VI EDITOR'S PREFACE 



been prepared by Director G. H. Gilbert of Bristol County Agricul- 

 tural School, Segreganset, Massachusetts. It is the outgrowth 

 of experience at an excellent school that distributes instruction 

 over projects carried on with the aid of pupils by the school itself, 

 projects owned and carried on by selected pupils at the school, 

 supervised agricultural work of pupils on projects of other approved 

 farms, and home projects. This should be an aid to valuable note- 

 book work the year around. 



This handbook, and its supporting loose-leaf guides, are in- 

 tended primarily for pupils in vocational agricultural classes of 

 high schools and of separate, county, district, and state schools 

 that are benefiting from federal funds under the so-called Smith- 

 Hughes Act. 



The serious questions and problems, practicums, and individual 

 guidance involved may well be given careful attention by students 

 in agricultural teacher-training classes, for there is no greater 

 need in agricultural education than that of preparing would-be 

 instructors for their prospective duties in detail. 



There can be no doubt that vocational agricultural pupils of 

 good ability who cover the ground indicated by this handbook 

 should have no difficulty, while preparing first for pleasant and 

 profitable gardening, in earning, at the same time, at least one unit 

 of credit toward entrance into a degree course at any state agri- 

 cultural college. 



RxjFus W. Stimson. 



January 1, 1922. 



