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BULLETIN 1384, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
definite practices, such as orchard pruning, orchard spraying, poultry 
culling, grasshopper poisoning, treating seed wheat for smut, canning 
fruits and vegetables, use of dress form in sewing, and the like. 
(Figs. 2 and 3.) No attempt was made, however, to work out a 
Table 5. — Agricultural practices adopted by 5 per cent or more of the farms 
Iowa 
New York 
Colorado 
California ' 
Per- 
Per- 
Per- 
Per- 
centage 
centage 
centage 
centage 
Prai 
oi farms Practice 
of farms 
Practice 
of farms Practice 
of farms 
adopt- 
adopt- 
adopt- 
adopt- 
ing 
ing 
ing 
ing 
Livestock mar- 
46 Oat-smut treat- 
25 
Wheat varieties. 
24 Pruning trees 
32 
keting. 
incur. 
Poultry culling . 
27 
Orchard spray- 
ing. 
24- 
Grasshopper 
control. 
14 Pruning vines.. . 
13 
Orchard spray- 
17 
Mai keting milk- 
14 
Poultry culling.. 
14 Poultry culling.. 
9 
ing. 
Tuberculin 
17 
Lime 
14 
Com.. 
13 
Irrigation 
8 
testing. 
Soybeans. 
Oats 
Wool marketing 
Lime 
10 Corn 
16 Orchard pi unhu 
7 i 'its (general). .. 
5 Potato-seed 
treatment . 
Poultry culling.. 
Tuberculin test- 
ing. 
Potato-seed 
sources. 
Alfalfa 
Wheat 
Fertilizers 
Dairy feeding. .. 
Prairie-dog con- 
trol. 
Sw ine breeding.. 
W h e a t - s m u t 
treatment. 
» The wide range of agricultural production in the California areas accounts for the short list of out- 
standing practices adopted. 
Table 6. — Home-economics practices adopted by 5 per cent or more of the homes 
Iowa 
Ne v York 
Colorado 
California 
Pi act ice 
Per- 
centage 
of 
homes 
adopt- 
ing 
ctice 
Canning 
Per- 
of 
homes 
adopt- 
ing 
Practice 
Per- 
centage 
of 
homes 
adopt- 
ing 
Per- 
centage 
Pr ^ tice homes 
adopt- 
ing 
Canning 
33 
13 
12 
10 
24 
9 
7 
5 
Canning. 
Millinery 
Dress forms 
17 
8 
6 
6 
Dress forms 14 
Millinery. .. ... 12 
Sewing 
Dress forms 
Nutrition 
Clothing (gen- 9 
eral). 
Canning 6 
classification of practices in advance of field work and to fit all 
changed practices reported into such a classification. 
Practices as reported by farmers and farm women were recorded 
in as definite a way as possible and these classified later. A list of 
the more outstanding practices reported in each of the four States 
is given in Tables 5 and 6. This list represents only a small part of 
the entire list of practices reported in any of the areas. It will be 
noted that, although agricultural practices varied with the different 
types of agriculture in the different States, the home practices 
reported remained fairly constant in all of the areas involved. 
