CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IX SOUTHERN STATES. 

 OCTOBER. 



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LANGUAGE LESSON'S. 



Reports of field observations. Compositions on modern methods of harvesting and 

 modern methods of preparing leading crops for market. Descriptions of observations 

 made at the school or county fair should be required. Letters to commercial people 

 asking for prices and offering products for sale should be written. Make a record of 

 practical work. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



The following are suggested for correlation reading: Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 113, 

 Harvesting and Storing Corn; 258, Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention; 292, 



Fig. 3.— School children visiting a club member's acre of corn, Elbert County Ga. 



Cost of Filling Silos; 354, Onion Culture; 408, School Exercises in Plant Production; 

 436, Winter Oats for the South; 548, Storing and Marketing Sweet Potatoes; 617, 

 School Lessons on Corn; and Bureau of Plant Industry Document No. 485, The 

 Selection of Cotton and Corn Seed for Southern Farms. 

 List and assign the new words for spelling exercises. 



DRAWING. 



Prepare outline plans of poultry and hog houses, cribs, silos, and dairy barns. Make 

 drawings of the less complicated harvesting machinery and the important parts of 

 the same. In this connection emphasize the learning of the names and uses of imple- 

 ments and their parts. 



65765°— Bull. 132—15 3 



