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CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 27 



EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. 



Visits should be made to places in the community affording opportunities for the 

 studying of hotbeds, cold frames, and their structure and use. 



The months of April and May should be devoted to planting contest crops and germ- 

 inating plants for the purpose of transplanting later. 



LANGUAGE LESSONS. 



The closing days of school are generally used preparing exercises for the final public 

 entertainments. These exercises should be full of the subject of agriculture. Let 

 all the selections rendered touch upon some phase of agriculture. This will be an 

 opportunity for the teacher to show in a public way what the school can do for the 

 community in connection with its most important enterprise. 



READING AND SPELLING. 



The following are suggested for correlation reading: Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 132, 

 Insect Enemies of Growing Wheat; 426, Canning Peaches on the Farm; 447, Bees; and 

 521, Canning Tomatoes in the Home and in Club Work. 



The same plan with regard to the spelling exercises should be followed as in other 

 months. 



DRAWING AND HISTORY. 



Same as in April. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



Study birds of the State with regard to habits of migration. Compare those that 

 migrate and those that do not as to their agricultural economy. Study insects and 

 fungus diseases of the State as to kinds, localities infested, and the influence they 

 have on the kinds and yields of crops. 



ARITHMETIC. 



Develop problems on cost of terracing, estimated saving of terraces, cost of open 

 ditches, cost of blind ditches, and problems involving the relative values of blind and 

 open ditches with reference to original cost, saving in cultivatable ground, time in 

 cultivation, keeping open ditch clear of weeds, etc. Multiply problems on the econ- 

 omy of birds in destroying weed seeds, insects, and insect eggs. (See Yearbook Re- 

 print No. 443, Does it Pay Farmers to Protect Birds? Also Farmers' Bulletin No. 187, 

 Drainage of Farm Land.) 



CORRELATION SUPPLEMENTS. 



REFERENCES. 



Let each school provide itself with the publications of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture mentioned in this scheme and arrange them 

 according to subjects in a permanent place in the school building. 

 These publications may be had as long as the supply lasts by apply- 

 ing to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Each school should write to the State college of agriculture asking 

 that its name be listed to receive such matter printed by the college 

 and the experiment station connected with it as is of value in the 

 school work. 



