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BULLETIX 281, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the Monthly List of Publications if requested. This gives information as to new pub- 
lications. 
2. So lon^ as the supply lasts. Farmers' Bulletins may be had free from any Con- 
gressman or from the United States Department of Agriculture direct. 
3. The Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, "Washington, 
D . C . . "will furnish free the price lists for Government publications on various topics, 
including agriculture. Many of these are sold at a purely nominal price, but it rarely 
ever pays to purchase those of a technical nature. 
The State agricultural college and experiment station should furnish you free — 
4. A list of available publications. 
5. Copies of popular and extension bulletins dealing with subjects of local and State 
interest. 
6. The State club leader or county superintendent should furnish copies of printed 
and multigraphed information sent out through the extension service of the college of 
agriculture. 
7. Cattle registry associations publish bulletins or booklets on particular breeds. 
Manufacturers of farm machinery and fertilizer companies often issue valuable booklets, 
and these are usually free on request. 
8. Farm papers and magazines often give special inducements to schools. In 
other cases these may be brought from homes after they have been read there. 
9. The teacher should seek competent advice before purchasing books, as the 
limited funds should be made to cover the most valuable books first. 
10. Filing boxes for bulletins may be made by remodeling pasteboard boxes and 
reinforcing the corners and backs. Arrange either by subjects or numerically in sets, 
using an index. Arrange photographs or other illustrations in a similar way. 
Have the pupils individually write requests for such material as is needed in dupli- 
cate for class use. For library purposes use the name of the school or office rather 
than a person's name for the mailing list. 
X. AVERAGE FOOD COMPOSITION OF SOME CLUB PRODUCED 
Refuse. 
Total 
indi- 
gestible 
nu- 
trients. 
Digestible nutrienl 
Fuel 
value 
per 
pound. 
Nutri- 
tive 
ratio. 
Kind of food materials. 
Water. 
Pro- 
tein. 
Carbo- 
Fat. hy- 
drates. 
Ash. 
Perct. 
25.9 
11.2 
Perct. 
47.1 
65.5 
S7.0 
11.0 
12.5 
35.3 
12.6 
62.6 
94.3 
Perct. 
1.2 
1.1 
.5 
4.9 
3.3 
2.9 
7.9 
1.2 
Perct. 
13.3 
12.7 
3.2 
1.0 
7.8 
7.8 
17.5 
1.5 
'.3 
Per ct. Per ct. 
11.7 
s.s 
3. 8 I 5. 
80.8 
1. 7 ra o 
Per ct. 
0.5 
. 7 
.5 
2.3 
.8 
.8 
2.6 
.6 
.4 
•■> 
Calories. 
765 
635 
310 
3.410 
1.640 
1.200 
1.520 
295 
95 
190 
'-•, 
Esss. uncooked 
1. 7 
4 3 
6 
Butter 
Corn meal 
10 
1 2 
52 
7 
Beans, white, dried 
Potatoes 
"*20.'6" 
1.6 
.1 
4 
57.8 
14.0 
3 7 
3.5 
9.5 
Apples 
25.0 
63.3 
1.2 
.3 
9.7 
34.7 
i Based upon Farmers' Bui. 142. Consult also Farmers' Buls. 22. 121. 1S2. 1S3, 249. 293. 295, 359, 363, 
413,535,565. ■,-,..,> 
XI. SPELLLNG SUPPLEMENT. 
A county superintendent found that none of the textbooks in spelling used in his 
county contained any of the following list of words used in the rural school agriculture. 
Each teacher should compile his own list. 
Elementary agriculture : Rootstock, fertilizer, nitrogen, tillage, fungous, fungicide, 
insect, ration, scion, osmosis, bacteria, silage, environment, grasshopper, onion, para- 
site, vegetable, tubercles, propagation, codling moth, weevil, alfalfa, legumes, bien- 
nials, pollination, hybrids, cankerworm, girdler, irrigation, horticulture, stigma, 
pigweed, perennials, Bordeaux, shredder, bulletin, Clydesdale, Guernsey, aphis. 
formalin, maize, nutritious, experiment. Aberdeen, bacillus, bindweed, dandelion. 
