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BULLETIN 281, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
school fair for the local newspapers. Conversations in which pupils 
tell without interruption about some process, trip, or other experience 
should alternate with written exercises. 
Have members of the class write formal invitations to adults 
requesting them to attend the school fair. Send requests for bulle- 
tins, score cards, and other material needed soon. 
Beading and spelling. — Read inspirational and seasonal supple- 
mentary selections, as: The Farmers Gold — Edward Everett; Black 
Beauty — Sewall; The Corn Song — Whittier; The Apple — Burroughs; 
The Horse Fair — Baldwin; Hiawatha's Brothers — Longfellow. 
Readings in practical agriculture may be found in Farmers' Buls. 
51, Standard Varieties of Chickens; 287, Poultry Management; 313, 
Harvesting and Storing Corn; 574, Poultry House Construction. 
Pig. 2.— Evidences of strong and weak constitutions. Selected by Animal Husbandry Division, 
Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Also use State bulletins and periodicals on suitable topics. Drill on 
words misspelled in written exercises and on new words in reading. 
Arithmetic. — Make out with accuracy and neatness statements of 
cost and income to accompany the report on the club work. Rule 
columns with care and make figures plain. Compute and order bill 
of lumber needed for new poultry house or for remodeling, for nests 
or other equipment. From the figures obtained from various crops 
assign problems adapted to the advancement of the pupils. 
Geography. — Complete a local survey of the crops and the poultry 
flocks of the district. Record this both on maps and on tabular 
charts. Have pupils look up the extent of the trade in farm produce 
for the State, at what points sold eventually. Find also the origin 
of grain and other farm produce imported from without the State. 
