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PIG RAISING
A Manual for Pig Clubs
BY
ARETAS W. NOLAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION,
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
AND
JAMES H. GREENE
STATE LEADER, JUNIOR EXTENSION SERVICE,
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
CHICAGO NEW YORK
ROW, PETERSON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1918
ROW, PETERSON
AND COMPANY
PREFACE
Whatever may be the status of the project systemof teaching other subjects, it is coming to be quitegenerally agreed that the home project offers one ofthe best methods for teaching elementary agriculture.The essentials of the home project plan are as follows:(1) A definite, detailed plan for work at home coveringa season or more or less extended period of time;(2) it must be a part of the instruction of the school inagriculture; (3) the parents and pupils should agreewith the teacher upon the plan; (4) the home workmust have competent supervision; (5) records and reportsof time, method, cost and income must be honestlykept and submitted to the teacher.
In the study and practice of a vocational subjectsuch as agriculture, we may distinguish three aspects,each involving distinct pedagogical characteristics andspecial problems of administration. The first includesthe concrete, specific, or practical work, such as theactual making of a garden, the raising of poultry, orthe growing of corn; the second involves a study ofsuch technical sciences as botany, physics, chemistry,and the principles of the agricultural science relatingdirectly to the subject of agriculture under consideration;the third aspect includes such general informationas the history, economic values, and other interestingfacts of that particular phase of agriculturebeing studied. Doctor Snedden states in his “Problemsof Secondary Education,” that the keynote of the[4]newer education in these fields is to be found in thedevelopment of facilities for obtaining practical experience,under conditions as nearly approximatingthose of the actual vocation as can be obtained.
It is for the purpose of making as practical as possiblesome of the principles of scientific agriculture forthe boys and girls of the public schools, and of givingdirect vocational value to such work that this littlebook, the third of a series, is submitted. The planoutline