4. Yes. Give newspaper clippings to members of the class. Have them read silently and later have news told in the child's own language.

5. It is the "Key Stone."

6. Space forbids. See Indiana Uniform State Course of Study.

7. The thought of the selection as the reader sees it.

8. (a) A work of the highest class and of acknowledged excellence. In literature it is the aposite of Romantine. (b) Paradise Lost, King Lear and the Odyssey.

9. (1) Have the class know enough of Swiss life so that it can understand and feel all of the situations presented by the story. (2) The important characteristics of adjustment are knowledge, sympathy and inborn ability to adjust.

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10. (1) Gives confidence; educates the feelings and aids in oral expression.

(2) The study period consists of reading and re-reading the selection until all of the actors know the situations as well as the words contained in it. This reading should be silent as well as oral.

11. If the first reading had been a word drill, the second should be for story work or picture getting work. The thing to do to arouse interest in a review is to study a new phase of the work.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

1. (a) What do you think of the importance of teaching young girls how the simpler principles of beauty and art may be applied to the home? Give reasons. (b) Suggest a few things that could be successfully done in this line in a rural school.

2. (a) Of what advantage is it to a woman living in the country to know something about dairying, poultry raising, gardening?

(b) Indicate by a free hand drawing what you think would be the best arrangement for the house, garden, poultry yard and barn on an Indiana farm. 3. (a) Discuss various ways of obtaining supplies for laboratory work.

(b) How would you meet the situation if the child reports a method used by her mother that has been condemned by you?

4. If funds were not sufficient for carrying on the work, suggest methods by which more funds might be obtained.

5. (a) Given a definite amount of time for laboratory work in cooking in the seventh and eighth grades, how much time do you feel you would be justified in taking for recitation work on the same topic?

(b) What will you tell a child is the place of meat in the diet?

6. How would you select and arrange the clothes preparatory to washing?

7. Describe the making of a work bag and tell what stitches, principles, and processes are involved.

8. What properties in linen make it especially useful in the household, and what occurs when it is adulterated with cotton? Why is pure linen such an pensive material?

AGRICULTURE.

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1. What relation has local history to the study of agriculture?

2. How would you have a class in agriculture proceed in the study of poultry?

3. What is the value to the teacher of a state course of study in agriculture? Group 1.

1. How may organic matter be introduced into soil?

2. Discuss "Aeration of Soils."

3. Make a comparison of the use of organic matter and of lime for the purpose of permanently improving the structure of a soil.

1. The local history of a community should of determine the attitude the agriculture teacher. For instance, a teacher can fail to have any influence among farmers if he disregards what farmers have raised or done, even though it all be wrong.

2. Each member should have some poultry and work out some things in his flock. Take class and go into a poultry yard to judge.

3. A state course of study is a guide only. It is not a law. There are standards laid down and one must apply such to his environment.

Group 1.

1. Organic matter may be introduced into the soil by using fertilizer which has the compounds; it may be by turning under green manure; through the air and by the humus added to the soil.

2. "Aeration of Soils" is very important. Air in the soil makes it possible for the bacteria to work and thus make plant food available. It also allows the warmth to penetrate the soil. Cultivation is partly to let air to the roots of plants.

3. Lime would never take the place of organic matter, but lime might be the only thing to add, especially if the soil is sour. Organic matter will build up the soil and lime only helps to make plant food available. There is no fertilizer in lime to amount to anything.

Group 2.

1. For a four-year rotation use corn, oats, winter wheat, followed by clover and timothy. A five-year rotation may consist of corn, oats and winter wheat, each one year, followed by red clover and timothy, two years. In the alfalfa regions we may have alfalfa three years and followed by corn for two or three years.

2. Potato scab. Soak seed in formalin before planting, and do not plant in manured ground or sod.

3. Corn should be cultivated a great deal at the proper time. One harrowing and rolling when small should be given. Deep cultivation should be given when corn is small on account of disturbing root system. Very shallow cultivating should be used after the corn gets roots started. Should be cultivated after each rain. If the weather is dry, a light harrow should be dragged

through the rows all summer to keep a dust mulch.

Group 3.

1. Note feet and legs; feet must be large, round and wide at heel; legs should be rather short and well set under the body. Should weigh 1,800 pounds and upward. The body should be well-developed, deep, wide and short.

