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(e) Comon cereals: corn, wheat, oats, rye, 

 barley, buckwheat, rice. 



(/) Ears of corn: flint, dent, pop, sweet. 

 Secure ears showing the qualities that good 

 ears should have. A lesson in corn-judging 

 may profitably be given. 



(g) Fertilizers: nitrate of soda, dried 

 blood, ground bone, acid phosphate, muriate 

 of potash, and as many others as are used in 

 the neighborhood. 



(h) Feeds for farm animals: bran, mid- 

 dlings, gluten feed, buckwheat middlings, 

 and others in use. The local feed merchant 

 and seedman might lend their aid in supply- 

 ing samples of these feeds, samples of ferti- 

 lizers and seeds. 



(i) Fruit. In the fall, different varieties 

 of apples, pears, plums, and grapes could be 

 collected, probably with much enthusiasm, by 

 the children. Part of an afternoon could 

 be given for a short talk on fruit-growing 

 by a local fruit-grower, after which the sam- 

 ples of fruit could be eaten. Similar col- 



