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Lesson 9. — Milk for the Market. 
1. Developing a local trade. 
2. Milk shipments. 
3. Essentials toward success. 
Lesson 10. — The Farm Dairy House, 
1. Plans and construction. 
2. Equipment and arrangement. 
3. Water supply and methods of heating. 
4. Cooling facilities. 
5. Sanitation. 
Special reference : Farmers' Bulletin 689, Plan for a Small, Dairy House. 
Individual plans furnished by the Dairy Division, U. S._ Dept. Agr. 
POULTRY. 
(Fifteen lessons; six double periods for practical work.) 
References — 
Suggestions on Poultry Raising for the Southern Farmer, Special Bulle- 
tin, Office of Secretary of Agriculture. Also the following Farmers' 
Bulletins: 51, Standard Varieties of Chickens; 64, Ducks and Geese; 
200, Turkeys; 287, Poultry Management; 445, Marketing Eggs; 452, 
Capons; 530, Important Poultry Diseases; 528, Hints to Poultry 
Raisers; 562, Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs; 574, Poultry Houses; 
585, Natural and Artificial Incubation of Hens' Eggs; 594, Shipping 
Eggs by Parcel Post ; 624, Natural and Artificial Brooding of Chickens ; 
682, Simple Trap Nest for Poultry; 697, Duck Raising; 767, Goose 
Raising. 
Lesson 1. — Fowls: Origin and Place on the Farm, 
1. Origin of the domestic fowl. 
2. Status of the poultry industry. 
3. Possibilities in poultry. 
Lesson 2. — Classification of Fowls. 
1. Definition of terms: Class, breed, variety, strain. 
2. Classification based on country of origin. 
3. Classification based on utility. 
4. Classification of American standard of perfection. 
Illustrative material for lessons 2, 3, 4, and 5: Charts, pictures, and 
lantern slides showing types and breeds of fowls. 
Lesson 3. — Utility Types. 
' 1. Meat type. 
2. Egg type. 
3. General-purpose type. 
Lesson 4. — American and English Breeds. 
1. The Plymouth Rock. 
(a) Characteristics of breed. 
(&) Varieties. 
2. The Wyandotte. 
3. The Rhode Island Red. 
4. The Orpington. 
5. The Dorking. 
