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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. — Improvement 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 V Future possibilities. 
3. Work of farmer v. work of specialist. 
Suggested Home Projects — 
1. Care and management of bearing orchard. 
2. Establishing of home orchard. 
3. Renovation of old orchard. 1 
4. Ridding orchards of insect pests and diseases. 
5. Top-working trees to more desirable varieties. 
6. Harvesting and marketing fruit crops. 
7. 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 
i See Department Bulletin 346, Home Projects in Secondary Courses in Agriculture, for outline of this 
project. 
