APPENDIX 



TABLE IV. SUGGESTED LIST OF TYPICAL HOME PROJECTS 



[Those marked with an asterisk are outlined in the manual.] 

 I. PRODUCTION PROJECTS 



Field Crops 



i. *Growing Corn for Profit 



2. Growing One-half Acre of Potatoes 



3. Growing One-half Acre of Cotton 



4. Finding the High Yielding Ear for Seed 



5. Growing an Acre of Alfalfa 



Orchard and Garden Crops 



6. 'Growing a Vegetable Garden for Profit 



7. A Home Fruit Garden 



8. Planting and Caring for Fruit Trees 



9. Managing Bearing Orchards 



10. Renovating a Neglected Orchard 



11. Strawberry Production 



12. Commercial Vegetable Garden 



Animal Husbandry 



13. The Care of a Sow and a Litter of Pigs 



14. Feeding Weanling Pigs for Market 



15. Raising Baby Beef 



16. Raising a Calf 



17. Raising a Group of Lambs 



18. Raising Dairy Calves 



19. Dairy Cow Management 



20. Keeping a Yearly Record of Dairy Cows 



21. *Keeping Two Dozen Hens for Egg Production 



22. *Growing Poultry for Profit 



23. 'Managing Incubators and Brooders 



24. Managing Half-dozen Stands of Bees 



II. SOIL PROJECTS 



I. 



2. 



Renovating Worn Soil by Means of Crop Rota- 

 tion, the Use of Green or Barnyard Manure 

 or Commercial Fertilizers 



The Value of Legumes as a Preceding Crop 



Preventing Surface Erosion by Means of Ter- 

 racing, Dams, and Tiles or Underdrainage 

 'Preparation of a Seed Bed for Wheat 

 'Determining What the Soil Needs 



III. IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS 



i. Making a Self-feeder for Swine 6. 



2. Making a Farrowing House for Sows 7. 



3. Making a Brooder for Chickens 8. 



4. Making Chicken Houses 



5. 'Construction and Use of a Hotbed or Cold Frame 



'The Use of Concrete on the Farm 

 Planting the Home Grounds 

 Planting and Care of Trees and Ornamentals on 

 the School Grounds 



IV. COOPERATIVE SCHOOL PROJECTS 



Making an Exhibit at the County or State 

 Fair of the Farm and Garden Products by 

 the Students in Their Home-project Work, 

 together with Itemized Statements of the 

 Yields, Cost of Production, and Profits of 

 Each Product 



2. Maintaining a Similar Exhibit in the County 

 Agent's Office or in Some Other Public 

 Place, but on a Smaller Scale and Changed 

 Periodically so as to Bring in All the Stu- 

 dents and All Important Products during 

 the Year 



V. CONTROL PROJECTS 



1. Hog Cholera 



2. Texas Fever 



3. Chinch Bugs 



4- 

 5- 

 6. 



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Grasshoppers 

 Hessian Fly 

 Gypsy Moth 



