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Exercise 5. — Making Hog House or Poultry House. 
This may be assigned as a group practicum as suggested in Farmers' 
Bulletin 638, Exercise 18, Constructing an Individual Hog House, of 
it may be assigned as an individual home practicum. 
Lesson 9. — Other Buildings. 
1. Implement shed, tool house, shop. 
2. Silos. 
3. Miscellaneous. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 475, Ice Houses; 589, Home- 
made Silos. 
Lesson 10. — Farm Fences. 
1. Types of fences. 
2. Fence building. 
3. Gates. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 239, Corrosion of Fence 
Wire; 403, The Construction of Concrete Fence Posts. 
Exercise 6. — Building a Wire Fence. 
See Farmers' Bulletin 638, Exercise 31, Building a Wire Fence. 
FARM SANITATION. 
(3 lessons. ) 
Reference. — Water Supply, Plumbing, and Sewage Disposal for Rural Homes, De- 
partment Bulletin No. 57. 
Lesson 1. — Sanitation and Farm Plans. 
1. Importance of sanitation. 
2. Relation of sanitation to drainage. 
3. Relation of farmhouses to buildings where animals are kept. 
4. Relation of mosquitoes and other insects to health. 
Illustrative material. — Illustrated lecture on Flies in Relation to Rural Sanitation: 
States Relations Service. Charts showing relation of flies and mosquitoes to health 
and other phases of sanitation. 
Lesson 2. — The Water Supply of the Farm. 
1. Importance of pure water. 
2. Securing pure water. 
3. Water under pressure in buildings. 
Illustrative material. — Illustrated lecture on Farm Water Supplies: States Rela- 
tions Service. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 73, Pure Water on the 
Farm; 262, Water for Table Use; 296, Wells and a Pure Water Supply; 309, Ice for 
Household Use. Clean Water and How to Get It on the Farm, Yearbook 1915. 
Lesson 3. — Sewage Disposal. 
1. Importance of proper disposal. 
2. Sewage systems and house equipment. 
3. Outhouses. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 463, The Sanitary Privy; 
527 , Sewage Disposal for Rural Homes. Sewage Disposal on the Farm, Yearbook 191 G. 
