Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur William Dunn
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page 183 of 586 (31%)
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Transportation needs of your locality. Improvements in
transportation facilities in recent years. Consult your county agent, or write to the Office of Farm Management, for publications relating to farm management, farm accounting, etc. Discuss with farmers of your acquaintance the extent to which they find farm accounts and farm records useful. Diseases of livestock prevalent in your locality and state. Experiments in cooperation to eradicate these diseases. Assistance received from the Department of Agriculture. Crops of foreign origin raised in your locality. Countries from which introduced. Destructive plant diseases and plant pests of your locality. Efforts to combat them. Importance of bird migrations to the farmers of your locality. Extent of protection afforded birds. How you cooperate in this matter. Importance of these various farmers' problems to the people in town--the housekeeper, the merchant, the manufacturer, the railroad companies. Cases of animal quarantine occurring in your locality. |
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