398 AGRICULTURE 



of the seeds of all the trees in your vicinity. Learn to 

 identify these seeds. Plant some of each, and learn to iden- 

 tify the young plant of each variety. Consider the pos- 

 sibility of starting a tree seed bed on the school ground, 

 where the seeds of the different trees can be planted and 

 seedlings raised for study or replanting, either on the school 

 grounds or at the homes. 



3. How can you tell the age of a tree after it is cut 

 down? Find some freshly cut tree and discover its age. 

 Can you tell from the annual rings any years when the 

 tree did not make a good growth? 



4. Make a collection of the leaves of all the different 

 trees available, and learn to identify them. 



5. What is the difference between plain-sawn and quar- 

 ter-sawn lumber ? Look at different pieces of oak furniture, 

 and decide whether the lumber was plain or quarter-sawn. 

 Why does some hard pine flooring have a tendency to splin- 

 ter up, while other does not ? 



6. Locate on the map of the United States the forest 

 reserves of our country ; the lumber producing sections. 



7. Estimate the cost of producing a ten-acre wood lot 

 of some prevailing trees of your section. 



8. Write down the names of all the different trees 

 you can think of common to your state, in the order of 

 their importance to the farm. 



4. Demonstrations on Home Grounds and Wood Lot 



1. Demonstrate how properly to remove and trans- 

 plant a shrub or bush. 



2. Demonstrate how to make a tree graft ; how to make 

 a bud graft. 



3. Demonstrate how to prune the different kinds of 

 trees. 



4. Show the proper method of spraying for different 

 insects, diseases and blights. 



5. Show how to treat the tree-trunk to prevent insects 

 from passing from the ground into the tree. 



6. Demonstrate different methods of tree surgery, such 



