UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 281 
Contribution from the States Relations Service 
A. C. TRUE, Director 
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Washington, D. C. 
August 12, 1915 
CORRELATING AGRICULTURE WITH THE PUBLIC 
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE NORTHERN STATES. 
By C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, and F. E. Heald, Assistant 
in Agricultural Education. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Introduction 1 
The plan .' 2 
How the teacher may organize a club ^ 2 
Prizes 4 
How to keep up the club interest 5 
School-exhibit day 5 
September 6 
October 9 
Page. 
November 12 
December 14 
January 16 
February IS 
March 20 
April 22 
May and June 24 
Correlation supplements 25 
INTRODUCTION. 
Home projects x as a part of the regular instruction in elementary 
agriculture promise to afford the teacher a most potent means of 
making the subject sufficiently concrete and practical. Too often 
the teaching begins and ends with the assignment and recitation of 
lessons from the pages of a textbook. By projecting the work of the 
school into the home in the vital way in which home projects do, it 
enlists the interest of parents and becomes the means of their edu- 
cation in this subject, thus affecting quickly the work on the farms 
of the community. 
The purpose of this bulletin is to suggest some ways and means 
by which the public-school teacher may utilize home projects in 
correlating agriculture and farm problems with the regular school 
work. 
1 The term "home project," applied to instruction in elementary and secondary agriculture, includes 
each of the following requisites: (1) There must be a plan for work at home covering a season more or less 
extended, (2) it must be a part of the instruction in agriculture of the school, (3) there'- must be a problem 
more or less new to the pupil, (4) the parents and pupil should agree with the teacher upon the plan, (5) 
some competent person must supervise the home work, (6) detailed records of time, method, cost, and in- 
come must be honestly kept, and (7) a written report based on the record must be submitted to the teacher. 
This report may be in the form of a booklet. 
Note. — This bulletin is prepared especially for the use of rural school teachers in the Northern States. 
98555°— Bull. 281—15 1 
