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EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. 



The excursions for this month should be made for the purpose of securing data 

 for the exercises mentioned in the other subjects. 



The pupils of this group of classes should do practical work in compounding fertil- 

 izers for their contest plats, and to get as much practice as possible they should go in 

 groups from one boy's home to another's to assist in compounding the fertilizers. 

 The fertilizers to be used in the school garden should be compounded by the club 

 members in the presence of the entire school and for its benefit. 



All seed-testing devices should be prepared this month, and the seed to be tested 

 assembled for the purpose. 



FEBRUARY. 



LANGUAGE LESSONS. 



Compositions on the value of seed testing should be required. A most valuable 

 exercise for the advanced pupils and club members would be to collect, classify, 

 and record the agricultural statistics of the school district. Let this show what was 

 produced the previous year, what kept on the farm, what sold, and what bought. 

 This will not only give valuable practice in systematic work but will furnish the 

 school and community with valuable information as to its agricultural status. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



The following are suggested for supplementary reading: Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 134, 

 Tree Planting on School Grounds; 181, Pruning; 218, School Gardens; 236, Incu- 

 bation and Incubators; 243, Fungicides and Their Use in Preventing Diseases of 

 Fruits; 255, The Home Vegetable Garden; 389, Bread and Bread Making; 428, 

 Testing Farm Seeds in the Home and in the Schools; 491, The Profitable Manage- 

 ment of the Small Orchard on the General Farm; Bureau of Entomology Circular 

 No. 54, Peach Tree Borer; and Bureau of Plant Industry Yearbook Reprint No. 197, 

 How Birds Affect Orchards. 



List and assign the new words as spelling lessons. 



DRAWING. 



Require pupils to bring to school specimens of all kinds of domestic plants affected 

 by fungus diseases and make drawings of these, showing the appearance of the affected 

 part. Require drawings of cuttings, proper and improper pruning (fig. 6), methods 

 of grafting, pruning and grafting implements; also drawings of spraying devices. 

 In connection with all these emphasize learning the names and the uses. 



Study the origin and development of the school-gardening movement, noting 

 especially the purposes, the results that have been obtained, and its future possi- 

 bilities in advancing the interests of the community, both as to vitalizing the school 

 work and as a source of revenue for school enterprises. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



Study the relationship of the agricultural products of your county and State to 

 the industrial development of the same. Compare your own State in this respect 

 with other States and countries having similar agricultural products. If there is a 

 difference in the industrial development in any of the cases noted let it be 

 accounted for. 



