SUGGESTIONS FROM AN INSTITUTE.

Northern Advocate, 18 August 1888, Page 6

SUGGESTIONS FROM AN INSTITUTE.

ONE speaker at the receut farmers institute in ttatavis, N.Y., remarked the children should be taught tc to observe before learning the alphabet, He is teaching his four-year-old boj horticulture, and . he has already discover by experiments with seeds " sowr in pots that the bean is divided whil< corn is not. Teachers should ask childrer what they saw on the way to school 1 and point out to them what they mighi ! have seen— the different kinds of tree: ; and shrubs, of birds and insects, th< : varieties of flowers and fruits. H< employed a teacher to spend eacl ! Friday afternoon roving the fields witl pupils, telling them about the wonder 1 to be studied there. Horticulture shoulc ; not be taken up as a study in the distric 1 schools, but should be used as a recreation. <■ tion. Another speaker suggested in- ! formal talks to lead children to feel tha * there is much to learn on the farm— k much more than can be learned in on 1 brief lifetime; $64,000,000 are paid t< t teachers of our public schools to instruc * the children of farmers, yet they ari I told nothing about the wonders of plan ' growth, or of the familiar objects tha 1 surround them. | Aim to secure greater yields by bettei !• culture. It is apparent that if we car raise on. one acre the crop now growi I on two or three, as is the case witl , strawberries, there will be less expense in planting, hoeing and fitting the soil,