BULLETIN OF THE 



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No. 132 



Contribution from the Office of Experiment Stations, A. C. True, Director 

 January 21, 1915. 



CORRELATING AGRICULTURE WITH THE PUBLIC- 

 SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



By C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education and E. A. Miller, Assistant 



in Agricultural Education. 



PURPOSE OF THE BULLETIN. 



The club movement that is taking hold of the young life of our 

 country promises to afford the teacher a most potent means of vital- 

 izing the everyday work of the school. The problems of securing 

 the interest of the pupil in the common-school branches, of teaching 

 in an effective way farm economy, and of gaining the abiding inter- 

 est of the school patrons seem to have in a large measure their solu- 

 tion in the correlation of agriculture with the Common-school branches 

 by means of boys' and girls' clubs. It is the purpose of what follows 

 to suggest some ways and means by which the rural or public-school 

 teacher may utilize clubs in correlating agriculture and farm-life 

 problems with the regular school work. 



In setting forth this correlation scheme the public-school classes 

 are divided into two groups, the first group including grades one to 

 five, and the second group including grades six to eight. This 

 division is made for two reasons. In the first place, very few active 

 club members will be found in the first group of grades, and the club 

 influence in correlating the work with them will be largely incidental, 

 while with the second group, in which most of the club membership 

 will be found, the influence should be direct. In the second place, 

 the incentives that stimulate pupils of the ages usually found in the 

 first group are quite different from those that affect the pupils found 

 in the second group. That is to say, pupils below the age of 12 are 

 influenced more by imaginative and cultural stimuli, whereas pupils 

 above that age and usually found in the sixth, seventh, and eighth 

 grades are appealed to more strongly by economic incentives. 



Note.— This bulletin is prepared especially for the use of rural school teachers in the Southern States. 

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