organization of your state department of agriculture and its work.
Also ask for, if available, a list of publications issued by the
department, from which you may later select such as may seem to be
useful.

Write to your state agricultural college, or to the experiment
station, for its latest report showing the work that it has done,
and for a list of available publications.

In writing to public officials for materials for class use, it is
well to send but ONE letter for the class or school, and to
request THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF COPIES that will serve the purposes
of the class. Public officials are busy people, and the
publications for which you ask cost the people of the community
money.

The members of the class may compete, if desired, in formulating a
suitable letter, and a class committee may select the best, or
formulate one on the basis of suggestions from the class.

Materials collected in this way should become school property, and
the class should be conscious that it is accumulating a library
for later classes as well as for themselves. Study and report on
the following:

The organization of your state department of agriculture, its
officers and how chosen, its divisions and their work.

The work done at your state experiment station (individual reports
may be made on the several important lines of work, or on