8 BULLETIN 132, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGKICULTURE. 



NOVEMBER. 



LANGUAGE LESSONS. 



The farm stock, poultry, and implements, the roads to school, to church, and to the 

 local market should provide material for conversation for the younger pupils. For 

 the slightly more advanced pupils oral and vmtten narrations on the foregoing sub- 

 jects should be required. For the still more advanced pupils written descriptions of 

 different breeds of poultry and stock and the farm implements should constitute the 

 work. The condition of the roads to the county courthouse and to the principal 

 county market should also provide material for written work. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



The following are suggested for supplementary work in reading for this month: 

 November, Alice Cary; How the Leaves Come Down, Susan Coolidge; The Flight of 

 the Birds, E. 0. Stedman; Hunting Song, Coleridge; Cotton, Zitella Cocke; The 

 Farmers' Gold, Edward Everett; Indian Corn, Edward Eggleston; and To a Mouse, 

 Robert Burns. 



List and assign the new words that appear in the correlation work of this month. 

 Among these should be found such as follow: Poultry, chicken, duck, goose, turkey, 

 egg, feathers, color, horse, swine, sheep, breed, calf, roads, market, produce, progress. 



DRAWING. 



Drawing for this month should consist of outlines of eggs, different kinds of poultry, 

 farm animals, simple farm implements, split-log drag, etc. 



A history of marketing the community crops should be prepared consisting of such 

 items as the following: Places at which sold, prices obtained, manner of transporting, 

 condition of roads, cost of marketing, etc. For the more advanced pupils of this 

 group a history of the methods of county road working, past and present road laws, 

 should be studied. The extent to which the growing of crops in the different parts 

 of the county has been affected by roads should be studied. A comparison of the 

 home county with adjoining counties where conditions are better or worse should be 

 made. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



A study of the effect of elevation on the maturing of crops should be made in the 

 school district and in the adjoining districts. The excursions for this month should 

 be made to include observations of fields of different elevations to note the effect. A 

 study should be made also of the influence of elevation on the kinds of crops that the 

 community is able to grow. This study should be extended through the county and 

 to the adjoining counties for the benefit of the more advanced pupils. 



ARITHMETIC. 



A profitable exercise for beginners is to have them count the number of farm imple- 

 ments, stock, poultry, and things of like character at their homes and report the same 

 to the teacher in class. By finding totals of each variety or class and of all farm ani- 

 mals and implements many exercises may be developed. For the more advanced 

 pupils problems as to the cost of marketing crops on good and bad roads, taking into 

 account the time, the size of the loads, and the life of wagons should be developed. 

 Problems on the effect of good and bad roads on the price of land should be made. 

 As a basis for these exercises values in different communities where roads are good or 

 bad should be taken into consideration. It would be well during this month to 

 develop problems on the cost of planting fruit trees and the value of their yields. 



