6 PREFACE 



to the subject-matter which they follow, as well as a 

 close relation to farm life. Most of these problems were 

 prepared by Professor Hatch of the University of Wis- 

 consin, to whom we make grateful acknowledgment. 



The lessons are arranged in the order of actual farm 

 operations and interests, during a year on the farm, 

 and the teacher in the public schools may easily adapt 

 them to local needs, beginning with any month of the 

 year. The seasonal sequence of subject matter in school 

 agriculture is both pedagogical and practical. Illustra- 

 tive material is easily obtained, the interest of the pupils 

 is at once awakened, and cooperation with the farm ac- 

 tivities of the community is natural and inevitable. 



THE AUTHOR. 



