PART V 



HOME PROJECTS 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE 



Everywhere the demand is being made upon teachers of 

 agriculture to make their work practical. The ideas of prac- 

 tical agriculture are generally vague in the minds of those 

 advocating it, but they usually imply the idea of a plot of 

 ground or a "model farm" at the school. Until our present 

 scheme of school organization is changed, such a plan is not 

 practical or advisable. It is altogether practical work in 

 agriculture to learn, even from books, correct principles of 

 scientific agriculture. To apply these principles in agricul- 

 tural practice will strengthen the instruction and make the 

 knowledge surer." It is for the purpose of making as prac- 

 tical as possible, for the boys and girls of the public schools, 

 some of the principles of scientific agriculture, and of giving 

 direct vocational value to such work, that the following home 

 projects are outlined in detail. The topics for study relat- 

 ing to the projects will be found throughout the text. 



At the beginning of the course in agriculture, whatever 

 text-book may be used or course pursued, each student in the 

 class should choose one or more of the projects and carry it 

 through to the end of the course, or until the project is well 



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