CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN STATES. 9 



tural, industrial, and social development, and others take up these 

 matters as a part of each epoch. Nearly every modern geography 

 devotes much space to soils, crops, animals, the food supply, and 

 farming as an industry. The public library usually has many help- 

 ful reference books on travel, invention, industries, as well as histo- 

 ries and geographies. The supplementary geographical readers and 

 texts in history, physical geography, etc., loaned by the nearby high 

 school will give ample reference texts. Sample copies of textbooks 

 are usually found at the school. Personal inquiry will discover other 

 sources of information. 



Drawing. — Sketching, design, and color work may include corn 

 subjects, weeds, fruit, and insects. Working drawings of any appa- 

 ratus used in school or at home in connection with the month's lesson 

 may be needed. 



Physiology. — Food values of crops raised locally is a timely topic. 

 See Farmers' Bui. 121, legumes; 142, general; 295, potatoes; 298, 

 corn; 359 and 521, on canning; 375, care in home; 565, corn meal. 

 Plant food and animal food as related to current physiology lessons 

 should be considered. (See Brewer's Rural Hygiene, especially on 

 local problems of fall sanitation.) 



Manual training. — Make corn-drying racks, exhibit shelves and 

 window boxes. Can tomatoes and other vegetables and fruit. Braid 

 husk mats and baskets. Take up tender plants into pots and boxes. 



OCTOBER. 



Practical exercises and field trips. — Visit a contest area, measure the 

 plat, weigh and judge the crop. Keep data for future problems. 

 Visit flocks of high-grade poultry, especially flocks with good records 

 for laying. Gather soils and store away in boxes or pails for future 

 lessons on soils and for germination plats or shallow boxes in early 

 spring. Help club members close up their projects ready for a report. 

 Examine modern harvesting machinery while on trips. Have mem- 

 bers store garden produce, take up tender bulbs and roots, destroy 

 weeds and rubbish which may harbor insects or disease. Select lay- 

 ing flock of poultry and begin fattening for market the fow^ which 

 are not desired for laying. Club members who now plan to raise 

 crops next year will do well to plow land this month. (Fig. 2.) 



Hold the school fan this month if it was not held in September. 

 (See Supplement I.) Much of the practical work of this month will 

 be done by the pupils at home. Teachers should consult Farmers' 

 Bui. 562, The Organization of Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs. 



Language lessons. — Write out with care the reports on the club 

 contests or project work just, completed. Complete the booklet for 

 corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and other projects. Make out new appli- 

 cations for club projects soon to begin. Write a description of the 

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