CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 9 
EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. 
The excursions for the month will be determined more or less by the correlation 
needs. Special attention should be given however to visiting farms of the community 
having improved breeds of poultry and swine. Where possible, excursions should 
be made to farms equipped with modern implements, and the names and uses of these 
implements learned. If there is no farm in the community affording this opportunity, 
a visit to an extensive hardware concern for this purpose should be made. Farm- 
supply catalogues should be ordered, and the names of farm implements and their 
uses learned. 
Seasonable work in the school garden should be done. Cuttings of shrubbery and 
fruits should be made and stored during this month. 
DECEMBER. 
LANGUAGE LESSONS. 
For the younger pupils conversations on corn and its uses, cottonseed and its by- 
products and uses, peanuts, peas, and the small grains and their uses should be 
engaged in. Oral and written narrations on visits to old-fashioned gins, water mills, 
and other out-of-date machinery should be required of the mere advanced pupils. 
"Written descriptions of old-fashioned looms, spinning wheels, mowing blades, etc., 
compared with the modern machinery substituted for them should also be required. 
READING AND SPELLING. 
The following selections are suggested for supplementary work this month: The 
First Snow Fall, Lowell; and The Origin of Roast Pig, Charles Lamb. For the 
younger pupils there are a number of interesting Mother Goose rhymes relating to 
agricultural subjects that may be used. 
List and assign the new agricultural terms found in the correlation work as spelling 
exercises for this month. As examples of words that will appear the following are 
submitted: Starch, meal, bread, flakes, oil, gin, wheel, machine. 
DRAWING. 
During this month it will be profitable to engage the pupils in drawing all kinds 
of farm-crop seed and weed seeds and learning to recognize them at sight. It will 
be interesting to introduce colored crayons at this time to give each seed as nearly 
as possible its shade of color. 
HISTORY. 
It is suggested that during this month the history of the methods of planting, 
cultivating, harvesting, and marketing of the ordinary crops be studied. This study 
should tend to bring out the improvement that has been made in the various methods. 
GEOGRAPHY. 
During this month the study in geography should relate to the crops that are kept 
on the farm and those that are sold, the agricultural products that are bought by the 
community and the crops exchanged for them. The reason for the exchange of these 
crops should be noted, and the loss or gain to the community by the same. The 
means of exchanging crops should be studied, such as the manner of transportation 
and the commercial concerns engaged in buying and selling. 
ARITHMETIC. 
For the younger pupils exercises in determining the number of eggs, pounds of 
butter, and gallons of milk produced at each home in the community and the value 
of the same during each week in December should be developed. For the more 
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