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Vol. 10 May, 1914 No. 5 



The Exhibition of Rural School Work 



Anna Botsford Comstock 



A nature-study exhibit from rural schools is certainly as interest- 

 ing as it is encouraging, for the place where nature-study can do its 

 greatest good is surely in the rural schools. Such an exhibit 

 brought cheer to the Cornell nature-study contingent during 

 Farmers' Week, 19 14. 



Farmers' Week is the one week of the year when the farmers 

 of New York State own the Agricultural College of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. Thousands of them gather at these meetings and all 

 regiilar instruction is suspended. Professors and students all are 

 hosts to the visitors that flock in from the farms. There are also 

 lectures by experts and conferences of special organizations, all 

 conducing to make it a week of great benefit to those who wish to 

 learn the latest ideas about farming. 



During this week the corn and potato exhibits from the rural 

 schools are sent in. For a year Mr. Edward M. Tuttle, through 

 correspondence and the Rural School Leaflets, has been organizing 

 and planning the corn exhibit for this year, with the remarkable 

 result that 892 schools responded with one of the most beautiful 

 and gratifying exhibits that the writer has ever seen. 



It was as late as December when Miss Alice G. McCloskey, 

 editor of the Rural School Leaflet, sent letters to the District 

 Superintendents asking them if they had any nature-study ma- 

 terial to send in for Farmers' Week. Since nothing had been said 

 of this before. Miss McCloskey did not expect a large amount of 



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