CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN STATES. 
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This is a good time to hold a public spelling contest. Observe the 
bird movements which begin soon and keep a bird calendar. (Fig. 4.) 
Language lessons. — Supervise the writing and sending of seed orders. 
Have the pupils write out their records and reports with care, making 
clearness of statement the first aim. Have copies made of some of 
the best reports and keep them with the files of agricultural literature. 
Have members of the class write invitations to adults requesting them 
to attend the contests. Have careful reports made of each new proc- 
ess taken up. Write letters to request new bulletins for spring work. 
Beading and spelling. — Suggested supplementary readings include 
Happy the Man — Pope; The Home Song — Longfellow; The Arab to 
His Steed — Caroline Norton; To a Mouse — Burns; Stories of Morrill, 
Seaman Knapp, and of other men who have assisted agricultural edu- 
cation in the Nation or the State. Read some of the most recent 
laws on this subject. Also use in class Farmers' Buls. 218, The School 
Garden; 255, The Home Vegetable Garden; 445, Marketing Eggs 
Through the Creamery; 528, Hints to Poultry Kaisers. Pay special 
Fig. 4.— Germinating devices for garden seeds. 
attention to the spelling of words used in the correspondence and 
reports sent out. Hold spelling contest and use all the farm words 
possible. 
Arithmetic.— Practice making invoices, checks, receipts, and other 
commercial forms involved in farm business. Compute garden areas 
and lay out to scale the space for each variety of vegetable. Use 
problems based on egg sales, cost of marketing, and net income. Use 
the figures obtained in milk testing, compute value of butter fat per 
hundredweight of milk and total value of milk if 30 cents per hun- 
dredweight is allowed for skimmed milk. Get the milk records of 
some of these cows and compute total income. If possible, get feed 
records and combine these with the other problems. 
Geography. — Add a district survey map covering the practice in seed 
testing, also in raising good seed. Have pupils look up the origin of 
the various seeds used in the district for garden and field crops. 
Should more seed be raised at home \ Which of these crops grow wild 
in milder climates? Which garden crops would it pay to raise for 
near-by markets ? Investigate the demand and the supply of these 
things which the club members of the class plan to raise. Carry this 
investigation to cities as far distant as shipment could be made. 
