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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 294 
Contribution from States Relations Service 
SlJ&^&J'U A. C. TRUE, Director •J&$*^&U 
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Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER September 30, 1915 
LESSONS ON COTTON FOR THE RURAL COMMON 
SCHOOLS. 
By C. H. Lane, 
Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, States Relations Service. 
INTRODUCTION. 
In the cotton States the importance of elementary agriculture as a 
school subject is very generally recognized, and it is now being taught 
to a greater or less extent in a large proportion of the rural schools. 
More and more it is becoming a part of the daily program of the 
schools. 
It is hoped that these lessons, exercises, and references on the grow- 
ing of cotton, based on economic production and properly supervised, 
may serve as a supplement to the organized school work in elementary 
agriculture, contributing in a very definite way elements that can be 
obtained by no other means. 
The application of the lessons as outlined here will put the boy 
at actual farm problems where the expenditure of more or less money 
is necessary and where profitable incomes may be expected. Thus, 
through textbook instruction, laboratory exercises, correlations, and 
practical work in the growing of cotton on the home farm, this bulletin 
will aid in developing the real educational value of this study. 
LESSON I. 
Subject. — Varieties of cotton. 
Topics for study. — Points of difference between the following 
prominent and typical varieties of cotton: Cook Improved, Cleveland 
Big Boll, Triumph, Truitt, Lone Star, Rowden, Foster, Snowflake, 
Jackson, Trice, Griffin, Express, Russell, Columbia, l)urango, and 
Georgia Big Boll. How many of these varieties are grown in your 
school district? Which has proved most profitable? Compare 
one of these varieties with some local variety not found in the list. 
Note. — This bulletin furnishes elementary lessons on cotton and is of interest to rural school teachers 
in the Southern States. 
4069°— Bull. 294—15 
