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(lessons are sent only as you answer the question 

 paper of the previous lesson) of ten of them: 



Fertilizers and Farm Manures 



Sheep-Husbandry 



Stock Feeding 



Beef Production 



Swine-Husbandry 



Dressing and Curing Meats 



Home Vegetable Gardening 



Butter Making 



Farm Forestry 



Farm Bookkeeping 



Some of them notably Fertilizers and Farm 

 Manures, Farm Forestry, and Dressing and Curing 

 Meats I found extremely useful and informative. 

 Others, for a variety of reasons, were not so help- 

 ful. The difference in climate between Montgom- 

 ery County in the southeastern and State College 

 in the northwestern parts of Pennsylvania is 

 enough to lay the course in Home Vegetable Gar- 

 dening, for example, open to the need for experi- 

 mental verification. Again, none of the courses I 

 have taken has been edited down to date since it 

 was first drafted, twenty or thirty years ago. In 

 some cases this does not matter, in others it could 

 result iri more harm than good. I have not taken 

 the course in Poultry Keeping, but if the instruc- 

 tion it gives is based on the poultry practice of 

 my childhood it is worse than useless. Poultry 



