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BULLETIN 281, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



the Monthly List of Publications if requested. This gives information as to new pub- 

 lications. 



2. So long as the supply lasts, Farmers' Bulletins may be had free from any Con- 

 gressman or from the United States Department of Agriculture direct. 



3. The Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, 

 D. C, will furnish free the price lists for Government publications on various topics, 

 including agriculture. Many of these are sold at a purely nominal price, but it rarely 

 ever pays to purchase those of a technical nature. 



The State agricultural college and experiment station should furnish you free — 



4. A list of available publications. 



5. Copies of popular and extension bulletins dealing with subjects of local and State 

 interest. 



6. The State club leader or county superintendent should furnish copies of printed 

 and inultigraphed information sent out through the extension service of the college of 

 agriculture. 



7. Cattle registry associations publish bulletins or booklets on particular breeds. 

 Manufacturers of farm machinery and fertilizer companies often issue valuable booklets, 

 and these are usually free on request. 



8. Farm papers and magazines often give special inducements to schools. In 

 other cases these may be brought from homes after they have been read there. 



9. The teacher should seek competent advice before purchasing books, as the 

 limited funds should be made to cover the most valuable books first. 



10. Filing boxes for bulletins may be made by remodeling pasteboard boxes and 

 reinforcing the corners and backs. Arrange either by subjects or numerically in sets, 

 using an index. Arrange photographs or other illustrations in a similar way. 



Have the pupils individually write requests for such material as is needed in dupli- 

 cate for class use. For library purposes use the name of the school or office rather 

 than a person's name for the mailing list.' 



X. AVERAGE FOOD COMPOSITION OF SOME CLUB PRODUCE.! 



Kind of food materials. 



Poultry, fowls 



Eggs, uncooked 



Whole milk 



Butter 



Corn meal 



White wheat bread. 

 Beans, white, dried. 



Potatoes 



Tomatoes 



Apples 



Refuse, 



Per ct. 

 25.9 

 11.2 



20.0 

 *25."6' 



Water. 



Per ct. 

 47.1 

 65. 5 

 87.0 

 11.0 

 12.5 

 35.3 

 12.6 

 62.6 

 94.3 

 63.3 



Total 

 indi- 

 gestible 



nu- 

 trients. 



Per ct. 

 1.2 

 1.1 



.5 

 4.9 

 3.3 

 2.9 

 7.9 

 1.2 



.5 

 1.2 



Digestible nutrients. 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Per ct. 



13.3 



12.7 



3.2 



1.0 



7.8 



7.8 



17.5 



1.5 



Pat. 



Per ct. 



11.7 



8.8 



3.S 



80.8 



1.7 



1.2 



1.6 



.1 



.4 



.3 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates. 



Per ct. 



5.0 



73.9 

 52.0 

 57.8 

 14.0 

 3.7 

 9.7 



Ash. 



Per ct. 

 0.5 



2.3 



2.6 

 .6 

 .4 

 .2 



Fuel 



value 



per 



pound. 



Calorics 



765 



635 



310 



3,410 



1,640 



1 , 200 



1,520 



295 



95 



190 



Nutri- 

 tive 

 ratio. 



4.3 



10.0 

 7.0 

 3.5 

 9.5 

 6.6 



34.7 



i Based upon Farmers' Bui. 142. Consult also Farmers' Buls. 22, 121, 182, 183, 249, 293, 295, 359, 363, 

 413, 535, 565. 



XI. SPELLING SUPPLEMENT. 



A county superintendent found that none of the textbooks in spelling used in his 

 county contained any of the following list of words used in the rural school agriculture. 

 Each teacher should compile his own list. 



Elementary agriculture: Rootstock, fertilizer, nitrogen, tillage, fungous, fungicide, 

 insect, ration, scion, osmosis, bacteria, silage, environment, grasshopper, onion, para- 

 site, vegetable, tubercles, propagation, codling moth, weevil, alfalfa, legumes, bien- 

 nials, pollination, hybrids, cankerworm, girdler, irrigation, horticulture, stigma, 

 pigweed, perennials, Bordeaux, shredder, bulletin, Clydesdale, Guernsey, aphis, 

 formalin, maize, nutritious, experiment, Aberdeen, bacillus, bindweed, dandelion, 



