APPENDIX 401 



Fertilizing materials for exercises 52 and 57, if these are given. 



Six bushels of lime and 15 pounds of alfalfa seed, if exercise No. 

 58 is given. 



One pound of lime. 



One-half pound copper sulfate. 



One pound resin. 



One-fourth pound tallow. 



One ball No. 18 knitting cotton. 



Land, any amount from one-fourth acre to a farm. 



If the school does not have chemical supplies, apparatus and chemi- 

 cals for preparing nitrogen, oxygen, carbon-dioxid and hydrogen will 

 be needed. (See a text book of chemistry.) 



Bottles, tin cans and other supplies may be brought from the homes 

 by the students as needed. 



TABLE 2 

 AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY 



Fortunately, there are so many good bulletins on agriculture that 

 a good library may be secured at little expense. 



The school should secure a complete set of the Farmers' Bulletins 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. These may be obtained 

 from the Congressman of the district or by writing to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. These bulletins should be bound 

 or should be punched and tied into volumes, with manila covers. 

 Regular binding, which will cost $6 to $12, is to be preferred. 



The teacher or members of the class may write for additional 

 copies of such Fanners' Bulletins as are much used for collateral read- 

 ing, so that each student may have his own copies of the important 

 numbers. 



Ask the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., to place the 

 school on the mailing list, to receive the monthly list of publications, 

 and to receive the following: 



One copy of Circular No. 4, Division of Publication; Farmers' 

 Bulletin Subject Index; one copy of the List of Publications for free 

 distribution; one copy of the List of Publications for sale. Bulletins 

 in the former list will be sent free to any address; those in the latter 

 list may be purchased, or some of them may be secured from Congress- 

 men. 



Write to your Congressman for such copies of the Yearbook of the 



