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soned about; operations, many in number and of an extremely 

 practical nature, should be performed. General rules, statements 

 or ideas may follow fresh handling of concrete detail, they 

 should seldom precede it. 



b. Responsibility. Active relationship to real life, and per- 

 sistent participation in farming affairs while the student is yet 

 in school, should be fundamental aims. Methods should be devel- 

 oped, therefore, which involve student ownership and home co- 

 operation. 



G. Gradation of Farming Activities or Projects. a. First- 

 year projects. 1 --The first year should deal mainly with proj- 

 ects which involve an elementary knowledge of soils and plant 

 life, together with the mathematics related thereto. Kitchen 

 garden vegetables and flowering plants should be grown. 



b. Second-year Projects. Certain second-year projects 

 should involve extensive experimental study of agricultural 

 botany; others should involve the scientific principles and the 

 mathematics necessary for successful work in handling the 

 smaller farm animals,. such as poultry, pigs and bees. 



c. Third-year Projects. Fruit-growing and market-garden- 

 ing projects should receive chief attention in the third year. 

 The first principles of agricultural chemistry and the manipu- 

 lation of the laboratory apparatus required fqr their elucida- 

 tion should be mastered. Some attention should be given to the 

 mathematics required for field surveys, for business transac- 

 tions and for figuring the cost of producing and marketing the 

 crops under consideration. A careful study should be made of 

 the pumps, engines and other mechanical devices necessary for 

 spraying. 



d. Fourth-year Projects. The major projects of the fourth 

 year should deal with animal husbandry, including dairying. 

 There should be one term of advanced agricultural chemistry. 

 Here the greatest maturity in age and mental grasp have been 

 attained. The largest money values are here involved, and the 

 most difficult problems of land fertility, rotation of crops, ra- 

 tions, breeding and animal diseases are here to be finally dealt 

 with. Farm management, law of contracts and farm accounts 

 should be studied. 



1 The word "project," as here used, is defined in chapter V. 



