UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



i BULLETIN No. 653 MX® 



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Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director. 



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Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER. 



February 12, 1918 



LESSONS ON CORN FOR RURAL ELEMENTARY 



SCHOOLS. 



By C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Need of study of corn in schools 1 



Lesson 1 1 



II 2 



III 3 



IV 4 



V 4 



VI 4 



VII 5 



VIII 5 



Page. 



Lesson IX 6 



X 6 



XI 7 



XII 7 



Adaptation to community 9 



Use of texts and references 10 



Use of illustrative material 10 



Observing corn day 11 



Suggestive correlations 12 



NEED OF STUDY OF CORN IN SCHOOLS. 



For a considerable number of years more attention has been given 

 by farmers to the production and improvement of corn than to any 

 other grain or general farm crop, yet for no 10-year period has the 

 average corn yield of the United States exceeded 28 bushels per acre. 

 No State has averaged for any year over 54 bushels per acre, yet in 

 practically every section of the United States yields of more than 

 100 bushels per acre have been produced. With the rapid spread of 

 the work of boys' clubs the need of the study of corn in the schools 

 has come to be better appreciated. The purpose of this bulletin is 

 to furnish lessons for developing the real educational value of this 

 study. 



LESSON I. 



Subject. — Kinds of corn. 



Topics for study. — Points of difference between flint, pop, sweet, 

 and dent corn. What is each kind mostly used for? How many 



Note. — A revision of Farmers' Bulletin 617, the original edition of which was issued 

 Oct. 22, 1914. Furnishes elementary lessons on corn and is of interest to rural-school 

 teachers in all parts of the United States. 

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