AGRICULTURE 



AGRICULTURE 



OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON AGRICULTURE 



Outline 



I. What It is 

 II. Its Importance 



( 1 ) Practically all foodstuffs produced by 



it 

 < 2 ) Almost all clothing materials 



III. History and Program 



(1) Primitive Methods 



(2) Animal labor 



(3) Modern machinery 



(4) Decreased cost of production 



IV. Causes of Progress 



(1) Better transportation 



(a) Roads 



(b) Railways 



(c) Waterways 



(2) Farm machinery 



(3) Application of chemistry to soils 



(4) Spread of agricultural education 



(a) Colleges 



(b) Rural schools 



(c) Clubs and institutes 



(5) Scientific farming 



(6) New methods of combating disease 



and insect pests 



V. Branches of Agriculture 



(1) Grain raising 



(2) Other crops 



(a) Potatoes 



(b) Flax 



(c) Cotton 



(d) Tobacco 



(e) Forage crops, etc. 



(3) Horticulture raising of 



(a) Fruits 



(b) Garden vegetables 



(c) Flowers 



(4) Stock-raising 



(5) Dairying 



(6) Poultry-raising 



(7) Bee-keeping 



VI. Future PoNihllitii 



-governed by 



( 1 ) Increase in land value 



(2) Increasing demand for food products 



(3) Governmental assistance 



(4) New investigations 



VII. Improved Rural Conditions due 



to 



(1) Better communication facilities 



(a) Telephone 



(b) Automobile 



(c) Rural mail delivery 



(d) Parcel post 



(2) Spread of education 



(a) Agricultural courses in many 



schools 



(b) Periodicals 



(c) Traveling libraries 



(d) Consolidated schools 



VIII. Specific Topics 



(1) Farm equipment 



(2) Soils 



(a) Formation 



(b) Classification 



(c) Texture 



(d) Relative value 



(e) Exhaustion 



(3) Fertilization 



(4) Drainage and irrigation 



(5) Cultivation 



(6) Harvesting 



( 7 ) Crops 



(a) Localization 



(b) Relative values 



(8) Seed 



(a) Testing 



(b) Methods of seeding 



(9) Plant and animal diseases 



(10) Weeds 



(11) Farm arithmetic 



Questions 



How does agriculture rank in importance among the industries? 



Can you think of any common article of food with the production of which the 



farmer has nothing to do? 

 Are the textile industries as dependent upon the farmer's activities as are those 



connected with food? 



What is that branch of agriculture called which has to do with the raising of fruit? 

 How are the birds of use to the farmer? 

 What is a silo? Has it played a very large 1 part in recent agricultural development? 



