SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS. 



1. Read from other texts the subject-matter treated 

 in these lessons. 



2. Collect beforehand the materials needed for the 

 practical exercises, and have everything ready for the 

 recitation. 



3. Ask the pupils to assist in collecting the materials, 

 and have them perform the experiments whenever 

 possible. 



4. Make many excursions for observations of farm- 

 ing methods. Bring the class to the material when the 

 material cannot be brought to the class. But always 

 obtain permission from the owner of the farm upon 

 which excursions are made. 



5. Have a school garden if possible. 



6. Write to your State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, the State College of Agriculture, and to the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., for 

 information, bulletins, and seeds. 



7. Require each pupil to keep a permanent agri- 

 cultural note-book in which to write a neat pen-and-ink 

 record of each lesson. The work of recording the re- 

 sults of the practical exercises gives the pupil some- 

 thing definite to do. 



8. Have the lesson in agriculture the last period of 



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