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first being thought of in early spring. Later on lessons may 

 concern: difEerent kinds of garden plants; planning the gar- 

 den ; implements and garden tools ; growth of plants ; spraying, 

 and otherwise combating garden enemies; weed problems; 

 methods of harvesting; and preparation for market. 



As new words are learned, a little drill should be given 

 from time to time in proper spelling and in their varied uses. 

 Any teacher of reading will readily understand how to make 

 use of the words in the body of a program, as well as those 

 which are placed by the authors of text books at the top- of the 

 page. It is more essential that the child know how to prop- 

 erly spell the words which he is to meet in his daily life than 

 that he learn how to spell those words which are seldom found 

 in print. 



Geography. — It is now a well-accepted principle that 

 geography should begin at home. Lessons in the new geogra- 

 phy are lessons about the products and how people of the 

 world live. Should not the child learn about the things 

 of his own land first ? Which is better, for the child to learn 

 how and where bananas are grown, or to learn of the dis- 

 tribution and growth of the American corn crop ? There are 

 many valuable garden crops which are used more or less com- 

 monly in America, about which many young people know noth- 

 ing. The study of our own food products is good geography 

 work. No teacher can truthfully say that time spent in the 

 study of garden plants and garden products should better halve 

 been spent in the old lines of geography work. We all believe 

 in the newer methods of geography teaching. Kothing is lost 

 by giving a part of the tinoe to the study of gardening, thus 

 reducing the time formerly allowed to the older methods in 

 geography. 



The mapping of the school grounds, the drawing of the 

 plans of school gardens and the planning of paths and roads 

 can properly be done during the geography period. 



History is too much concerned with) rulers, religious 



