CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 27 
EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. 
Visits should be made to places in the community affording opportunities for the 
studying of hotbeds, cold frames, and their structure and use. 
The months of April and May should be devoted to planting contest crops and germ- 
inating plants for the purpose of transplanting later. 
MAY. 
LANGUAGE LESSONS. 
The closing days of school are generally used preparing exercises for the final public 
entertainments. These exercises should be full of the subject of agriculture. Let 
all the selections rendered touch upon some phase of agriculture. This will be an 
opportunity for the teacher to show in a public way what the school can do for the 
community in connection with its most important enterprise. 
READING AND SPELLING. 
The following are suggested for correlation reading: Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 132, 
Insect Enemies of Growing Wheat; 426, Canning Peaches on the Farm; 447, Bees; and 
521, Canning Tomatoes in the Home and in Club Work. 
The same plan with regard to the spelling exercises should be followed as in other 
months. 
DRAWING AND HISTORY. 
Same as in April. 
GEOGRAPHY. 
Study birds of the State with regard to habits of migration. Compare those that 
migrate and those that do not as to their agricultural economy. Study insects and 
fungus diseases of the State as to kinds, localities infested, and the influence they 
have on the kinds and yields of crops. 
ARITHMETIC 
Develop problems on cost of terracing, estimated saving of terraces, cost of open 
'ditches, cost of blind ditches, and problems involving the relative values of blind and 
open ditches with reference to original cost, saving in cultivatable ground, time in 
cultivation, keeping open ditch clear of weeds, etc. Multiply problems on the econ- 
omy of birds in destroying weed seeds, insects, and insect eggs. (See Yearbook Re- 
print No. 443, Does it Pay Farmers to Protect Birds? Also Farmers' Bulletin No. 187, 
Drainage of Farm Land.) 
CORRELATION SUPPLEMENTS. 
REFERENCES. 
Let each school provide itself with the publications of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture mentioned in this scheme and arrange them 
according to subjects in a permanent place in the school building. 
These publications may be had as long as the supply lasts by apply- 
ing to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Each school should write to the State college of agriculture asking 
that its name be listed to receive such matter printed by the college 
and the experiment station connected with it as is of value in the 
school work. 
