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BULLETIN 281, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



school fair for the local newspapers. Conversations in which pupils 

 tell without interruption about some process, trip, or other experience 

 should alternate with written exercises. 



Have members of the class write formal invitations to adults 

 requesting them to attend the school fair. Send requests for bulle- 

 tins, score cards, and other material needed soon. 



Reading and sjJelling.—HesLd inspirational and seasonal supple- 

 mentary selections, as: The Farmers Gold — Edward Everett; Black 

 Beauty — Sewall; The Corn Song — Whittier; The Apple — Burroughs; 

 The Horse Fair — Baldwin: Hiawatha's Brothers — Longfellow. 



Readings in practical agriculture may be found in Farmers' Buls. 

 51, Standard Varieties of Chickens; 287, Poultry Management: 313. 

 Harvesting and Storing Corn; 574, Poultry House Construction. 



Fig. 



-Evidences of strong and weak constitutions. Selected by Animal Husbandry Division, 

 Bureau of Animal Industrv. 



Also use State bulletins and periodicals on suitable topics. Drill on 

 words misspelled in written exercises and on new words in reading. 



Arithmetic. — Make out with accuracy and neatness statements of 

 cost and income to accompany the report on the club work. Ride 

 columns with care and make figures plain. Compute and order bill 

 of lumber needed for new poultry house or for remodeling, for nests 

 or other equipment. From the figures obtained from various crops 

 assign problems adapted to the advancement of the pupils. 



Geography . — Complete a local survey of the crops and the poultry 

 flocks of the district. Record this both on maps and on tabular 

 charts. Have pupils look up the extent of the trade in farm produce 

 for the State, at what poults sold eventually. Find also the origin 

 of gram and other farm produce imported from without the State. 



