20 BULLETIN" 385, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the milk. The handling of the milk and cleaning utensils twice a day 

 was figured at one hour a day for a small herd^ while the care of the 

 cow, feeding, preparing feed, cleaning cow and barn averaged about 

 20 minutes each day per cow. 



If the cost accounts, labor, milk records, and butter fat computa- 

 tions are used in school problems, there would seem to be reason to 

 give full credit for the time spent even in routine work. It would 

 obviously not be desirable to give the same credit for a second season 

 on such a project. 



SUMMARY. 



1. The home farm may be the logical laboratory for practical work 

 connected with rural school agriculture. Home work carried on for 

 this purpose may properly be given school credit just as home study 

 of arithmetic gains credit. 



2. The relative importance of a project from the school point of 

 view depends upon its relation to school study; the amount of edu- 

 cation involved; the improvement of the pupil in skill, method, or 

 knowledge; the results or relative success measured partly by crops 

 or profits; and the reports, essays, exhibits, and other evidence given 

 at school. 



3. The weight given should recognize, besides the educational fac- 

 tors, the period covered by the project; the hours of labor involved 

 and the relative difficulty; the evidence of good management; the 

 emergencies met and pests combated; and the success of adults in 

 the same line of work during the same season. 



4. The rank should depend on evidences of honest endeavor and 

 thoughtful application of instructions. 



5. Both weight and rank should be based upon the usual methods 

 of ranking and crediting school subjects. Manual practice should 

 not receive too much or too little relative recognition. 



6. Until local records are compiled and analyzed from boys' and 

 girls' projects, it will be best to use the most available records of man 

 labor, modified as to relative difficulty, number of new operations 

 involved, and other factors. These estimates may be gradually 

 modified as experience is gained. The educational feature should 

 always be kept in mind. 



