cotton, the production of cloth, etc. Write to the Keystone View Co , Meadvilie, Penn., for 

 catalogue and prices. Sets of views may be gradually gotten together illustrating the work 

 of each grade and the instruments passed from grade to grade as they are needed. Upon 

 pieces of heavy cardboard arrange collections to show in various stages of manufacture wool, 

 silk, cotton and linen, obtaining the materials from the various manufacturers. Wool and 

 woolen cloth in various stages of manufacture may be secured from the Clinton Woolen Mills, 

 Clinton, Mich. Similar collections to show the stages in the manufacture of thread and 

 needles will prove of value and interest. These may be obtained from J. and P. Coats, the 

 Spool Cotton Co., N. Y. City. 



The spring work is calculated to get the child interested in the agricultural work strongly 

 recommended for the fourth grade and is preparatory to this. Small beds that are worked in 

 common should be laid out in the school garden and planted with corn, wheat, oats, rye, 

 barley, buckwheat, potatoes, flax and cotton. Individual beds may also be assigned to each 

 pupil, providing there is sufficient ground available and the following plants grown from the 

 seed for the use of the same pupils in the fall work of the fourth grade: turnips, kohlrabi, 

 cabbage, brussels' sprouts, kale, cauliflower, beets, onions, radishes, parsnips and carrots. 

 If the individual beds must be small these vegetables may be distributed. A bed of peanuts 

 will prove of interest and one of sweet potatoes may well be added. One corner of the garden 

 or of the school grounds might be set apart as a nursery for fruit and nut trees, including the 

 horse chestnut. The young trees should be labeled, carefully cared for and eventually set 

 out about the sohool grounds and homes of the children. Children can not be depended upon 

 to properly care for the garden during the summer vacation although they should be en- 

 couraged to give it some attention. The school board should be importuned to make this a 

 part of the regular duty of the janitor of the building, even if he is employed only during the 

 school months of the year. 



If the children do not appear to have grown tired of the daily weather observations of 

 the first two grades they may be continued and extended. The use of the colored circles has 

 probably served its purpose and may be dropped unless demanded by the interest of the 

 pupils. The curve to show graphically the rise and fall of the temperature, begun in the 

 spring of the preceding grade, may be continued to advantage throughout the third grade. 

 These charts may be made upon heavy manilla paper, with narrow vertical columns for the 

 days of the month and a simple design of the thermometer scale at the left hand margin. 

 The rainfall and snowfall may be measured and placed upon the chart according to some 

 simple scale, ten inches of snow being regarded as equal to one inch of rain. The charts 

 should be dated and preserved and as they accumulate those for the corresponding months of 

 previous years displayed for, purposes of comparison. Note the connection between changes 

 in temperature and precipitation. Since pastoral man in caring for his flocks at night had 

 unusual opportunity for studying the stars, a few simple constellations may be taught the 

 children at this stage. 



HELPFUL LITERATURE. 



1. Nature Study and Life Hodge. Outlines and many helpful suggestions. 



2. Longman's Object Lessons Salmon and Woodhull. Outlines. 



3. Handbook of Nature Study Lange. Outlines. 



4. Nature Study Jackman. Skin, p. 102; earthworm, p. 303; soils, pp. 390 and 436; meteorological and 



astronomical suggestions throughout. 



5. Domesticated Animals Shater. Scribner's Sons, 1895. 



6. The Horse Flower. Appleton & Co., 1901. 



7. Black Beauty Sewell. Varidus publishers. 



8. Four-Footed Americans Wright. Macmillan & Co. 



9. Wild Animals I have Knowttr'-Seton-Thompspn. Scribner's Sons, 1900. 



10. Lives of the Hunted Seton-T.hompson. Scribner's Sons, 1901. Krag, the Kootenay Ram. 



11. The Play of Animals Groos-Baldwin. Appleton & Co., 1898. 



12. Stories of Silk and Wool BriWn & Mayne. World's Events Pub. Co., 1905-6. 



13. Silk, its Origin, Culture and Bianufacture. Nonotuck Silk Co., 1902. 



14. Short Description of Silk and' Silk Manufacture Cheney Bros. 



15. Silkworm Culture Kelly. Farmers' Bulletin No. 165. 



16. Hand-Loom Weaving Todd. Rand, McNally & Co., 1902. 



17. Natural History Lessons Black & Carter. Holt & Co., 1892. 



1 8. The Cotton Plant True. U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1896. 



19. Yearbook of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, for 1903. Cotton, Silk, Corn. 



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