BULLETIN OF THE 
No. 132 
Contribution from the Office of Experiment Stations, A. C. True, Director. 
January 21, 1915. 
CORRELATING AGRICULTURE WITH THE PUBLIC 
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
By C. H. Lane, Chief S pecialist in Agricultural Education and E. 
in Agricultural Education. 
PURPOSE OF THE BULLETIN. 
A. Miller, Assistant 
The club movement that is taking hold of the young life of our 
country promises to afford the teacher a most potent means of vital- 
izing the everyday work of the school. The problems of securing 
the interest of the pupil in the common-school branches, of teaching 
in an effective way farm economy, and of gaming the abiding inter- 
est of the school patrons seem to have in a large measure their solu- 
tion in the correlation of agriculture with the common-school branches 
by means of boys' and girls' clubs. It is the purpose of what follows 
to suggest some ways and means by which the rural or public-school 
teacher may utilize clubs in correlating agriculture and farm-life 
problems with the regular school work. 
In setting forth this correlation scheme the public-school classes 
are divided into two groups, the first group including grades one to 
five, and the second group including grades six to eight. This 
division is made for two reasons. In the first place, very few active 
club members will be found in the first group of grades, and the club 
influence in correlating the work with them will be largely incidental, 
while with the second group, in which most of the club $aembership 
will be found, the influence should be direct. In the second place, 
the incentives that stimulate pupils of the ages usually found in the 
first group are quite different from those that affect the pupils found 
in the second group. That is to say, pupils below the age of 12 are 
influenced more by imaginative and cultural stimuli, whereas pupils 
above that age and usually found in the sixth, seventh, and eighth 
grades are appealed to more strongly by economic incentives. 
Note. — This bulletin is prepared especially for the use of rural school teachers in the Southern States. 
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