12^ ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE 



lowed to lie on the ground to ret. Hemp fiber is mostly 

 used for the manufacture of carpet warp and rope. 

 Questions: 



1. What do you understand by the term fiber crops? 



2. Tell what you can about the uses and culture of cotton. 



3. Tell what you can about the uses and culture of flax fiber. 

 Arithmetic: 



1. If Texas produces 25% of the 12,000,000 bales of cotton pro- 

 duced in the United States, how much is produced in Texas? 



2. If 5^ of the 12,000,000 bales of cotton produced in the United 

 States is exported, how many bales are exported? 



3. If a farmer produces 50 acres of cotton yielding 400 lbs! per 

 acre, how many 500-pound bales will he produce? 



Exercises: 



1. Bring to school seeds of all the miscellaneous crops mentioned 

 in this chapter. Learn to identify them. 



2. How many of these crops are raised in your neighborhood? 

 Find out what each crop is used for. What part of each plant is the 

 principal object of its cultivation? 



3. Try to find a rape plant and a rutabaga plant and see whether 

 you can tell them apart. What are the differences? 



4. Find specimens of millet and pigeon grass. Ascertain and 

 contra^ their differences till you can tell them apart. 



5. Examine a flax plant or some flax straw and see whether you 

 can find the fiber in it that is used for making cloth, rope, etc. In 

 what part is it? 



