12 BULLETIN 281, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
NOVEMBER. 
Practical and field exercises. — Visit storage plants for farm produce 
if there are any in the section. Visit farms where the class may 
inspect pure-bred poultry, cows and other animals. Observe also 
the best methods of housing. Visit a club member's poultry house. 
If any orchard work is done in the district this month have reports 
made on this work. Pruning and scraping must be done before 
spraying with lime-sulphur for San Jose scale. (See Farmers' Buls. 
181 and 492.) This may be done at any time after the trees become 
dormant except during freezing weather. Have apple-club members 
inspect for the scale, and if present it should be treated at once. 
Apple packing for market may be in order in some sections. Have 
poultry houses cleaned, repaired, and sprayed this month. Rubbish 
must be destroyed and vines and shrubs protected from the cold. 
Certain trees and shrubs may be set out now. Cuttings made during 
pruning of grape vines and many shrubs may be preserved in sand 
until spring. (See Farmers' Buls. 157 and 471.) The teachers should 
advise club members to do these things. Complete the collection of 
soils, seeds, etc., for winter use. 
Language lessons. — Have reports o» field trips written with care 
and when they are on the topic of the projects, incorporate them in 
the booklets. Likewise, include descriptions of structures or oper- 
ations observed or used. Have oral discussions along the lines 
suggested in the practical exercises, trying to obtain from the pupils 
clear descriptions in good English. 
Send letters to obtain bulletins, catalogues, tools, etc. Have the 
class edit a school newspaper (not printed) dealing with the affairs of 
the school and the club work of the district. Have this read in school 
and send articles of merit to the local press. Thanksgiving suggests 
many seasonal topics and is emphatically a rural festival. 
Reading and spelling. — Include in the supplementary reading 
selections like Walden Pond — Thoreau; November Woods — H. H. 
Jackson; Farming — Emerson's Essays; The Twenty-third Psalm; 
Descriptions from Audubon's Writings; November — Alice Carey. 
Look up the story of Johnny Apple-seed in Hillis' "The Quest of 
John Chapman." 
Continue reading in bulletins suggested for October and add 
Fanners' Buls. 154, The Home Fruit Garden; 491, The Small Apple 
Orchard; 492, Enemies of the Apple; 528, Hints to Poultry Raisers; 
562, Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs. Also use State publications 
from all sources and farm papers on related topics. 
Keep a list of words posted which shall include agricultural terms 
used in the reading texts, also words which have been misspelled or 
mispronounced. Have spelling exercises, both written and oral, on 
