ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE FOR ALABAMA SCHOOLS. 31 
LESSON SIX. 
SUBJECT : HORTICULTURE. TOPICS 1 ( 1 ) SPRAYING CONTINUED ; ( 2 ) GARDENING. 
Spraying. — Continue spraying for San Jose scale, peach leaf curl, 
brown rot, and apple scab. See February lesson on spraying. 
Spray apples, pears, and quinces for codling moth; plums and 
peaches for curculio and rot; grapes for anthracnose, mildew, and 
rot. For codling moth use 1 pound of dry arsenate of lead to 50 
gallons of water, with an addition of 2 pounds of lime to make a 
white spray. The same spray should be used for the curculio. 
Spray grapes with Bordeaux mixture. 
Gardening. — Transplant peppers and cabbage. In the southern 
part of the State set eggplants. Bed sweet potatoes. Plant in the 
open bush beans, Lima beans, cucumbers, okra, parsnips, and salsify. 
Class assignment.— Duggar's, pp. 258-260, 229-232, 185, 186, and 
190. Supplement the lesson on sprays with notes from Alabama 
Experiment Station Bids. 139 and 144 ; Circ. 1 ; Farmers' Buls. 284, 
440, and 492. Supplement the lesson on gardening with timely notes 
from Alabama Experiment Station Circ. 14, Parts I and II; 
Farmers' Buls. 232, 255, and 289. 
Practical exercises. — (1) Continue the garden work on the school 
or home plats (2) Tomato club members should keep their plats 
thoroughly plowed and harrowed. Break up all clods and keep 
down the growth of weeds. (3) Pupils that have no projects and are 
not club members should be required to make written reports cover- 
ing such points as the vegetables being planted at their homes, from 
what they are reproduced, whether from seed, bulbs or tubers, and 
how planted, whether in drills or on beds. 
Correlations. — Language: Reports on work with home or school 
garden plats and work being done in the gardens at the homes of the 
pupils provide suitable written work. Each pupil should be re- 
quired to copy all such reports in the notebooks. Arithmetic : Based 
upon the foregoing reports develop problems in connection with the 
garden work of the month. Labor, seed, and fertilizers should be 
taken into account. 
LESSON SEVEN. 
SUBJECT : SMALL FRUIT. TOPIC : SETTING STAWBERRIES. 
Planting. — Soil should have abundant humus and be supplied with 
well-rotted manure; preparation should include thorough fall break- 
ing and spring harrowing ; plants should stand 2 feet apart, roots 
should be well pruned, and the soil should be packed firmly about 
them ; crowns should not be covered. 
Varieties. — Excelsior for early berries, Klondyke and Lady Thomp- 
son for medium, Aroma for late. 
