FARM AND HOME MANAGEMENT 461 



plants in the rows a space suited to the plant, the 

 soil and the climate. 



4. Use intensive tillage during the growing per- 

 iod of the crops. 



5. Secure a high content of humus in the soil by 

 the use of legumes, barnyard manure, farm refuse, and 

 commercial fertilizers. 



6. Carry out a systematic crop rotation with a 

 winter cover crop on southern farms. 



7. Accomplish more work in a day by using more 

 horse power and better implements. 



8. Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilis- 

 ing all the waste products and idle lands of the farm. 



9. Produce all the food required for the men and 

 animals on the farm. 



10. Keep an account of each farm product, in 

 order to know from which the gain or loss arises. 



TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION 



1. Name all the different enterprises on your home 

 farm. 



2. What is meant by seasonal distribution of labor? 

 Name some of the things that a farmer and his men can 

 do on rainy days in the summer and on stormy days in the 

 winter. 



3. Make an inventory of your farm supplies at the 

 present time, such as stock, machinery, grain, hay, etc. 

 Make a list of purchases in these lines during the last year. 

 Make a list of the sales. Talk with your father about keep- 

 ing under his direction a set of farm records for a year. 



4. Choose some farm in the neighborhood and, under 

 the teacher's direction, make a plan for reorganizing its 

 management as to cropping, stock, machinery, buildings, 

 drainage, laying off of fields, fencing, etc., with a view to 

 better results. 



