6. Show how there may be waste and bad management in (a) car-3 of 

 machinery, (b) time, (c) kind of milk cows kept, (d) care of animals, (e) 

 bad seed, (f) selling only such products as wheat, hay, corn, rather than 

 hogs, cattle, milk, etc. 



7. What must a successful farmer know? What personal qualities 

 make for success? What are the advantages of farm life? What ar 

 some of the disadvantages? What may be done to overcome the disadvan- 

 tages? 



8. Every large factory has an experiment room. Show the value of 

 a small piece of ground used to try out new crops such as- alfalfa, soy 

 bean, etc.? 



9. How can you get farm bulletins from the University? From the 

 Department of Agriculture? Of what value are these bulletins? 



History 



Test your knowledge of farm history by the following questions: 



1. What did the Indians teach the early settler about farming? 



2. Which of the principal farm products of your neighborhood, crops 

 and animals, are native to this country? 



3. Make a list of the machines found on your father's farm. What 

 was used before each was invented? About how long since it was invent- 

 ed? How did it affect farming? 



4. What does your father know about farming which your grand- 

 father did not know? 



5. Write a sketch of the life of the first settlers in your district, de- 

 scribing their food, clothing, shelter, crops, tools, educational opportuni- 

 ties, travel, amusements, hardships. 



6. Compare the work which your mother has to do in the home with 

 the work which your great grandmother had to do. 



7. How have railroads helped the farmer? When did this help come 

 to your neighborhood? 



8. Write the history of the hoof and mouth disease. 



9. What is the Department of Agriculture? What good does it do 

 your father? Look up its history. How do you get bulletins from it? . 



10. What is an agricultural college? What does it cost to attend an 

 agricultural college for a year? What would you learn there? How can 

 you get bulletins from the college? What bulletins have you. 



11. What is a farmers institute? Give an account of what is done at 

 a farmers' institute? 



12. What is a country agricultural agent? Who pays him? What 

 does he do? What is being done in your neighborhood to improve crops 

 in quality and quantity? 



13. Tell what each of the following men have done for farmers: (a) 

 Washington, (b) Seaman A. Knapp, (c) Burbank, (d) O. H. Kelley, (e) 

 Babcock. 



14. Write the history of your school, showing progress that has been 

 made since it was first started and pointing out ways in which it could be 

 improved still further. 



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