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Consolidated Rural School Course. 



First Year. — Reading, writing, spelling, music, language, 

 nature study, number work, general exercises. 



Second Year. — Reading (using in part themes from nature, the 

 farm, and the home), spelling, language, number work, writing, 

 music, hygiene, history, drawing, nature study, general exercises. 



Third Year. — Reading (nature stories forming a part), 

 spelling, language, arithmetic, writing, music, geography, 

 hygiene, history, nature study, general exercises. 



Fourth Year. — Reading (country life literature included), 

 spelling, language, arithmetic, writing, music, geography 

 (including distribution of farm products), hygiene, drawing, 

 nature study, general exercises. 



Fifth Year. — Reading (including stories of our country and 

 lessons in agriculture and home economics), spelling, language, 

 arithmetic, writing, music, drawing, geography (including in 

 part physical geography in respect to the work done by nature's 

 forces in preparing soils), history, physiology, nature study, 

 general exercises, literary society work. 



Sixth Year. — Reading (including animal life and adventure), 

 spelling, language, arithmetic, writing, music, drawing, geo- 

 graphy, history, physiology (including principles of nutriton 

 and food values), co-operative enterprises, agriculture (first half 

 year, affairs of agriculture ; second half, the soil), general exercises 

 (for boys, wood work ; for girls, sewing), literary society w r ork. 



Seventh Year. — Reading and literature, spelling, grammar, 

 arithmetic, writing, geography (combined with physical geo- 

 graphy), music, history, co-operative enterprises, agriculture 

 (farming schemes and crops), general exercises, literary society 

 work. 



Eighth Year. — Reading and literature, spelling, grammar, 

 arithmetic (including farm problems, land surveying, and farm 

 statistics), music, geography, history, agriculture, general 

 exercises, literary society work. 



Ninth and tenth, or first two high school years, are placed 

 in the consolidated rural school. The figures indicate the 

 number of weekly recitations of respective studies. 



Ninth Year. — High School Year. First Half Year — 

 Agricultural botany (4), elementary algebra (5), English (4), 

 drawing farms and buildings (2), rhetoric (1) ; Boys : Rural 

 engineering (3) ; Girls : Sewing (2), agriculture (1). Second 



