School lessons on corn
By: by Dick J. Crosby, and F.W. Howe
Contributors: Howe, Frank William, 1865-; United States. Department of Agriculture
Series: Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture -- no. 409.; Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 409.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; G.P.O.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Corn
Description: "For a considerable number of years more attention has been given by farmers to the production and improvement of corn than to any other grain or general farm crop. It has not so generally had the attention of teachers and pupils in the schools. With the rapid spread of experimental corn growing through the work of boys' and girls' agricultural clubs, the need of such study in the schools has come to be better appreciated. The design of this bulletin is to furnish suggestions for developing the real educational value of this study and establishing some of its connections with arithmetic, botany, and other school subject. At the outset a general acquaintance with the corn plant is desirable. Many a boy and girl -- and teachers, too -- have dwelt in the presence of cornfields for a considerable part of their lives without appreciating the many features of interest which the structure and functions of this plant have to offer to the inquisitive students ..."--Page 5.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-29).
Table of contents: title: Class studies; title: Class exercises; title: Publications useful in corn study.