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ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
PRACTICAL WORK 
Prepare a school exhibit, representing the best that your school 
and community can produce. 
WORDS TO BE LEARNED 
Blotches. Large irregular spots. 
By-product. Additional material aside from the principal 
product. 
Carton. A pasteboard box. 
Checks. Small cracks in the eggs. 
Competition. An attempt to gain something for which another 
is striving. 
Conform. To shape in accordance; to make like. 
Cylindrical. Having the form of a cylinder. 
Exhibit. A collection of articles for making a display or show. 
Fiber. A tough substance composed of thread-like tissue. 
Forage. For example, as the grasses and hay. 
Indentation. The grooves or notches in grains of corn. 
Kernels. A whole grain or seed of a cereal. 
Linters. The cotton removed from cotton seed after ginning. 
Observation. The act of seeing or making conclusions. 
Shank. A portion of the corn stalk which holds the ear. 
Standard. That which is established by custom or general 
consent. 
Yolk. The yellow mass in the center of the egg. 
REFERENCES 
“Farm and Garden Rule Book,” L. H. Bailey, Macmillan, 1914. 
“Productive Farm Crops,” E. G. Montgomery, Lippincott, 1918. 
