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Value of Food Records. 



[Feb., 



will have been carried out in out-of -school hours at home, counts 

 are also given. In conjunction with the above course the major 

 enterprises for the first year would probably consist of (i) the 

 sole charge of twenty to a hundred hens, with the rearing of 

 chickens, the keeping of a complete set of accounts, the purchase 

 of feed and the marketing of the products, or (ii) the care of a 

 quarter to half an acre of garden, again with full accounts. In 

 the second year both of these would be kept on and an acre of 

 some farm crop added, in the third a pure bred dairy calf to be 

 reared to maturity and fed and cared for scientifically, and in 

 the fourth perhaps a complete set of farm accounts. Such 

 " enterprises " or " home projects ' ? are now regarded as the 

 most vital part of the training and are often, when properly 

 supervised, an education in themselves. Special time is allotted 

 in the class room for the discussion of problems which come up 

 week by week in the project at home and also for the visiting by 

 all the other boys of the different enterprises. In all cases the 

 boy pockets the profits after paying his bills. 



What the future development of this educational experiment 

 will be it is impossible to say, but it was fascinating to watch the 

 formal lecture being replaced by the round table discussion and 

 to see the eagerness with which all the available text books 

 bearing upon the boy's enterprise were devoured as w r ell as the 

 keen desire to launch out into the fields of chemistry, physics, 

 botany, zoology, entomology and physiology in order to find a 

 solution to the problems of daily existence. 



THE VALUE OF FOOD RECORDS 

 IN CONNECTION WITH 

 MILK RECORDING SOCIETIES. 



G. H. Garead, 

 Agricultural Organiser for Kent. 



Ever since the formation of the Kent Milk Eecording Society 

 the members of the Society have had the opportunity, when- 

 ever the milk recorder paid them a visit, of having the winter 

 rations fed to the cows weighed and particulars forwarded to the 

 agricultural organiser for criticism and advice. It is the object of 



