CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 25 



MARCH. 



LANGUAGE LESSONS. 



Reports of field observations, compositions on the value of clubs to the members, 

 the schools, and the community, and the influence of clubs on increased production 

 and on home economy. Letters of correspondence between club members of different 

 schools. Record of practical work. Debate: The Boll Weevil is a Blessing in Dis- 

 guise. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



The following are suggested for supplementary correlation reading: Farmers' Bulle- 

 tins 205, Pig Management; 229, Production of Good Seed Corn; 241, Butter Making 

 on the Farm; 287, Poultry Management; 408, School Exercises in Plant Production; 

 417, Rice Culture; and 533, Good Seed Potatoes and How to Bed Them. 



List and assign new words for spelling exercises. 



DRAWING. 



Have each pupil prepare a drawing of his home farm, locating buildings, yards, 

 barn lots, permanent pasture, orchards, streams, springs, woodland, roadways around 

 or through the farm, crops as planned for the year, the prize acres and plats, etc. 

 After an accurate outline has been drawn the map can be made attractive by filling 

 in with seed, fiber, pictures of fruit, stock, farm implements, flowers, and houses at 

 proper places on the map. On farms where a system of rotation is followed a set of 

 maps should be drawn representing the location of the crops for each year of the 

 course. 



Study the history of the agricultural-club movement in your State and in other 

 States. Collect and study data as to records of prize winners, methods employed 

 by them, and value of prizes and advertising received by the winners. Study the 

 systems of judging yields employed in your State and other States. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



Prepare a map of the United States and indicate the States in which there has been 

 club activity, the kinds of clubs, and prepare a statement in this connection showing 

 the influence of the club movement on the school and farm work of each State. Also 

 study the influence of clubs on increased production, crop marketing, home life, and 

 health . 



ARITHMETIC. 



Develop problems on the cost of farm fencing. Special attention should be given 

 to the cost of constructing temporary hog and poultry fences. Exercises in this phase 

 of the work should be developed for the benefit of the club members. Problems relat- 

 ing to the cost and value of grazing crops for hogs and poultry should be developed. 



EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. 



The time that can be devoted to excursions should be spent in visiting the different 

 club members' patches for the purpose of observing the methods and thoroughness of 

 preparation. 



Practical work for this month should consist in preparing plats and patches for 

 planting the contest crops. 



