22 BULLETIN 132, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



JANUARY. 



LANGUAGE LESSONS. 



Reports of field observations. Prepare systems of crop rotation adapted to your 

 section. Write description of seed testers and methods of testing the vitality of 

 seeds. Letters ordering material for seed testers and garden stakes or submitting 

 bills of material should be written. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



The following are suggested for correlation work in reading this month: Farmers' 

 Bulletins Nos. 185, Beautifying the Home Grounds; 213, Raspberries; 347, Repair of 

 Farm Equipment; 375, Care of Food in the Home; 389, Bread and Bread Making; 

 408, School Exercises in Plant Production; 468, Forestry in Nature Study; 511, 

 Farm Bookkeeping; and 538 and 539, On Citrus Growing in the Gulf States. 



List and assign the new words and terms of an agricultural character appearing in 

 the correlation exercises of the month. 



DRAWING. 



Have each pupil lay out his plat in the school garden and show in the diagram 

 the location of each vegetable to be planted, indicating the rows or beds by name. 

 Require drawings of all garden devices, such as stakes, tools, etc. During this month 

 seed-testing boxes or cases should be planned and drawings made to a scale. 



HISTORY. 



Study the relationship of the agricultural products of the State and section to the 

 political history of the State and country. Let this study begin with the settle- 

 ment of the country and extend to the present. Emphasize the importance of the 

 relationship by connecting particular crops with striking historical events and legis- 

 lative enactment. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



Study and compare the forms of government, the prevailing customs, the religions, 

 the classes of people and their personal characteristics in the different parts of your 

 own State, in other States, and in other countries having agricultural industries sim- 

 ilar to that of your own State and section. 



ARITHMETIC. 



At the beginning of the new year the older pupils, and especially the club mem- 

 bers, should he encouraged to open books for the purpose of keeping accounts of 

 the outlay and income of the farms of the community. Separate pages should be 

 set apart for each farm crop and enterprise, providing both credit and debit columns. 

 Each domestic animal should be assigned a page with credit and debit columns. If 

 it is not an animal that labors or supplies some product for immediate consumption, 

 and is not disposed of during the year, its credit column should show the increase 

 in weight or value at the market price. Club members should open books and keep 

 accurate records of their enterprises for the year. 



Practice problems in determining the value of elements in fertilizers of given 

 formulas, in the cost of compounding fertilizers of given formulas, and in determining 

 the value of the time consumed in compounding fertilizers, should be developed. 

 Data for the foregoing should be secured by visiting local warehouses or farms and 

 examining the formulas found on the sacks of the various brands. Compare the cost 

 of the home-mixed products with that of the commercial brands of the same formulas 

 and note the saving, if any, by home mixing. Practice pupils in interpreting the 

 fojinulas on fertilizer sacks. 



