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9. Discuss its cultivation. 



10. Describe the plan of grading rice. 



11. Give a brief history of sorghum. 



12. Discuss the growing of sugar cane. 



13. Discuss sirup and sirup making. 



14. What can you say of the yields of sugar cane ? 



15. Calculate the value of forty acres of oats at sixty bushels to the acre 

 when oats are worth thirty-five cents per bushel. 



16. Compare the value of the oats in problem 15 with the value of forty 

 acres of corn at fifty bushels to the acre when corn is worth forty cents per 

 bushel. 



17. Compare these values with average production and average values in 

 your own locality on forty acres. 



REFERENCES 



Forage and Fiber Crops, Thomas F. Hunt. 



Forage Crops other than Grasses, Thomas Shaw. 



North America (Geographical Reader), Carpenter. 



Corn Judging, Shamel. 



Corn Breeding, Hopkins. 



Varieties of Corn, Station Bulletin 57, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Barley, Wahl-Henius. 



Rice, William C. Stubbs and W. R. Dodson, Louisiana Bulletin No. 61 



Rice, Amory Austin. 



Kaffir Corn, C. C. Geogeson. 



Broom Corn, Charles P. Hartley. 



Sorghum as a Forage Crop, Thomas A. Williams. 



Sorghum Sirup Manufacture, A. A. Denton. 



