AGRICULTURE FOR SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. 3 
USE OF ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL. 
In connection with most of the lessons suggestions are made for 
illustrative material to use in the classroom. The instructor should 
go over the course early in the year, as much of this material must be 
gathered in season or secured from a distance. 
DISTRIBUTION OF TIME AND CREDIT. 
In the preparation of the outline it has been assumed that there 
will be in the school year 36 weeks of five days each. Periods of 45 
to 60 minutes, three days each week, are to be spent in the classroom, 
and time equal to two hours a day, two days in the week, in field 
trips, practicums, and home-project work. One hundred and four 
lessons are given, leaving four classroom periods for examinations 
or reviews. In the course in soils and crops the remainder of the 
time is divided equally between the laboratory and home projects. 
In the course in animal husbandry relatively more time is left for 
home work. As many practicums may be worked out at home to 
greater advantage than at school, credit should be given for such 
work when evidence is given that it. is properly done. Work in- 
volving skill in farm operations is suited especially well to home 
practicums. Credit for home work should be allowed on the same 
basis as that given for practical work at school — that is, two hours' 
work for one hour credit. 
THE HOME PROJECT. 1 
In the course in soils and crops time equal to 36 double periods, 
or 72 hours, is left for the student's individual project. This ap- 
proximates the time needed to produce an acre of corn, hence, grow- 
ing an acre of corn may be required of the student before he is given 
credit for the course. It is even more necessary to adapt practicums 
and projects to the needs of the student and the community than it 
is to adapt the work of the classroom. All students in the course 
may not be able to grow an acre of corn, but it may be possible for 
them to grow some other crop. Projects should be provided for 
students who do not live on farms, as they are in special need of 
practical instruction. Where the school owns a farm it may be pos- 
sible for all such students to work out their projects at the school, 
or if they can secure work upon a farm which may be connected in 
a definite way with their course, credit should be given for such work 
as a substitute for a home project. 
1 See U. S. Department of Agriculture Bulletin 346, Home Projects in Secondary Courses 
in Agriculture. 
