The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-09-12
OUR TEACHERS DEPARTMENT
Edited by Prof. Charles d. Lewis
King Corn and the School.

10 OF joints OF Ine btalk WIN tne
blade removed. Have all draw, and
exhibit all, or a few Of the best as
seems wise.
Fifth-Sixth Grades. These pupils
will enjoy and be benefited by u
study of corn In the field. Have them
take a census Of tho district and learn
the number of acres of corn that b
growing in It. Children should get
the figures from u a!r own homes,
and certain ones be assigned to get
the desired information from farmers
who have no children Of these grades
In the school. Besides, let each child
measure hundred feet off on three
rows taken in different parts of the
parents field, and count the number
of good ears found in each hundred
feet. II there are ten children maxi
ing these counts, you will have g.
900 feet OF row counted.
Allowing 120 ears to the bushel,
and that will not be too much con-
sidering the size of the ears that will
be counted, and that the rows will
average 3 1-2 feet apart, you can get
fair average for the district. Have
the number OF stalks in each sea-
ton of row counted, and then find
what the yield would have been had
q fA taII
there should have been. At the mar
l;et price what would such an in
crease have meant in money TO the
district?
Seventh-Eighth Grades. These are
your edvaIced pupils and must do
the hardest work fer the Corn Day.
Let each select ten ears of choice
seed corn from the fathers fields
and have them on exhibit. One ear
Of each may be on the stalk and
add much to the attractiveness Of
the school room on Oct 18th. In add
ton these pupils must write essays
on corn growing, seed corn, the use
fulness of corn, etc. Material may
be obtained from U. S. Bulletins
which every teacher should have. /
advise that you write your Represen-
tative at Washington for the follow
ing:
Farmers Bulletins Nos. 81, 229,
1856, 400, Ala, and Ais. If you do not
get them at once frCm him, write
The Secretary of Agriculture, Wash
ington, for them.
Also write Tho Experiment Station,
Lexington, KY. for anything that
they may be able u send you in re-
gard to corn.
Now the last and greatest thing is
to have nearly all of your district,
big and little, at your school house
for Corn Day. Have the grounds
clean, tho house 9potless, and your
corn decorations and exhibits every
where. II 1t is convenient have
some speakers from outside Of the
school. and outside Of the district, il
you can get them. but the most i'm
portant things will be what the chill
dren do and say.
Those who cannot write or talk
something of their own may be able
to get material of some kind related
to corn. Clippings from news or farm
papers, reports as to the corn crop in
other parts of the country which
may be secured by letters from
friends, and all kinds of corn informa
tion will be good material.
This may seem to be quite a task,
but it will not be hard after you get
it started, aud 1t will do more to max e
your school a real success than any
thing aside from real teaching that
| can tell you to do.
In conclusion, remember, You can,
if you WILL"
p. S.-Teachcrs wishing copies OF
the Corn Stories that have been
printed in the Teachers Department
may get eight copies by sending 10
cents to the editor of the Department