CORNELL READING-COURvSK 

 FOR FARMERvS 



QUIZ ON 



READING-LESSON 



NO 3 



JANUARY. 1899 

 By L. H. bailey. 



These questio7is constitute a supplenie7it to Reading Lesson No. j 

 (" Fertility of the Soil : what it is''). Its purpose is to induce the 

 reader to think carefully about what he reads. Answer the ques- 

 tions as best you can and returyi this sheet to us (2 cents postage). 

 We want these answers in order that we may know what interest 

 you are taking in the Readi?ig- Course and how much good you are 

 getting from it ; and we want to help you when you do not under 

 stand the problems involved. We are after results, and do not care 

 about the handwriting nor the grammar. These answers are for 

 our own examijiation and are not to be made public. We should be 

 glad of a7iy comments 07i these lessons. Those who answer the ques- 

 tions will receive future lessons. 



You 7nay 7iot be able at first to see the point to some of the ques- 

 tio7is. It is the purpose of these questio7is to set you to thinki7ig 

 about the problem i7i ha7id, rather than to find out all that you knoiv 

 about the subject. 



When the reading season is over, we hofe to send you a Lesson 

 co7itaining correct answers to all the questions in the five Lessons. 



Before spring opens, we propose to suggest how you ca7i fi7id out 

 what fertilizer you need to apply to your laiid 



Do plants obtain all their food from the soil ? 



What do you mean when you say that soil is exhausted. — that 

 it has no more plant-food in it, ormerely that it fails to produce 

 crops ? 



