12 BULLETIN 281, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



NOVEMBER. 



Practical and field exercises. — Visit storage plants for farm produce 

 if there are any in the section. Visit farms where the class may 

 inspect pure-bred poultry, cows and other animals. Observe also 

 the best methods of housing. Visit a club member's poultry house. 

 If any orchard work is done in the district this month have reports 

 made on this work. Pruning and scraping must be done before 

 spraying with lime-sulphur for San Jose scale. (See Farmers' Buls. 

 181 and 492.) This may be done at any time after the trees become 

 dormant except during freezing weather. Have apple-club members 

 inspect for the scale, and if present it should be treated at once. 

 Apple packing for market may be in order in some sections. Have 

 poultry houses cleaned, repaired, and sprayed this month. Rubbish 

 must be destroyed and vines and shrubs protected from the cold. 

 Certain trees and shrubs may be set out now. Cuttings made during 

 pruning of grape vines and many shrubs may be preserved in sand 

 until spring. (See Farmers' Buls. 157 and 471.) The teachers should 

 advise club members to do these things. Complete the collection of 

 soils, seeds, etc., for winter use. 



Language lessons. — Have reports ov field trips written with care 

 and when they are on the topic of the projects, incorporate them in 

 the booklets. Likewise, include descriptions of structures or oper- 

 ations observed or used. Have oral discussions along the lines 

 suggested in the practical exercises, trying to obtain from the pupils 

 clear descriptions in good English. 



Send letters to obtain bulletins, catalogues, tools, etc. Have the 

 class edit a school newspaper (not printed) dealing with the affairs of 

 the school and the club work of the district. Have this read in school 

 and send articles of merit to the local press. Thanksgiving suggests 

 many seasonal topics and is emphatically a rural festival. 



Reading and spelling. — Include in the supplementary reading 

 selections like Walden Pond — Thoreau; November Woods — H. H. 

 Jackson; Farming — Emerson's Essays; The Twenty-third Psalm; 

 Descriptions from Audubon's Writings; November — Alice Carey. 

 Look up the story of Johnny Apple-seed in Hillis' "The Quest of 

 John Chapman." 



Continue reading in bulletins suggested for October and add 

 Farmers' Buls. 154, The Home Fruit Garden; 491, The Small Apple 

 Orchard; 492, Enemies of the Apple; 528, Hints to Poultry Raisers; 

 562, Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs. Also use State publications 

 from all sources and farm papers on related topics. 



Keep a list of words posted which shall include agricultural terms 

 used in the reading texts, also words which have been misspelled or 

 mispronounced. Have spelling exercises, both written and oral, on 



