UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
m BULLETIN No. 763 
Contribution from the States Relations Service 
A. C. TRUE, Director. 
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Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
June 6, 1919 
LESSONS ON DAIRYING FOR RURAL SCHOOLS. 1 
By Alvin Dille, Assistant in Agricultural Education. 2 
CONTENTS. 
Introduction 1 
Sources of information 1 
The survey 2 
Illustrative material 3 
The home project 3 
Lesson 1 5 
II 7 
III 9 
IV 11 
Page. 
Lesson V 12 
VI 13 
VII 14 
VIII 17 
IX 19 
X 21 
XI 22 
XII 23 
Supplement 25 
INTRODUCTION. 
There are few branches of agriculture that take as little fertility from 
the soil and at the same time returns a profit to the farmer as dairy 
farming. While teaching dairy farming is not the purpose of this 
bulletin, yet it is the basis of the lessons presented. These lessons 
present the subject from the standpoint of clean milk production, 
milk products, milk as a food in the home and as a supplement to 
other food materials, and have been prepared to give to the organized 
school work in elementary agriculture additional impetus in dairying, 
to provide material for instruction that is within the range of elemen- 
tary pupils, and to furnish a topic for home projects that may be 
worked out with profit to every community and with real educational 
value to the pupils concerned. 
SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
Practically all the subject matter for class use and instructions for 
home projects will be found in bulletins available, either free or at a 
small cost. Almost every State agricultural college has published 
1 Prepared under the direction of F. E. Heald, Specialist in Agricultural Education, States Relations 
Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
2 The writer is indebted to the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry and to the Office of Home 
Economics for valuable assistance in preparing this bulletin. 
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