CONTENTS 



Department Bulletin No. 651. — A Farm-management Study in Ander- 

 son County, South Carolina: Page- 

 Introduction 1 



Summary 3 



Description of the area. .". 4 



' General characteristics of the farms 6 



Cost of producing crops 8 



Methods of measuring success in farming 10 



Yields 11 



Acres per work animal and size of farms 17 



Combination of enterprises . 22 



Crop rotation 32 



Department Bulletin No. 652. — The Wet Lands op Southern Louisiana 

 and Their Drainage: 



Introduction 1 



Location and general conditions 2 



Climate 3 



Soils 5 



Crops 15 



Natural drainage conditions 16 



Description of reclamation districts 21 



Willswood plantation 22 



New Orleans Lakeshore Land Co. tract 26 



Des Allemands drainage district 30 



Gueydan drainage district, subdistrict No. 1 : 34 



Results of investigations of reclaimed tracts 37 



Factors affecting drainage by pumping in southern Louisiana 38 



Investigations to be made before reclamation 38 



Area of district 38 



Levees 39 



Interior ditch systems. 42 



Pumping plant 45 



Utilization of land 66 



Financial -. 67 



Success in drainage 67 



Department Bulletin No. 653. — Lessons on Corn for Rural Elementary 

 Schools: , 



Need of study of corn in schools 1 



Lesson I. — Kinds of corn 1 



Lesson II. — Judging corn .- . 2 



Lesson III. — Seed corn 3 



Lesson IV. — Testing seed corn 4 



Lesson V. — Place of corn in crop rotation 4 



Lesson VI. — Preparation of the seed bed 4 



Lesson VII. — Fertilizers and how to apply them 5 



Lesson VIII. — When and how to plant field corn 5 



Lesson IX. — The cultivation of corn 6 



Lesson X. — Corn diseases and pests 6 



Lesson XL — The food value of corn 



Lesson XII. — The botany of corn 7 



Adaptation to community 9 



Use of texts and references .- : 10 



Use of illustrative material 10 



Observing corn day 11 



Suggestive correlations 12 



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