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the grain to stand in the shock ; will it pay to stack? (Con- 

 sider also the better quality of grain and straw.) 



7. Make out a debit and credit sheet showing the 

 proper method of keeping an account with a crop of oats 

 covering the entire season, beginning with plowing and 

 closing with harvesting, thrashing and marketing of the 

 oats. 



8. Test one hundred grains of seed oats for vitality by 

 the use of the rag-doll tester or blotter tester, and estimate 

 the percentage of strong, weak and dead seed. From this 

 base your estimate on the loss of crop if all the oats sown 

 in your home field are of the same standard of vitality. 



9. Secure a copy of a score-card for oats and judge 

 twenty or thirty grains of oats. 



10. Sketch a map of the United States and locate the 

 oat producing states. From the last crop census record 

 the number of bushels of oats produced in each state. 

 What foreign countries produce oats ? 



5. Wheat and Oat Demonstrations 



1. Demonstrate the making of a vitality test for wheat 

 and oat seed. 



2. The method of separating chaffy wheat or oat and 

 weed seed from the better grade seed. 



3. How wheat and oats may be used for the table. The 

 girls can work out a number of recipes. 



4. In the field demonstrate the proper method of seed- 

 ing and, when equipment is available, the methods of pre- 

 paring seed bed, disking, fertilizing, etc. 



5. Demonstrate how to select individual wheat and oat 

 heads for seed. 



6. Wheat and Oat Play Contests 



Plan and carry out the following contest games : 



1. Variety naming contest. 



2. Wheat and oat judging contest. 



