Excerpt from Agriculture in the Public Schools: A Handbook for Teachers In the preparation of this book it has been the aim to furnish a guide for teachers in the public schools, and especially the rural schools, who are expecting to prepare a course of study that will include the subjects of nature study and elementary agriculture. The author has also endeavored to furnish some assistance in the organization of rural schools, the leaching of agriculture and nature study in the rural schools, plans for conducting parents' meetings, public displays of school work, corn, potato and vegetable growing contests, home, rural and city school flower gardens, and many other suggestions that may prove helpful to the teacher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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