CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN XORTHERX STATES. 7 
descriptions. Have the summer experiences written up fully for 
each club project, not as a language lesson first, but for its content, 
and then revise. Have the pupils write and mail requests for bulle- 
tins needed, also for periodicals and catalogues. Have written such 
parts of the report on project work as are due at this time. Do a 
part of the work on the booklet to correspond with the field progress. 
(See Supplement on Booklets, No. VIII.) 
Reading and spelling. — Use those selections in the supplementary 
reading books which are rural in their bearing and which are seasonal. 
Utilize also the best selections available in other books. The teacher 
may well read some of these for the entire school. Among those 
possible for September will be found Maize — Fosdick; The Legend of 
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Fig. 1. 
-Desirable ear of corn. Selected by the Division of Corn Investigations, Bureau of Plant 
Industry. 
Maize (in Hiawatha) — Longfellow; Eyes and No Eyes — Kingsley; 
Happy the Man — Pope; To a Waterfowl — Bryant; Evening at the 
Farm — Trowbridge; Bob white — Cooper. Memorize the Country 
Boy's Creed, by E. O. Grover. 
Of a more strictly agricultural nature select those periodicals and 
bulletins which deal with the local conditions and the club activities 
of the pupils. Farmers' Bulletins which may be needed include Nos. 
229, The Production of Good Seed Corn; 415, Seed Corn; 537, How 
to Grow an Acre of Corn; 578, The Making and Feeding of Silage; 
617, School Lessons on Corn. 
Add to the regular spelling lists all the new words which appear in 
the agricultural reading and especially those which are misspelled in 
