CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 19 
DRAWING. 
Prepare drawings of farm tools used in breaking and cultivating land, in fertilizing 
crops, and in general cultivation. When the implements are too complicated, make 
drawings of only the most essential parts. Keep in mind that the purpose is to teach 
the pupils the names and uses of implements and parts of implements. 
Study the history of the methods of preparation, cultivation, and harvesting of the 
various crops of your State and section that have obtained in the past and note the 
development. Compare these with methods employed in other sections and countries 
having similar products. Study the history of farm implements, noting the develop- 
ment, the saving of time and labor, and the increased efficiency. 
GEOGRAPHY. 
Study the time of planting crops, the maturing of crops, and the manner of housing 
crops and animals as affected by the elevation and latitude of your own State. Ex- 
tend this study to a comparison of the same with other States and countries having 
similar agricultural productions. 
ARITHMETIC. 
Problems should be developed on the cost of liming land, turning land at different 
depths, on the economy in the use of improved machinery in turning land, on the 
crop yields for your county, State, and section, on facts gathered as to the farm prod- 
ucts bought and sold by the State and country. Let problems be developed involving 
the value of farm products bought and sold by the home county and lessons deduced 
as to the status of your county in a financial way. Answer these questions: Do you 
produce more than you buy? Do you buy what you should produce? From records 
of pig-club members compare the relative value of scrub and pure-bred hogs. From 
records of poultry-club members develop problems on the production of the different 
breeds of poultry. 
EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. 
Excursions should be made to the farms of the community to study poultry, swine, 
horses, cattle, and sheep, for the purpose of practice in scoring (fig. 4) and to secure 
data for correlation exercises. On these visits to the farms implements should be 
observed to learn their names and uses. If there are any particular farmers who 
have new or specially improved implements for fall and winter plowing, visits should 
be made to observe these and to note their efficiency in use. 
DECEMBER. 
LANGUAGE LESSONS. 
Reports of field observations. Prepare score cards for exercises of this kind in field 
crops. Compositions on value of improved farming implements, especially those that 
are adapted to your section, should be required. Compositions on the care of farm 
implements should also be required. Letters ordering farm-implement catalogues 
and bills of implements should be written. Copy records of practical work. 
READING AND SPELLING. 
Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 51 (Rev.), Standard Varieties of Chickens; 270, Modern 
Conveniences for the Farm; 321, The Use of the Split-Log Drag on Earth Roads; 
408, School Exercises in Plant Production; 413, The Care of Milk and Its Use in 
the Home: and 541, Farm Buttermaking. 
List and assign new agricultural terms for spelling exercises. 
