ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE FOR ALABAMA SCHOOLS. 19 
Recipes for special curing. — Salt pork, sugar-cured hams and 
bacon, dry-cured hams, headcheese, pickled feet, lard, and sausage. 
Glass assignment. — Give the class notes from Farmers' Buls. 183 
and 391 ; Alabama Experiment Station Bui. 166. 
Practical exercises. — (1) Pig-club members can get practice in 
dressing their own pigs. (2) Have pupils report in writing the 
practice at their homes as to dressing, keeping, and curing meat. 
Correlations. — Language : Written work is provided in " Practical 
exercise 2." Arithmetic : Have pupils report weights of their butch- 
ered pigs. Find the total weight of meat produced in the community, 
the average amount per family, and the value of the total amount 
produced. See United States Department of Agriculture Bui. 132, 
p. 39, for exercises in arithmetic. 
LESSON EIGHT. 
SUBJECT : FARM IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY ROADS. 
Class assignment. — Duggars, pp. 333-340. Supplement the lesson 
with notes from Farmers' Buls. 270, 347, and 597. 
Practical exercises. — (1) The teacher should take the class to a 
farm well equipped with machinery or to a hardware store. Make 
lists of the various farm implements and note their uses. The teacher 
should secure the cooperation of the farmer or the hardware mer- 
chant in this work. Under the direction of the farmer or merchant 
take down and set up a rather complicated machine. (2) Secure the 
cooperation of the patrons and grade the school-ground walks. After 
grading the walks dress them with a layer of gravel, chert, shells, or 
cinders. 
Correlations. — Language : Copy the list of farm implements in the 
class notebooks. Drawing: Outline a split-log drag. Geography: 
Locate on the county map the principal public highways. Locate on 
the State map the counties that have good roads. Llistory: What 
has the county done for the improvement of roads ? What system of 
keeping the roads in condition is in vogue? How have improved 
roads affected the price of land in the country? Arithmetic: Make a 
survey of the farm tools and implements in the community. Find 
their value. What was the amount of the road-bond issue in the 
county? How many miles of road were constructed? What was the 
average cost per mile? Find the cost of split-log and plank drags 
described in Farmers' Bui. 597. 
