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AGRICULTURE 



seeding in this region the Burt and Red Rustproof are quite 

 satisfactory. 



TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION 



1. How many acres in your father's farm? How many 

 acres are cultivated this year? How many acres in grass 



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(A) Sixty Day, grain medium-sized, slender, yellow: (B) Red 

 Rustproof, grain large, plump, reddish-brown; (C) North 

 Finnish Black, grain medium-sized, plump, black; (D) Swedish 

 Select, grain white, large and plump. 



land and pasture? How many acres in garden, orchard, 

 lawn and barnyard? 



2. How many acres are devoted (1) to corn; (2) to 

 wheat; (3) to oats; (4) to other farm crops? What per- 

 centage is the acreage of each crop to all the land culti- 

 vated? To the whole farm? 



3. Find how many acres altogether in the farms rep- 

 resented by the pupils in the school. Then answer each 

 of the four questions asked in number "2" for all these 

 farms summed together. How do the percentages for each 



