An introduction to agriculture . BOYS BUILDING A POVLTRY Yearbook, De- partment of Agriculture. along some line in which he is especially interested. Apupils first project should be a simple one, and not oftoo long duration. Examples of Simple or Short Projects 1. Managing a small part of the garden. 2. Feeding chickens and gathering the eggs. 3. Weekly testing of the milk of one or more cows. 4. Testing the seed corn to be used. 328 AN INTEODUCTIO^ TO AGKICULTURE 5. Monthly milk record of one or more cows. 6. Growing a few kinds of flowers. 7. Feeding a calf, colt, or
An introduction to agriculture . BOYS BUILDING A POVLTRY Yearbook, De- partment of Agriculture. along some line in which he is especially interested. Apupils first project should be a simple one, and not oftoo long duration. Examples of Simple or Short Projects 1. Managing a small part of the garden. 2. Feeding chickens and gathering the eggs. 3. Weekly testing of the milk of one or more cows. 4. Testing the seed corn to be used. 328 AN INTEODUCTIO^ TO AGKICULTURE 5. Monthly milk record of one or more cows. 6. Growing a few kinds of flowers. 7. Feeding a calf, colt, or a litter of pigs. Examples of Longer Projects 1. Raising vegetables for the market. 2. Growing and canning tomatoes. 3. Managing the poultry flock. 4. Growing a crop of corn, potatoes, WIIiLAKD MARTIE, DISTRICT 138, DIVISION FOUR Started in the Poultry Project with a trio of eieese March 1, 1916. Hemade $ from his project.— Cnurtesy of Miss Catherine McClaU(/hry,School and Countrn Life Director, Cook Co., 111. 296. Planning a Project.— The pupil should dis-cuss with the teacher the general plan of the selectedproject and the method of conducting it. Often it ispossible to get the State Leader of Boys and Girls SCHOOL-HOME PKOJECTS 321> Club Work of the State College of Agriculture to talkto the pupils and to give them a general idea of whatshould be done and how to go about it. Often theCounty Agricultural agent or the County Superintend-ent of schools will explain the work. First, an outline of the project should be made, in-dicating: 1. The reading which should be done to gain informationnecessary for the successful conduction of the project, if itsnature requires this. 2. The work which must be done. 3. The things that should be observed as the projec
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