Individual Exercises for the Fall Term 
Five studies follow, which are intended to be used by the 
student, individually, andat his own convenience. The data 
called for may be picked up during the course of walks afield 
for air and exercise; but serial or extended observations, 
that cannot all be made in the course of a single class exercise, 
are in all cases demanded. Personal initiative is desired. 
An instructor may be asked to name plants or animals, but 
the student should learn by these exercises to consult nature 
independently. He should work alone, or with not more 
than one or two companions. A good idea of the continuity 
of nature’s processes and of her limitless perseverence in 
carrying them forward can be gained only by oft-repeated 
serial observations. 
Optional Study 1. A Student’s Record of Farm Operations 
It is the object of this study to discover how the farmer as 
an organism fits his environment. The student may learn 
that there is a natural history of the farmer as well as of the 
farm. He may see that the farmer’s affairs, commercial, 
civic, social, and religious, all have their seasons, even as 
leaves have their time to fall; that light and temperature and 
rainfall condition his activities, as they do the growth and the 
labors of his plant and animal associates. 
The work of this study will consist of weekly observations 
extending through the term or year. In such a table as is 
indicated on the next page, there is to be provided one column 
for the observations of each week. The student will need to 
be so situated that he may readily observe week by week 
what the farmers are doing; else he would better omit this 
study, for secondhand information is not desired. 
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