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ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
PRACTICAL WORK 
Exercise 1 
Object: To study the parts of a chicken. 
Material: A hen, and a cockbird, a small coop or box, note¬ 
book, tablet. 
Procedure: Place the hen upon a table or box before the 
class. Locate the comb, points wattles, hackle, shank, fluff, 
feathers, primary feathers, and beak. Describe the color of the 
eyes. Weigh the hen. Does the hen belong to an egg breed, 
a meat breed, or a general purpose breed? 
Note the same points regarding the male bird. 
Study various breeds of chickens, if time will permit. (The 
word “Poultry” in Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.) 
Exercise 2 
Object: To prepare poultry posters for school room. 
Material: Large pieces of cardboard, old farm journals and 
poultry magazines. 
Procedure: Cut out pictures of poultry, poultry houses, poul¬ 
try feeds, and poultry club work. Paste these neatly upon the 
cardboard and hang them in the school room. 
WORDS TO BE LEARNED 
Artificial. Produced by human skill in contrast to natural. 
Broilers. A small chicken weighing from three-quarters to one 
and one-half pounds. 
Chocked. To make fast. 
Clabber. The solid part of soured milk. 
Cockerel. A young male chicken less than one year of age. 
Cock Bird. A male chicken over one year of age. 
Commission house. The place where the products are sent to 
be sold by an agent. 
Disinfectant. A substance adapted for destroying bacteria and 
disease germs. 
Frier. A chicken used for frying. 
Grit. Crushed rock or stone used in feeding poultry. 
Home Project. Work done at home by the student as a part 
of his school work. 
Infertile. Not fertile, withput proper germ for hatching. 
