CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IX XORTHERX STATES. 17 
If it is advantageous in your district to haul the fertilizer in winter, 
take up that matter with each club member. Visit local factories 
and warehouses which deal with agricultural material of any sort. 
Language lessons. — Stories of winter operations, trips, and pleas- 
ures offer much opportunity for oral and written language work. 
The snow and ice quicken local industries and provide new sports. 
Letters to obtain seed catalogues should be written this month. The 
pupils of this group should write about feeding cows or poultry, 
winter birds hi the orchard, also reports on trips and observations. 
Write for State and Federal publications on the topics related to the 
club work -of the coming spring. 
Reading and spelling. — Use supplementary readings which are 
seasonal. Selections suggested as samples are Winter Time — Steven- 
son; Essay on Roast Pig — Lamb; The Forest Song — Tenable; Win- 
ter — Lowell; Woodman, Spare That Tree — Morris; The Home Song — 
Longfellow. 
Also select readings from Farmers' Buls. 173 and 358, A Primer of 
Forestry, 'hi two parts; 363, The Use of Milk as Food; 594, Shipping 
Eggs by Parcel Post. 
Misspelling, mispronunciation, and misuse of agricultural terms 
often arise from the same cause. Teach the spelling, pronunciation ■, 
and proper use of each word used and drill until the pupils acquire 
confidence hi using them. 
Arithmetic. — Use the records from milk testing combined with 
records of milk production and compute total yield of butter fat, 
money value, and estimated profit. Where feed records are avail- 
able, obtain exact profit over cost of feed. Make similar computa- 
tions from egg records and poultry feed accounts. Consult census 
or Yearbook records for comparison with local productions and also 
for further problems. Compute fertilizer needed on club fields and 
gardens. Find the volume and capacity in tons of ice houses. Meas- 
ure logs, lumber, and woodpiles, and base problems on these figures. 
Use local prices and compute value of each. Have each club mem- 
ber keep accurate accounts. (See Farmers' Bui. 572.) 
Geography. — Look up the origin and present source of various fer- 
tilizer ingredients, and consider which ones might be replaced by 
better farm practice. Compare dairy records of the State and various 
other States and nations as printed in farm papers. Have maps 
made of the home farms, and on them locate the pupils' own fields 
and each of the crops for the coming season as fast as they are de- 
cided. Locate by color or shading the different soils. The United 
States Department of Agriculture has issued soil surveys of many 
counties and some States have issued others. Obtain one for the 
county, if possible. Study the lumber industry of the section and 
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