QUESTIONS 443 



3. More Equipment. Determine, if possible, what additional equipment 

 you would want in each of the cases above referred to. 



4. Make a regional score card for use in choosing the region for farming. 

 Give proper percentages for each of the points to be considered. 



5. Make a farm score card for use in choosing the farm itself, indicating 

 the proper percentages for each of the points to be considered. 



6. Score the region in which you live, using the regional score card. 



7. Classifying Farms. Make lists of farmers for five miles along a certain 

 highway, and classify these according to type of farming followed by each. 

 If this survey can be extended over a larger area, so much the better. 



8. Storing Farm Products. Investigate, either by inquiry or by visiting, 

 the methods of storing crops for winter sale or winter use. Compare the places 

 and methods of storing fruits, root crops, corn, small grain, cotton, tobacco, 

 and other staple products. 



9. Marketing Staple Crops. Investigate and write a report showing the 

 methods of marketing staple crops by the farmers of your region. 



10. Marketing Perishable Crops. Make a report for perishable crops, 

 such as fruits, fresh vegetables, eggs, butter and others, as suggested in pre- 

 ceding exercise. 



11. Farm Accounts. Determine if, possible, what farmers, if any, keep 

 systematic records of the cost of production of crops, and of other farm opera- 

 tions. Compare the numbers who do this with numbers of those who do not. 

 Report the reasons assigned by farmers for not keeping accounts. 



12. Compare methods of recording in use and show the advantages of 

 those which you consider best. 



QUESTIONS 



1. Enumerate the things a good farmer needs to know. 



2. Mention the several advantages to consider in deciding whether to be a 



farmer or not. 



3. What are the methods of getting started into farming? 



4. Compare these methods. 



5. Describe fully the three main features of the region in which you might 



wish to farm. 



6. Give a list of the points to consider in choosing the particular farm in a 



given region. 



7. Give all the suggestions you can to be considered in equipping a farm. 



8. What things will govern the type of farming to follow? 



9. Give some directions for replanning an old farm. For planning a new farm. 



10. What attention should be given to the steady employment and use of 



farm labor and teams? 



11. What benefits arise from improved methods of marketing? 



12. What examples of bad methods in marketing have you observed? 



13. Give examples of cooperative marketing if possible from your own 



observation. 



14. Describe a method of cost-accounting. 



15. What are the chief causes of losses in farming? 



16. What losses have you actually observed? 



References. U. S. Farmers' Bulletins : 242, An Example of Model Farm- 

 ing; 347, The Repair of Farm Equipment; 370, Replanning a Farm for 

 Profit; 437, A System of Tenant Farming and Its Result; 445, Marketing Eggs 

 Through the Creamery; 474, The Use of Paint on the Farm; 475, Ice Houses; 

 480. Practical Methods of Disinfecting Stables; 511, Farm Book-keeping; 

 572, A System of Farm Cost-accounting; 589, Homemade Silos; 593, How to 

 Use Farm Credit; 635, What the Farm Contributes Directly to the Farmer's 

 Living; 656, Community Egg Circle; 703, Suggestions for Parcel Post Mar- 

 keting; 746, The Farmers' Income. Also 239, 277, 403, 432, 461. 



