ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE FOR ALABAMA SCHOOLS. 31 



LESSON SIX. 

 SUBJECT : HORTICULTURE. TOPICS: (l) SPRAYING CONTINUED ; (2) GARDENING. 



Spraying. — Continue spraying for San Jose scale, peach leaf curl, 

 brown rot, and apple scab. See February lesson on spraying. 



Spray apples, pears, and quinces for codling moth; plums and 

 peaches for curculio and rot; grapes for anthracnose, mildew, and 

 rot. For codling moth use 1 pound of dry arsenate of lead to 50 

 gallons of water, with an addition of 2 pounds of lime to make a 

 white spray. The same spray should be used for the curculio. 

 Spray grapes with Bordeaux mixture. 



Gardening. — Transplant peppers and cabbage. In the southern 

 part of the State set eggplants. Bed sweet potatoes. Plant in the 

 oj)en bush beans, Lima beans, cucumbers, okra, parsnips, and salsify. 



Class assignment.— Duggar's, pp. 258-260, 229-232, 185, 186, and 

 190. Supplement the lesson on sprays with notes from Alabama 

 Experiment Station Buls. 139 and 144; Circ. 1; Farmers' Buls. 284, 

 440, and 492. Supplement the lesson on gardening with timely notes 

 from Alabama Experiment Station Circ. 14, Parts I and II; 

 Farmers' Buls. 232, 255, and 289. 



Practical exercises. — (1) Continue the garden work on the school 

 or home plats (2) Tomato club members should keep their plats 

 thoroughly plowed and harrowed. Break up all clods and keep 

 down the growth of weeds. (3) Pupils that have no projects and are 

 not club members should be required to make written reports cover- 

 ing such points as the vegetables being planted at their homes, from 

 what they are reproduced, whether from seed, bulbs or tubers, and 

 how planted, whether in drills or on beds. 



Correlations. — Language: Reports on work with home or school 

 garden plats and work being done in the gardens at the homes of the 

 pupils provide suitable written work. Each pupil should be re- 

 quired to copy all such reports in the notebooks. Arithmetic: Based 

 upon the foregoing reports develop problems in connection with the 

 garden work of the month. Labor, seed, and fertilizers should be 

 taken into account. 



LESSON SEVEN. 



srnjKCT: small fruit, topic: setting stawberries. 



Planting. — Soil should have abundant humus and be supplied with 

 well-rotted manure; preparation should include thorough fall break- 

 ing and spring harrowing; plants should stand 2 feet apart, coots 

 should be well pruned, and the soil should be packed firmly about 

 them; crowns should not be covered. 



Varieties. — Excelsior for curly berries, EQondykeand LadyThomp- 

 bob for medium, A roma for Late. 



