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and poultry, and the inspection of meats for tlie market in relation to human 

 welfare and health. If you will look in the Yearbook of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture for 1915, and read the article entitled, "Animal Diseases and Our 

 Food-Supply," you will find many facts desirable to know. The discovery of the 

 carriers of malaria, yellow fever, and bubonic plague was led up to by investiga- 

 tions on cattle-tick fever, for instance, while the figures of annual loss from 

 diseases of animals and poultry, with statistics of work already done in sup- 

 pressing them or producing immunity to them, show what a great opportunity 

 many a bright student of these common creatures may have, in adding to knowl- 

 edge, economic resources, and human welfare. Begin now to study with a 

 desire to find out the truth of the world about you in a practical, thorough 

 manner; learn to eat properly a sufficient amount of wholesome food, and, above 

 all, cultivate happiness in whatever you undertake. These three maxims of 

 right living and right thinking will do much to assure you perfect health, 

 contentment, and joyful anticipation of each coming day. — A. H. W. 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. Make a series of charts to represent the distributions of cereals. Have a wheat- 

 chart, a corn-chart, a rye-chart, etc. Hang each one up in turn, with a picture of the 

 growing crop, and pass around a bottle of the seed, showing what part or parts are used 

 in making flour, meal, cereals, etc. Make this study a preparation for Bird and Arbor 

 Day exercises incidentally. 



2. What is a ruminant? an ungulate? 



3. How many different animals can you name which are ruminants? 



4. How many breeds of cattle can you name? 



5. Where do Ayrshire and polled Angus cattle come from? What is each most useful 

 for in our food-supply? 



6. Describe Jersey and Guernsey cattle and give their history. 



7. Which breeds of sheep have fine wool? Which are most used to produce mutton? 

 Name some of the best-known breeds and tell something about the value of each one. 



8. To what kinds of birds does the term poultry apply? Is poultry a meat, or a 

 meat substitute? Look up the use of the term "meat." 



9. Which is easiest to raise, turkeys, chickens, ducks or geese? What are guinea-fowl? 



10. Look up the development of agriculture in Argentina. What was the original 

 breed of cattle there? Why were Durham, Shorthorn, Hereford and other breeds intro- 

 duced? How much wheat and corn are produced there? 



11. How are cattle used in India? Did you ever see cows used in the harness? or 

 trotting bullocks attached to wheeled carriages? Have the great famines of India 

 affected the supply of cattle there? 



12. Do you know of any cattle with humps on their backs? Where are such cattle 

 found? What other kinds of animals are humped? Are they related to cattle? 



13. How are cows cared for in Holland? What is much of their milk used for? 



14. Look up the history of the pig in Servia, of poultry in France, sheep in Australia 

 and of goats in Switzerland. (See "Encyclopedia Hritannica.") 



15. Do any birds protect or help protect cattle from the insects which annoy them 

 and often cause disease? 



16. How did the Cowbird get its name? 



17. Learn something of the life-history of cattle-ticks, shcfp-ticks, and of "black- 

 head" among poultry, especially among turkeys. 



