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THE FARM AND THE MARKET. 



with the book answers to questions, but will assign other questions 

 that can be answered only from material at school or at home. 

 Whenever possible the question should be in the form of a problem 

 requiring practical work before it can be answered. 



}. Some member of the class may be given a special topic, such as 

 "the conflict between the farmer and nature." Farmers battling 

 against weeds, pests, floods, droughts, storms, and diseases are sug- 

 gestive points. The discussion of a topic should be entirely original 

 the result of direct observation. 



4. In order to save time and enable pupils to get the clearest possible 

 ideas on vital problems, it is advisable to correlate related subjects to 

 agriculture. We must remember that we are not teaching certain 

 school subjects merely, but are training future citizens : Subject matter 

 organized on a rather artificial basis at best and placed into certain 

 pigeon holes we call textbooks can always be reenforced and made 

 dynamic if approached from several different points of view in the 

 same discussion period. The Agricultural Educational Monthly, 

 published by the United States Department of Agriculture and sent 

 free to all who desire it, has been giving detailed directions on how 

 best to connect with agriculture related school subjects such as his- 

 tory, literature, geography, botany, geology, and chemistry. 



REFERENCES 



Handbook of Nature Study. Comstock. 

 Nature Study and Life. Hodge. 

 Animals and Man. Kellogg. 



