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ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
The teacher, pupils, and parents should work together 
to make the school exhibit a success. It should not be 
the aim of the community to collect all the odd or 
freakish things, but to collect samples of the best prod¬ 
ucts produced. It is not the purpose of the school to 
have one or two people supply all the material but that 
all of the pupils supply some material. Each boy may 
be able to supply, as a sample, ten ears of corn, twenty 
bolls of cotton, or a peck of wheat. 
Standard Exhibits.—The amounts of standard ex¬ 
hibits are as follows: 
Grain Sorghums.10 heads 
Oats, barley, wheat, rye. 1 peck 
Edible Nuts . 1 peck 
Canes..... •. 5 stalks 
Potatoes. . .".'"Tv .... 1 peck 
Carrots, turnips, beets, root crops.. 6 each 
Vegetables, fruit, eggplant, peppery 
and tomatoes . 6 each 
Vine Crops (peas and beans). 1 gallon 
Cucumbers . 6 each 
Cantaloupe . 3 each 
Pumpkins, squash, watermelons. . . 1 each 
Sweet corn . 1 dozen ears 
Onions . 1 peck 
Pop Corn .10 ears 
Forage crops. 1 bundle 
Eggs .12 each 
Fruits 
Apples (Plate) . 6 each 
Corn is perhaps the most commonly exhibited product 
of the farm. To prepare ten ears of com representing 
the best type of the variety requires much care and prac- 
