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How can green feed be provided (a) in winter ; (6) as pas- 

 turage in summer? How may exercise for the fowls be 

 secured through a feeding scheme? What provision may 

 be made for "picking material"? What provision must 

 be made for drinking vessels, and for a water supply ? 



15. In the marketing of poultry and eggs (a) what advan- 

 tage is there in direct sales to the consumer ; (6) what care 

 should be exercised in grading the quality of the product 

 sold? 



16. Name some diseases to which fowls are subject. 

 What preventive measures should be employed? 



17. State the educational values possible for boys and 

 girls (a) from school courses in poultry keeping ; (6) from the 

 care of poultry at home. What relation may this school 

 instruction in poultry keeping have (a) to community life ; 

 (6) to exhibits at the schoolhouse, and at Fairs? 



THE HORSE 



1. Do you have a horse at home ? If so, why do you 

 keep it ? (If not, why not ?) 



2. If a horse should get out of the barn some night and 

 go away, how could the owner know it as his horse when it 

 was found ? In what other ways might it be identified ? 



3. Why is it best to keep away from strange horses? 

 How does your horse behave toward you? Why so? In 

 driving, how do horses sometimes misbehave ? What makes 

 them do this? Why do horses so seldom misbehave? 



4. Who else that you know keeps a horse? For what 

 use? What kind of horse best serves (a) the man who 

 delivers heavy loads of coal; (b) the livery man whose 



