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and gas. Let them see the traffic of the city and the different 

 occupations represented; transportation, commerce and manu- 

 facturing; methods of transportation on lakes, rivers and canals; 

 on railroads and public highways. 



Discuss. 



Methods by which our mails are carried; distribution; dif- 

 ferent kinds of roads; effects of good and bad roads; on our 

 mail delivery, business, schools, health, transportation and civili- 

 zation. 



Study the relation between location and value of farms; 

 between fertility and value; between fruit, grain and stock 

 farms ; points that determine the value of land ; why some farms 

 are neglected or deserted ; study the laws of supply and demand ; 

 location of the best markets ; cost of production, transportation 

 and marketing ; study crop reports ; study the shortage of crops 

 and find the probable demand. 



Discuss plans whereby a boy could produce the greatest in- 

 come from an acre of ground ; a farmer on ten acres ; on twenty 

 acres ; on forty acres ; on eighty acres. 



Geography. 



Study the map and learn the location of the region produc- 

 ing each of our leading agricultural products ; study the states 

 that lead in the production of each ; explain causes for difference 

 in products; construct relief maps and product maps; arrange 

 a corn map, a map showing location of other staple products 

 and also an animal map; send to Washington to the department 

 of agriculture and ask for Crop Reports published by the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture which will show distribution of products 

 and give valuable statistics ; this will furnish supplementary 

 work correlated with Geography. 



Books. 



THE RURAL LIFE SERIES. 



1. Country Life and the Country School Carney, 8-12 Row, Peterson 

 & Co. 



2. Rural Wealth and Welfare Fairchild, 8-12 Macmillan Co., $1.25 



3. The Outlook to Nature Bail-ey, 8-12 Macmillan Co., $1.25. 



4. The State and the Farmer Bailey, 8-12 Macmillan Co.. 1.2.-). 



