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Lesson 32.— Marketing. 
1. The fruit market as it now exists. 
2. Building up_a private trade. 
3. Cooperative marketing. 
4, Advertising. 
Special references.—Handling and Shipping Citrus Fruits in the Gulf States, 
Farmers’ Bulletin 696. Articles in the following Yearbooks: 1905, Handling of Fruit 
for Transportation; 1910, Cooperation in Handling and Marketing Fruit; 1910, Pre- 
cooling of Fruit. 
EXERCISE 12.—A Fruit Exhibit. Judging Fruits. 
Special references on plant breeding.—The following Bulletins of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry: 167, New Methods of Plant Breeding; 165, Application of Some of 
the Principles of Heredity to Plant Breeding. Articles in the following Yearbooks: 
1897, Hybrids and Their Utilization in Plant Breeding; 1898, Improvement of 
Plants by Selection; 1899, Progress of Plant Breeding in the United States; 1901, 
Progress in Plant and Animal Breeding; 1910, New Methods of Plant Breeding; 1911, 
Plant Introduction for the Plant Breeder. 
Lesson 33.—Improvement of Fruits. 
1. Law of variation. 
2. Law of heredity. 
3. Selection—natural and artificial. 
Lesson 34.—IJmprovement of Fruits—Continued. 
1. Methods of increasing variation. 
2. Selection according to ideals. 
3. Testing hereditary powers. 
4. Relation to methods of propagation. 
Lesson 35.—Improvement of Fruits—Continued. 
1. Some things which have been accomplished by plant breeders, 
2. Future possibilities. 
3. Work of farmer v. work of specialist. 
Suggested Home Projects— 
. Care and management of bearing orchard. 
. Establishing of home orchard. 
. Renovation of old orchard. 
. Ridding orchards of insect pests and diseases. 
. Top-working trees to more desirable varieties. 
. Harvesting and marketing fruit crops. 
. Production projects with strawberries and other small fruits. 
Suggestions for Group Projects— 
If the school owns a farm upon which an orchard is located, the 
class in fruit growing might be given the care and management of 
the school orchards as a means of applying their classroom instruction 
and for securing practical experience upon which to base the instruc- 
tion of the classroom. Some successful schools which have not 
owned orchards have leased neighboring orchards and turned their. 
management over to the students in horticulture, who did all the 
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1See Department Bulletin 346, Home Projects in Secondary Courses in Agriculture, for outline of this 
project. 
