APPENDIX H 

 SUPPLIES 



The farm and garden are the natural laboratories for agri- 

 cultural work, and all work indoors should seek to explain and 

 to interpret outdoor problems. The value of laboratory work 

 in school depends vitally on how it is connected with real life. 

 It must justify itself, not merely by the construction of neat 

 and accurate notebooks or by providing for the actual handling 

 of farm materials, but by its service to the pupils and to the 

 community. 



Agriculture should be regarded as essentially an industrial 

 subject, and its study should be approached largely from the 

 industrial side the side of productive activity. 



Many of the most valuable supplies for the successful teach- 

 ing of Elementary Agriculture can be obtained from the local 

 farms, or village store, or they may be made by the pupils 

 themselves. Some supplies, however, cannot be secured in 

 this way, particularly if the course is to develop into an ex- 

 tensive one ; they must be purchased from a distance. 



The department of public instruction, or the agricultural 

 college of many states, supplies its own manual to the schools 

 free of charge. Helpful directions on various phases of school 

 agriculture have also been published by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. These also are free. A Unit of 

 Agriculture, by Elliff, published by Kow, Peterson and Com- 

 pany, and A Laboratory Manual of Agriculture, by Call and 

 Schafer, published by The Macmillan Company, are both teach- 

 able manuals. Both list the required equipment for their 

 exercises. 



The few supplies needed for Elementary Agriculture which 



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