An intelligent but untrained person might be taught to prepare and insert a cion (386) 1 in the most approved way. This pertains to the art of grafting. The same person might be taught the reasons why each step of the process is performed in its particular manner. This pertains to the science of grafting. One may become a skilled grafter without learning the science of grafting, but one cannot graft intelligently. The artisan, however skillful, who knows only the art, cannot become a master workman in the highest sense until he learns also the science that underlies his trade. The art of doing any kind of work is best learned by working under the guidance of a skilled workman. The science is best learned from books and laboratory and field experimental studies with the help of trained instructors. Science not yet wrought out, and hence not explained in publications, is learned by close, persistent and thoughtful investigation. 3. Environment is a term used to express all the outside influences, taken as a whole, that affect a given object in any way. A plant or animal, for example, is affected by various external conditions, as heat, moisture, light, food and so on. These conditions and all others that influence the plant or animal make up its environment. 4. What is plant culture ? The well-being of a plant, or animal depends very much upon a favorable condition of environment, and with the proper knowledge, we can do much toward keeping the environment in a favor-1 The numbers in parenthesis in the text refer to the numbered paragraphs in this book, and are intended to help students to a better understanding of the subject. Students should be urged to look up these cross-references. end of which the life disappears and the body loses more or less promptly its form and properties. 9. Vigor and feebleness are terms used to express the relative energy manifested by the life of different living beings. Certain trees in the nursery row usually outstrip others in growth, i.e., are more vigorous than others. One

The importance of the vocational element in education "^as come to be generally recognized. In response to popular demand guided by professional advice, state and national K governments are back of this new educational development. J-^E ducators are urging its wider adoption and its more intimate application to the environment of the child. If vocational courses are properly adapted to community needs, U5 their educative value is not only highly utilitarian but is 2 also mentally disciplinary in the best sense of that phrase, o The most widespread and most pronounced demand for vocational education is in our rural schools. Here the call J^i s for the teaching of the principles of agriculture. Farming as a vocation is subject to the same high requirements of present-day efiSciency as are other vocations. This is >", necessary economically so that we may be able to meet ;/ world competition. It is necessary socially so that eacĥ may produce the materials of food and clothing to the }g greatest capacity of his farm. Agriculture is not hapo hazard farming. It is a science whose principles must be 3 mastered before they can be intelligently applied. The place to begin that mastery is in our rural schools. Even the teacher with little technical knowledge of the subject and with limited experience can direct her pupils into the ways of understanding if she is provided with a proper textbook. This book should deal with fundamental principles in a simple and an interesting way. Thus it 3 234G12 4 PREFACE serves as a safe guide to the teacher; and to the pupils it is an inspiration to experiment, to inquire of practical farmers, and to read and study further. Fortunately an abundance of supplemental reading matter is readily obtainable from the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C, and State Experiment Stations. A notable demonstration of the value of the study of agriculture in the rural school course may be cited from the experience of one of the northwestern states. This state passed a law requiring that elementary agriculture be taught in the rural schools. The law had been in force for a period of ten years, so that the boys and girls who had had this instruction were then the men and women managing or working on the farms of the state. The results of this instruction are reflected by the statistics furnished by the United States Government. During this decade the state raised more flax to the acre than any other state. It stood first in the yield to the acre of oats, barley, spring wheat, and sugar beets. It stood second in acre yield in potatoes, exceeded only by a state using many tons of commercial fertilizer. It stood fifth in acre yield of com, being exceeded only by the highest yielding state by 2.5 bushels. Such a record over a ten-year period can be explained in no other way than through the influence of the instruction given in agriculture in the rural schools of the state. Other states have adopted similar laws, and through the influence of the Federal Government and the demand for greater efficie...

The ghosts of lost loved ones have always haunted us, but the undefined role of the dead, the dying, and the grieving in the digital world is an ever-growing cultural haunting. This paper explores how memories of the dead are shifted and changed in the deceased’s lingering digital presence, how grief is altered by the digital world, and the uncertainties that arise with no etiquette book to guide us through death in the digital world. As this new phenomenon encroaches on our lives, where does technological innovation used to remember the dead meet an attempt to resurrect them?

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