2. In oats we have protein and carbohydrates. In clover hay we have crude fiber, proteids carbohydrates and fat.

3. About 15 pounds clover hay, 16 pounds corn silage, 13 pounds cornmeal, 3 pounds wheat bran or 8 pounds alfalfa hay, 12 pounds cornmeal, 5 pounds ground oats.

Group 4.

1. Poultry for fattening should be kept in a closed pen with a wire bottom So the manure will work through. Perhaps the best ration consists of equal parts of cornmeal, ground oats, bran and shorts mixed with sour milk. This mash should be thin, but not thin enough to run. Poultry should be fed twice a day as nearly twelve hours apart as possible. Feed should be left by them for twenty minutes and then removed. Water should not be given, so the birds may eat more of the wet food. About twelve days' feeding will fatten the poultry.

2. The leghorn is a small, active bird and is difficult to fatten. They are persistant layers and belong to the Mediterranean class. The Minorca is heaviest of Mediterranean fowls and originated on the island of Minorca. The flesh is good for meat and they possess a strong constitution and great vigor. The Hamburg is a small active bird. They are prolific layers. All varieties have darkcolored shanks and toes. The Brahmas belong to the Asiatic breeds and having large bodies they are used for food. They have large heavy bodies, are very clumsy and persistent sitters.

3. The bird that has little strength and vigor is more susceptible to disease. strong active breeds resist all diseases.

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1. A hotbed has enough fresh manure under the dirt to keep the earth warm enough to germinate seeds and force the growth of plants. A cold frame is warm enough for plants to grow slowly. It is used to toughten and harden plants.

2. The best hotbed should be made on top of a large manure pile with about five or six inches of dirt. Seeds should be planted in rows and not covered too deeply. The top should be kept moist but not wet and the glass raised during sunshine in order to ventilate. When the weather will permit,

take frame off.

1. It should be lines of work that are typical of fundamental to the various occupations of the community, also to the industries into which the young people will enter though not carried on in the immediate community.

2. Since these are tools most generally used on account of lumber being so common, and which is so much used in the construction of buildings, homes and furniture, the importance of teaching their use is not liable to be overestimated; nor will the teaching of their use be overemphasized.

3. The fibre of the wood is slightly torn out or split beyond the edges of the saw kerf, thus producing a very rough cut. The saw does not run smoothly at any time, going by jerks, and in starting the cut it often splits a little piece off the edge of the board. b. The teeth run between the fibres of it tending to split it, though not doing it. They wedge between the wood grain and rub and tear the wood as the saw enters, rather than cutting the wood fibre and making a smooth kerf. The saw is difficult to guide.

4. Eighteen double pupil benches 3 feet wide and 6 feet long equipped with two roller-nut quick-acting vises, one on each side. The best vise, the best bench and the best tools are economical in the end.

Each bench should have in it two large lockers for two of each of the following: Smooth plane body, jock plane body, hack saw, marking guage, try square, hammer, and mallet, screwdriver, bench-hook,

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oils one. Each bench should be equipped with as many individual drawers as there are pupils using it during the day. In each drawer should be two plane bits, one for each plane, 1 in. chisel, 4 in. chisel.

The following general tools are needed: The best small emery oil grinder (not an old time water grindstone), 2 carpenters' squares, 2 ripsaws, 3 hand saws, 3 spoke shaves, 1 draw shave, 2 best ratchet braces, 1 full set "Irwin" auger bits from 4 inch to 1 inch by sixteenths, 1 Yankee drill, 1 set of Syracuse brace drills, 2 brace screwdrivers, 2 rose countersinks, 1 dozen clamps of various sizes with metal screws and wood jaws; doz. all-steel 6-foot clamps, 3 nail sets, 2 full sets of chisels running from % inch up to 2 inches.

5. Lumber that is dry enough not to shrink or expand in ordinary temperature when protected from moisture and excessive heat. 6. Use filler on it the color of the wood and rub it off leaving all pores filled; then give it a few coats of shellac or good varnish. By rubbing these a dull finish may be had. Otherwise it will be glossy.

8. The general shape, proportion and bal

ance of parts followed which gives it beauty; in building a piece of say, furniture, a table for instance. It is not something put on or added to the table by way of decoration.

EDUCATIONAL

RESOURCES OF VILLAGE AND RURAL COMMUNITIES..

