FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS. 



No. 23. 



Leaflet 



On Nature Study. 



Especially Adapted to the Use of Children in Schools 

 IN Rural Districts. 



PREPARED BY THE 



FACULTY OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY. 



POINTS FOR A YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB. 



By Prof. W. C. Latta. 



In conducting an Experimental Farm, as suggested in Leaflet Xo. 

 23, many questions will arise, ilanv times will the interested and 

 inquiring pupil ask the what, when, where, how and why of things — 

 a.s, for example, wJiat are plant diseases; when and where do Ihey make 

 their attacks; how can they be prevented; lehy will not the same treat- 

 ment answer for all? 



While it is impossible within the limits of a leaflet to anticipate 

 and answer many of these troublesome questions, the writer desires 

 to give, in the following pages, some information relative to crops and 

 principles of cropping that will prove helpful to the teaclier in an- 

 swering questions and to the more advanced jDupils in conducting 

 their Experimental Farm. 



The prime agencies or essentials in crop production are seed, soil, 

 water, air, warmth and light. Among the chief obstacles to success 



NOTE 10 THE TEACHER.— In Leaflet No. 22 it was suffgested that it 

 might be well for the teacher or some young farmer whom the teacher might 

 interest in the enterprise to organize a Young Farmers' Club. This might 

 be formed of the older pupils in seyeral contiguous school districts. Such a 

 club, properly supervised, might prove to be very helpful. This leaflet is 

 designed to serve as a reference leaflet, from which information can be ob- 

 tained and thus aid the members of the club in the discussion of various 

 topics which they may desire to consider. 



