26 BULLETIN 132, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



LANGUAGE LESSONS. 



Reports of field observations. Compositions on methods of growing given crops, 

 such as corn, potatoes, and tomatoes. The following points should be covered in 

 each composition: Preparation of soil, fertilization, cultivation, and harvesting. 

 Write letters to the State extension agent asking advice and information as to matters 

 pertaining to your club work. Make a record of practical work. Debate: "The corn- 

 club movement" has done more to increase the yield of corn in the State during the 

 last five years than any other one influence. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



For correlation reading the following are suggested: Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 54, 

 Some Common Birds; 220, Tomatoes; 372, Soy Beans; 414, Corn Cultivation; 431, 

 The Peanut; 458, The Best Two Sweet Sorghums for Forage; 459, House Fly; and 

 509, Forage Crops for the Cotton Regions. 



The usual method of listing and assigning words should be employed. 



DRAWING. 



During the months of April and May the pupils of this group should spend the time 

 to be devoted to drawing in gathering data and preparing a map of the school township 

 or district, showing the location of all public enterprises that touch upon farm life. 

 These will include the following: Principal and neighborhood roads, telephone line, 

 rural carriers' routes, church buildings, school buildings, railroads, railway stations, 

 sidetracks, community markets, if any, streams, mills, gins, etc. This map should 

 be so complete that it will show all the advantages and disadvantages of the township 

 or school district. Complete this map by locating the homes of the boys and girls 

 who belong to the clubs and have contest plats. 



During the months of April and May, or the closing month of the school, special 

 attention should be given to the study of the histories of crops or breeds of animals to 

 be grown by the club members, laying special emphasis on the degree of success with 

 which each has been produced and the conditions that have obtained in connection 

 therewith. It will be especially important to study the methods of preparing seed 

 beds, of fertilizing, of planting, and of cultivating that have been employed in the 

 past, to determine with what success these methods have been employed and to what 

 extent they should be used by the club members. This study should be extended 

 to methods of feeding poultry and swine, noting especially the success of the different 

 methods and the conditions that obtained in each case. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



Prepare a map of the State, indicating thereon by distinguishing marks the different 

 classes of schools teaching agricultural sciences. Continue this study to the Nation 

 and to other countries and determine as nearly as possible the effect that such insti- 

 tutions have had on agricultural advancement and how agricultural conditions have 

 affected the work of the schools. 



ARITHMETIC. 



Develop problems on crop rotation, estimating the value of the same in soil improve- 

 ment and in saving in the cost of fertilizers. Plan rotations especially adapted to the 

 needs of the corn and pig club members, based on proper rotation principles, and at 

 the same time providing feed and grazing for hogs. Develop exercises based on the 

 foregoing for work in the arithmetic classes. 



