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Most educators now agree with the 1905 National Educational 

 Association report on Industrial Education — "that the mastery 

 of such parts of this rapidly developing body of industrial know- 

 ledge as is within the capabilities of elementary and secondary 

 school pupils, furnishes a mental training unsurpassed in extent 

 and quality by the mastery of any other body of knowledge now 

 regarded as essential in our common school courses and requiring 

 an equal amount of time; and that for utility value it is not 

 equalled by any other body of knowledge at present acquired 

 through the expenditure of the same amount of time and effort." 



Agriculture is a regular part of the Indiana high-school course 

 of study since the last legislature passed a law to that effect. 

 The corn shows and Purdue University excursions of the last 

 three years in this country have at least put all of us in a favorable 

 attitude toward this work, and have emphasized the common 

 interests of the farmers and the schools. 



The following tells its own story of effort : 



Hendricks County Public Schools, Corn Contest, 1907 

 Corn Growing and Selection Contest. 



1. This contest is open to any school pupil in the county (common 

 school or high school pupil) who is regularly enrolled and doing creditable 

 work. Each pupil entering must present a statement from his teacher 

 certifying that the above conditions are fully complied with. 



2. All corn must be grown upon land owned or leased by the pupil's 

 father. No land must be leased especially for this purpose. 



3. Enough pure seed corn will be furnished each pupil (or the pupils of 

 one family) to plant one acre of corn. But if pupils prefer they may pro- 

 cure their own seed. Application for seed should reach the county 

 superintendent by April 1. 



4. Where there are two or more pupils in one family, who enter this 

 contest, they may plant just one acre and work together in growing the 

 corn. 



5. Each pupil who receives seed for this contest must exhibit twenty 

 ears in the corn show at Danville, December 7, 1907. 



6. The corn exhibited at the corn show will become the property of the 

 Trustees' Association, and may be sold at auction or otherwise used in the 

 interests of corn work in the county. 



7. Boys who enter this contest will be expected to do their own work 

 of growing an acre of corn. Girls will only be required to supervise the 

 growing of the corn. Neither boys nor girls will be allowed to receive help 

 in selecting the twenty ears for the com show. 



8. All entering this contest must make a special study of the corn plant, 

 and submit a record of how the corn was grown. 



