Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., 1908: Transmitted to the Legislature January 15, 1909 XVIII. Home Nature Study Course - The subject - matter in this course has followed the suggestions contained in the syllabus of nature study issued by the State Department of Education, and covers the more important work of the fourth grade and some subjects in the fifth grade. There were issued during the year four leaflets and one supplement, making in all 128 pages, containing 76 nature study lessons and also detailed directions for planting and garden work. Each lesson was accompanied by a statement indicating the Object Of the lesson, the material needed, and the best way to secure it, and in connection with the series of questions covering the observations which the pupils should make there was a paragraph giving the teacher the facts concerning the topic and suggestions as to the method of teaching it. For the present there is provision for only copies of each leaflet, and the demand is so great that the en tire issue is now called for with the exception of 250 copies which have to be reserved for the files. Indeed, it was found necessary in some cases to send only one leaflet for two pupils in many of the training classes. 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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Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station Established Under the Direction of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 1912, Vol. 1: Transmitted to the Legislature January 15, 1913 The College is now publishing semi-monthly Lessons in the Reading Courses, a monthly Rural School Leaflet, bulletins of the Experiment Station, and circulars of the Experiment Station. In the last year we also established a new publication known as the Announcer of the College of Agriculture. This is published monthly, and contains brief announcements or statements of the work that the College is doing. This publication has been of more service to the work than any other single innovation that has been made for some time. It enables us to keep the people informed of the activities of the institution that they support, and it is the readiest and most economical means of answering many routine questions. Some of the issues are devoted chiefly to particular topics. One issue, for example, is given to exposition of the experiment station work; another to the extension work; another to the summer school work; others to the new plans for home economics and poultry buildings; and the like. Brief advance abstracts are given of the various publications. The first issue of the Announcer was published in October, 191 I. It has already become an established factor in the work of the institution. 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.