CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN STATES. 7 



descriptions. Have the summer experiences written up fully for 

 each club project, not as a language lesson first, but for its content, 

 and then revise. Have the pupils write and mail requests for bulle- 

 tins needed, also for periodicals and catalogues. Have written such 

 parts of the report on project work as are due at this time. Do a 

 part of the work on the booklet to correspond with the field progress. 

 (See Supplement on Booklets, No. VIII.) 



Reading and spelling. — Use those selections in the supplementary 

 reading books which are rural in their bearing and which are seasonal. 

 Utilize also the best selections available in other books. The teacher 

 may well read some of these for the entire school. Among those 

 possible for September will be found Maize — Fosdick; The Legend of 



Fig. 1.— Desirable ear of corn. Selected by the Division of Corn Investigations, Bureau of Plant 



Industry. 



Maize (in Hiawatha) — Longfellow; Eyes and No Eyes — Kingsley; 

 Happy the Man— Pope; To a Waterfowl — Bryant; Evening at the 

 Farm — Trowbridge; Bob white — Cooper. Memorize the Country 

 Boy's Creed, by E. O. Grover. 



Of a more strictly agricultural nature select those periodicals and 

 bulletins which deal with the local conditions and the club activities 

 of the pupils. Farmers' Bulletins which may be needed include Nos. 

 229, The Production of Good Seed Corn; 415, Seed Corn; 537, How 

 to Grow an Acre of Corn; 578, The Making and Feeding of Silage; 

 617, School Lessons on Corn. 



Add to the regular spelling lists all the new words which appear in 

 the agricultural reading and especially those which are misspelled in 



