Civics 



Test your ideas of citizenship by the following: 



1. If you were elected school clerk what would you do to make your 

 school a better one? 



2. What kinds of taxes do we pay and what do we get in return? 

 Get a tax receipt from your father and be definite in your answers. Are 

 taxes a blessing or an evil? 



3. What roads in your district need to be improved? 



4. What other public improvements might be made? 



5. Describe your day's work if you were a member of the legislature 

 of your state. Explain how you would introduce a bill and what is done 

 with it to get it through. Write one bill you would introduce if you were 

 a member of the legislature. What qualities make a good member of the 

 legislature. 



6. Should your mother vote as well as your father? 



7. Tell what you would have to do were you (a) drawn on jury, (b) 

 subpoenaed as a witness, (c) elected county superintendent of schools. 



8. Name all the schools that we support by taxation and tell what 

 good we derive from each. 



9. What is the value of (a) pure food laws, (b) milk inspection laws, 

 (c) weed laws, (d) fish and game laws? 



10. How is your community provided with (a) high school advantages, 

 (b) churches, (c) farmers' clubs? 



11. Compare the value of land near a city in your county with the 

 value of land far from the city. Account for the difference. Compare the 

 value now with that of 20 years ago. 



12 What is a good road? Look up the history of Macadam. What is 

 a macadam road? What does a good road cost a mile to build? How does 

 a good road affect the value of farm property? How does it affect schools, 

 churches, social life? 



13. What is the most common form of rent in the neighborhood share 

 or cash? Are tenants or owners more likely to improve the farm, the farm 

 home, the community? Why? 



Hygiene 



1. What are the most common communicable diseases in your neigh- 

 borhood? How do we catch them? How can we prevent them? 



2. Why do more children, especially babies, die during the fly season 

 than at any other time? Explain how to get rid of the fly? 



3. How may the farm home be made more sanitary? The farm well? 



5. Name some things which would make the farm home more com- 

 fortable. 



6. Secure from the state departments, from the State University, and 

 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, bulletins giving plans for sani- 

 tary outside toilets, etc. 



7. How may the drainage of the farm yard affect the health of the 

 family? Draw diagrams to show. 



8. At what temperature must milk be kept in order for it to be safe 

 milk to feed babies? How may this be accomplished? How many farm 

 homes in your neighborhood are supplied with ice? 



9 How should an ice house be built? What is the nearest place from 

 which ice can be drawn in the winter? Does an ice supply in your neigh- 

 borhood cost much money? Much labor? 



10. Give two reasons why manure should be hauled to the fields as 

 made. 



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