Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-04-07
WARREN ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS
81 AGRICULTURALD DEPARTMENT.

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Outlines for the Work in Agriculture
for the Rural Associated
Schools.
! The school will be divided into two
divisions instead Of three, as former
| ly. The first division will include
the five first grades and the second
division, the three remaining grades.
1st Division Five First Grades. Work
for April and May. Language
Lessons.
For the younger pupils, converse
ton practice and short variations, or
al and written, concerning what
spring brings to us, home garden, ex-
periences and insect, animal, and bird
habits should be engaged in. Encour-
age school and home flower garden.
Talk about the display Of vegetables
and flowers that will take place next
September.
For more advanced pupils, oral and
written exercises concerning the pre-
paration Of seed beds, planting, fer
tilization, and cultivation should be
required. The written work should
be extended to description of plants
in process of termination and in diff
ferent stages of growth. Oral and
written stories on preparation of seed
potatoes and seed bed and care and
management of swine.
Reading and Spelling.
| The following are suggested for
supplementary exercises: The Cow,
R. L. Stevenson; The Little Plant,
Kate Brown; Come Little Leaves,
George Cooper; The Busy Bee, Isaac
Watts; Little Cock Sparrow; The Bee
and the Flowers, Tennyson; The Song
of the Brook, Tennyson; To Butter
fly, Wordsworth; The Gladness of
Nature, Bryant; The Owl, Tennyson;
The Pet Lamb, Wordsworth; Sweet
Peas, Keats; and To a Mountain
Daisy, Robert Burns.
The new words and terms appear
ing in the correlated exercises of Ap-
ril and May should be listed and as
signed as lessons from time to time.
Drawing.
/ The drawings should consist of out
lines and sketches of terminating
seeds, plantlets, leaves, roots, flowers
and parts of flowers from the home
garden, fields and forests. Drawings
of devices and simple implements
used in the home garden should be
made. Insects having well-defned
round of life should be studied with
the view to making drawings of each
stage of existence. Make drawings
to show the development Of buds into
leaves. Sketches Of hog houses ana
pens should be made in the connection
with your study of hogs.
Arithmetic.
Problems should be developed OF
the value of birds to the farmer il
the number of weed seeds and insects
destroyed by each individual bird il
the course of year. Size Of HON,
farm, distance across it and aroun<
it; distance across one quarter sec
ton; distance one would have to wall
to cross one acre, etc. How man.
miles does the plowman walk in ;
day? In week? How many mile
does mamma walk in a day?
Field Trips and Practical Work.
Excursions for the purpose 0
studying birds, plants, animals an,
insects should be continued.
End Division-Three Upper Grades
Work for April and May.
Language Lessons.
Reports of field observations. Com
positions on methods of growing Civ
! en- crops, sue has corn, potatoes an
I tomatoes. The following points Shout
. be covered in each composition: Pre-
k Iparation Of soil, preparing the seeo
e planting, cultivation, and harvesting
Write letters to T. A. Erickson, Uni
versity Farm, st. Paul, Mimi, askin
]. advice and information as to matter
t pertaining to your club work Max
t La record Of practical work Debate
|. I!"The Corn Club Movement" has don
9 more to increase the yield Of corn i
Il the state during the last four year
!. than any other influence.
y Reading and Spelling.
For correlation reading the follow
= ing are suggested; SHUTS Of whea
:. oats, barley and corn; some factor
!, in education in Minnesota; hoggin
down corn; corn cultivation; see
testing; pig clubs for Minnesota
pork production; Minnesota seed Law
:, wire worms.
:. New&words should be listed and til
= pupils should be asked to look up tt
meaning Of each also to be able
: |spell these correctly.
e Drawing.
During the months Of April ar
May the pupils Of this group shou7
% spend the time to be devoted to draw