170 LESSONS IN AGRICULTURE 



Practical Exercises 



1. Information About the Local Carrier 



Find out from your local carrier the following points 

 of information and write them up in the record of this 

 lesson : 



1. How many miles does the carrier travel in a day? 



2. What is the carrier's salary? 



3. What is the condition of the roads? 



4. How many daily and how many weekly papers 

 are delivered on the route T 



5. What is the average daily stamp cancel on this 

 route ? 



6. Does the postage of the route pay expenses? 



2, How to Use the Rural Free Delivery 



Each pupil in the class should write a letter to the 

 Department of Agriculture, addressed to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, Washmgton, D. C., or better still, to 

 your Congressman or Senator at Washington, and ask 

 for at least ten of the following Farmers' Bulletins: 

 (Copy this letter neatly in the note-book record of this 

 lesson.) 



Farmers' Bulletins 



No. 22. The Feeding of Farm Animals. 



No. 28. Weeds, and How to Kill Them. 



No. 35. Potato Culture. 



No. 41. Fowls: Care and Feeding. 



No. 42. Facts About Milk. 



No. 43. Sewage Disposal on the Farm. 



No. 44. Commercial Fertilizers. 



No. 49. Sheep Feeding. 



No. 51. Standard Varieties of Chickens. 



No. 54. Some Common Birds. 



No. 55. The Dairy Herd. 



No. 59. Bee-keeping. 



No. 62. Marketing Farm Produce. 



No. 66. Meadows and Pastures. 