1. Discuss the influence of soil on the community.

2. How would you make a survey of the educational resources of the community? 3. Are stores producers of wealth? Discuss. 4. The need of a trained sanitarian is as great in the country as in the city, and possibly greater. Discuss.

5. What natural objects of beauty are to be found in the country?

6. Suggest a plan to make the school the social center of the community.

7. What are some of the charges against the teaching in our rural schools?

8. What are the advantages of properly equipped playgrounds?

Answers.

1. The richer the soil the more prosperous the community. It has more of the modern conveniences and enjoyments of life and it has more leisure and pleasure because its larger returns from the rich soil. On the kind of soil depends the crops that can be raised. On these often depend the factories that are in operation.

2. Collect, tabulate and compile information on the following and put it in the homes: The physical resources of the community, the human resources, the economic activities, the community health, hygiene and sanitation and on all the other sixteen chapter headings in Educational Resources of Village and Rural Communities, by Hart, in this year's reading circle course.

3. No. The original source of wealth is the soil. There are those who prey upon their fellow men, and there are those who serve those who are struggling with the physical resources, but the general statement is none the less true that the great masses of humanity are engaged during the major part of their time working with nature and her products.

4. Our sanitary needs are the same everywhere. We must have pure water, pure air, pure milk, pure food, protection against contagious disease and accident, sanitary housing, proper preparation of his food, conditions of labor which do not involve exhaustion and vitality, reasonable hours of rest, a certain amount of recreation and safe disposal of wastes of mankind, animals and industrial establishments. The fact that the dweller in the rural hamlet cannot have a municipally guarded and purified water supply is no valid reason why he should consider it necessary to allow his shallow well to receive the drainage of his privy and barnyard.

5. The landscape, the distant hills, the broad prairie; the river or the lake; the island or the valley; the clear sky or the sky with clouds: the sweet and unpolluted air; the majestic forest: the flower-decked meadow: the tiled field. The waiving wheat and corn have a charm of their own.

6. At the school house the children should meet for their games and play in the gymnasium or community play-field. Here the older people should come for their community meetings, their political gatherings, their industrial associations, their religious meet. ings and their neighborly communions. Here the young women have their parties and their fun, frankly recognized as a part of the

community life and the promise of the future life of the community.

7. Too many of our rural teachers are city bred, are city trained with city ways and sympathies. The course of study has been made for children with city motives, thus our farm boys and girls have been trained away from the country instead of for it. It has failed to keep pace with the needs of our rapidly developing agricultural life. The rural school has had its face toward the city. 8. Jos. Lee, the father of the modern playground movement in this country, says "Play is not a luxury, but a necessity; it is not something a child likes to have; it is something that he must have if he is to grow up. It is more than an essential part of his education; it is an essential part of the law of his growth, of the process by which he becomes a man at all. All this is true for the country child as for the city child.”

MUSIC, COMMON SCHOOL AND PRIMARY. 1. Write the scale of A major. 2. Write the scale of A minor. 3. Write three different

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measures in 6-8

1. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, a-f, c and g are sharped. To place on staff begin either on second line below staff or second space in the staff. To

2. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, a, signature blank. place on the staff begin same as for A major. 3. Two dotted quarter notes six-eighth notes and one quarter and four-eighths. 4. (a) Monotone means one tone. (b) Place in front.

5. (a) A melody is a logical arrangement of a succession of tones to express a definite musical idea.

(b) Harmony treats of the arrangement of tones when sounded simultaneously.

6. Whole (oval), half (oval with stem), quarter (head with stem), eight (one flag), sixteenth (two flags), thirty-second (three flags).

7. Lines commencing at bottom, g, b, d, f, a.

Spaces commencing at space below, f, a, c, e, g.

8. Chromatic scale is one composed of thirteen half steps, as c, c-sharp; d, d-sharp, e, f, f-sharp; g, g-sharp; a, a-sharp; b. c.

Primary.

9. (a) Create atmosphere.

(b) Teacher sing song as a whole with or without accompaniment.

(c) Sing a phrase at a time, children repeating.

(d) Song not learned until each child can sing it alone.

10. America, Star-Spangled Banner, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Kellar's American Hymn.

11. Moderately quick; lively, quick; moderate; soft, very soft; moderately loud; loud.