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incubator. Have pupils draw those things they are about to use in 

 club work or prepare careful drawings for booklet. 



Physiology. — In connection with the plans for gardens and other 

 projects take up the subject of foods and*the desirability of variety 

 of vegetable and fruit foods. Show how the action of digestive fer- 

 ments renders available the starch in a germinating seed just as diges- 

 tive fluids act in animals. Chapters on "germination" in botany 

 explain this. 



Start spring sanitary campaign to clean out cellars, dispose of rub- 

 bish, clean up and dram breeding places for flies and mosquitoes. 

 See Farmers' Buls. 444, Remedies and Preventives Against Mos- 

 quitoes, p. 9; 459, House Flies; 535, Sugar and its Use as Food. 



Manual training. — Make brood nests, "broody" coops, transplant- 

 ing boxes, wooden garden labels. Repair cold frames and other 

 equipment. Make suitable sample crates for shipping eggs sold by 

 club members of the class. 



APRIL. 



Practical and field exercises. — Have suitable trips or demonstrations 

 to illustrate methods of hatching and early brooding of chickens, also 

 how to "break up" broody hens. Demonstrate transplanting of 

 tomatoes and other plants started in the cold frames. Have the plow- 

 ing and harrowing done for the club fields, except for late crops. 

 Have a garden and crops survey of the district. Keep record of the 

 returning birds, their habits and food. Plan and begin work on the 

 improvement of the school grounds. Have pupils prepare bird houses. 

 Plant out fruit trees, also shade trees around the home or the school- 

 house. Plan for next fall's exhibit before crops are planted. 



Language lessons. — Continue written reports. Make records of all 

 processes on the club work and any other projects. Such topics as 

 the early care of chickens, starting my tomato plants, the birds about 

 my home, are good topics. A tree-planting exercise gives rise to suit- 

 able language work. Have pupils write about the needs of the dis- 

 trict and the possible remedies hi view of the studies made. Strive 

 for good conversational as well as written English. 



Reading and spelling. — Select suitable readings, as That Calf — Alice 

 Carey; The Barefoot Boy — Whittier; South Wind and Sun — Riley; 

 The Song of the Sower — Bryant; April — H. H. Jackson; In the Heart 

 of a Seed — Brown; The Bluebird — Emily Miller; Solomon and the 

 Bees — Saxe. 



Farmers' Buls. 154, The Home Fruit Garden; 195, Annual Flower- 

 ing Plants; 287, Poultry Management; 537, Growing an Acre of Corn; 

 585, Incubation; 594, Shipping Eggs by Parcel Post; 597, The Road 

 Drag and How It is Used; 609, Bird Houses and How to Make Them ; 

 617, School Lessons on Corn; 624, Natural and Artificial Brooding of 



