ELEMEXTAEY AGKICULTUEE FOE ALABAMA SCHOOLS. KT 



Recipes for special curing. — Salt pork, sugar-cured hams and 

 bacon, dry-cured hams, headcheese, pickled feet, lard, and sausage. 



Class assignment. — Give the class notes from Farmers' Buls. 183 

 and 391 ; Alabama Experiment Station Bui. 166. 



Practical exercises. — (1) Pig-club members can get practice in 

 dressing their own pigs. (2) Have pupils report in writing the 

 practice at their homes as to dressing, keeping, and curing meat. 



Correlations. — Language : Written work is provided in " Practical 

 exercise 2.'" Arithmetic : Have pupils report weights of their butch- 

 ered pigs. Find the total weight of meat produced in the community, 

 the average amount per family, and the value of the total amount 

 produced. See United States Department of Agriculture Bui. 132, 

 p. 39, for exercises in arithmetic. 



LESSON EIGHT. 



SUBJECT : FARM IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY — ROADS. 



Class assignment. — Duggar's, pp. 333-340. Supplement the lesson 

 with notes from Farmers' Buls. 270, 347, and 597. 



Practical exercises. — (1) The teacher should take the class to a 

 farm well equipped with machinery or to a hardware store. Make 

 lists of the various farm implements and note their uses. The teacher 

 should secure the cooperation of the farmer or the hardware mer- 

 chant in this work. Under the direction of the farmer or merchant 

 take down and set up a rather complicated machine. (2) Secure the 

 cooperation of the patrons and grade the school-ground walks. After 

 grading the walks dress them with a layer of gravel, chert, shells, or 

 cinders. 



Correlations. — Language: Copy the list of farm implements in the 

 class notebooks. Drawing: Outline a split-log drag. Geography: 

 Locate on the county map the principal public highways. Locate on 

 the State map the counties that have good roads. History: What 

 has the county done for the improvement of roads? What system of 

 keeping the roads in condition is in vogue? How have improved 

 roads affected the price of land in the country? Arithmetic: Make a 

 survey of the farm tools and implements in the community. Find 

 their value. What was the amount of the road-bond issue in the 

 county? How many miles of road were constructed? What was the 

 average eosl per mile? Find the cost of split-log and plank drags 

 described in Farmers' I>ul. 597. 



