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Reading-Course for Farmers. 



BULLETINS IN THE READING-COURSE FOR FARMERS 



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1. The Soil: What It Is.*(i) 



2. Tillage and Underdrainage : 



Reasons Why. 

 Fertility of the Soil. 

 Plant Food from the Soil. 

 Plant Food from the Air. 

 Balanced Rations. 

 Computing Rations. 

 Sample Rations. 

 Soiling, Silage and Roots. 

 Pastures and Meadows. 

 How a Fruit Tree Grows. 

 Tilling and Fertilizing. 



14. Spraying and Pruning. 



15. Marketing Fruit. 



16. Building Poultry Houses.* 



17. Feeding of Laying Hens. 

 Rations for Poultry.* 

 Raising Chickens. 

 Marketing Poultry Products. 

 The Care of the Milk on the 



Farm. 



The Composition of Milk 

 and Cream and their By- 

 products. 



Dairy Stables. 



Farm Butter Making. 



The Dairy Herd. 



Tasteful Farm Buildings. 



Tasteful Farm Yards. 



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Bulletins marked (*) are out of print. 

 Bulletins marked (i) to be reprinted. 



The Plan of the Farm-House. 



Water Supplies for Farm Res- 

 idences. 



Barns and Outbuildings. 



Clubs and Correspondence.* 



Fertilizers and Fertility. 



Poultry House Construc- 

 tion.* (i) 



Seed Corn for Grain and Silage. 



Fighting the Fungi in their 

 Winter Quarters. 



Agricultural Extension. 



Drainage. 

 T^^. Experiments. 

 39. Alfalfa. 



Tillage and Fertilization in 

 Orchards. 



Improving Plants by Selection 

 or Breeding. 



Improving Corn by Seed Selec- 

 tion. 



Methods of Breeding and Im- 

 proving the Potato Crop. 



Horse Breeding in New York 

 State. 



The Importance of Constitu- 

 tional Vigor in the Breeding 

 of Poultry. 



The Brood Mare. 



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