M'CLELLAN] A SUCCESSFUL OXE-ACRE GARDEN 329 



it was plowed. I also harrowed it three times before planting and 

 once afterward. 



I began cultivating just as soon as it was large enough. I 

 cultivated the corn four times with a four shovel walking culti- 

 vator. I laid it by with a six shovel riding cultivator about the 

 last of June. 



I did not have much trouble with the grasshoppers or the 

 cutworms, but I had a little trouble with the moles. 



We, harvested the corn about the twentieth of October. 

 Three of our neighbors came in and saw the land measured and 

 helped husk and weigh the corn. 



I have learned by this year's experience that you cannot 

 disc the ground too much before plowing. I believe in discing 

 thoroughly before plowing, because it helps to retain the moisture. 



I have picked out five bushels of choice seed com, which I 

 sold to a neighbor for $1.50 per bushel. I cribbed part of the 

 corn and we fed the rest to some pure bred Duroc Jersey hogs. 



I took fifteen ears to the County Fair, which I picked from 

 this field of corn, and won first, a premium of $5.00. I also took 

 thirty ears to the Farmers* Institute and won second, a premium 

 of $10.00. Then I won first on the acre yield for Page County, 

 the premium being $40.00 for this. 



So you see I have won plenty of money on my corn to take 

 me to the Ames Short Course and now I have some left to put 

 in the bank. — Dudley McClelland, Clarinda, Page County, Iowa, 

 age 14. 



Physical and Chemical Nature Study 



John Wilkes Shepherd. 



First Paper. 



As the title might indicate, physical and chemical nature study 

 deals with the materials that ordinarily are used in physics and 

 chemistry. But, since the aim and not the material determines 

 a subject of study, it is therefore possible for nature study and 

 these sciences to deal with the same materials. 



It is no longer necessary to discuss at length the aim and 

 method of nature study, because they are fairly well understood 

 and agreed to by all. It is now quite generally accepted that in 

 this subject children are to do work with things. This work with 

 things should be worth while to them both at the time they are 

 doing it and also at subsequent times. In other words, in nature 



