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Lesson d.—Milk for the Market. 



1. Developing a local trade. 



2. Milk shipments. 



3. Essentials toward success. 



Lesson 10. — The Farm Dairy House, 



1. Plans and construction. 



2. Equipment and arrangement. 



3. Water supply and methods of heating. 



4. Cooling facilities. 



5. Sanitation. 



Special reference : Farmers' Bulletin 689, Plan for a Small Dairy House. 

 Individual plans furnished by the Dairy Division, U. S. Dept. Agr. 



POULTRY. 



(Fifteen lessons; six double periods for practical work.) 



References — 



Suggestions on Poultry Raising for the Southern Farmer, Special Bulle- 

 tin, Office of Secretary of Agriculture. Also the following Farmers' 

 Bulletins: 51, Standard Varieties of Chickens; 64, Ducks and Geese; 

 200, Turkeys; 287, Poultry Management; 445, Marketing Eggs; 452, 

 Capons ; 530, Important Poultry Diseases ; 528, Hints to Poultry 

 Raisers; 562, Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs; 574, Poultry Houses; 

 585, Natural and Artificial Incubation of Hens' Eggs; 594, Shipping 

 Eggs by Parcel Post ; 624, Natural and Artificial Brooding of Chickens ; 

 682, Simple Trap Nest for Poultry; 697, Duck Raising; 767, Goose 

 Raising. 



Lesson 1. — Fowls: Origin and Place on the Fa/rm. 



1. Origin of the domestic fowl. 



2. Status of the poultry industry. 



3. Possibilities in poultry. 



Lesson 2. — Classification of Fowls. 



1. Definition of terms : Class, breed, variety, strain. 



2. Classification based on country of origin. 



3. Classification based on utility. 



4. Classification of American standard of perfection. 



Illustrative material for lessons 2, 3, 4, and 5: Charts, pictures, and 

 lantern slides showing types and breeds of fowls. 



Lesson 3. — Utility Types. 



1. Meat type. 



2. Egg type. 



3. General-purpose type. 



Lesson 4. — American and English Breeds. 



1. The Plymouth Rock. 



(a) Characteristics of breed. 

 (&) Varieties. 



2. The Wyandotte. 



3. The Rhode Islaiid Red. 



4. The Orpington. 



5. The Dorking. 



