APPENDIX TEXTBOOKS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS The following books, arranged by subjects, are those which are considered most worthy of consideration for use as regular textbooks in the courses mentioned, when offered as vocational courses in high schools. As other books are published from time to time the recommended list may need to be varied. In some states uniform lists for all the schools are adopted and are to be followed. This list does not pretend to include all the reference books for these courses. FIELD CROPS OR PLANT LIFE, USUALLY FIRST YEAR.-Davis' Productive Plant Husbandry; Montgomery's Productive Farm Crops; Duggar's Southern Field Crops; Wilson and Warburton's Field Crops; Livingston's Field Crop Production. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY.-Harper's Animal Husbandry for Schools; Harper's Manual of Farm Animals; Plumb's Beginnings in Animal Husbandry; Tormey and Lowry's Animal Husbandry. Farming. DAIRYING.-Washburn's Productive Dairy Husbandry; Eckles and Warren's Dairy POULTRY HUSBANDRY.-Lewis' Productive Poultry Husbandry; Lewis' Poultry Keeping; Lippincott's Poultry Production. FEEDS AND FEEDING.-Woll's Productive Feeding of Farm Animals; Henry and Morrison's Feeds and Feeding (Abridged). HORTICULTURE.-Davis' Horticulture; Hood's Horticulture. SMALL FRUITS.-Sears' Productive Small Fruits. GARDENING.-Davis' School and Home Gardening; Lloyd Productive Vegetable Gardening; Watts' Vegetable Gardening (for trucking regions). SOILS.-Wier's Productive Soils; Whitson and Walster's Soils and Soil Fertility. ORCHARDING.-Sears' Productive Orcharding; Bailey's Principles of Fruit Growing. FARM MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING.-Davidson's Farm Engineering, Ramsower's Equipment for the Farm and the Farmstead. FARM MANAGEMENT.-Boss' Farm Management; Warren's Farm Management. LIST OF BOOKS AND BULLETINS The following State Departments of Vocational Education have issued classified lists of references and texts: CALIFORNIA.-Bibliography of Agricultural Reference Books (very full) (State UniIOWA.-List of Bulletins and Circulars, classified by subjects (Ames). versity, Berkeley). MICHIGAN.-Agricultural Reference Library; Textbooks (Bul. 205, List of High-school Equipment). (Lansing.) MINNESOTA.-Books for Farmers and Farmers' Club Libraries; Books for Judging; Agricultural Reference Library (University Farm, St. Paul). NEBRASKA.-Text and Reference Material in Vocational Agriculture (Dept. of Vocational Agriculture, Lincoln). NEW YORK.-Suggested Reference Books for Vocational Agriculture (State Education Department, Albany). TEXAS.-Required Reference Books for Vocational Agriculture (A. and M. College, Bryan). Write to the States Relations Service, Division of Agricultural Instruction, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for lists of Texts and References for Secondary Schools. Special lists are issued upon the following topics: Write also to the last above address for lists of bulletins and volumes of the U. S. Department of Agriculture classified for the use of teachers. The lists are issued on a number of topics: Agronomy. Animal Husbandry. Dairying. Birds and Other Animals. Horticulture. Gardening. Rural Engineering. LISTS OF AIDS IN TEACHING AGRICULTURE Send to the Division of Agricultural Instruction, States Relations Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for a list of each of the following: "Sources of Pictures Useful in Teaching Agriculture and Nature Study." "Sources of Maps, Charts, and Models.' "Lists of Exhibits." Dealers in "Laboratory Equipment and Supplies." Bulletins and circulars on 'Suggestions for Teachers in Secondary Schools." Sources of Projection Apparatus and Materials: Lantern slides available from private firms; moving picture films; projection apparatus. Lantern Slides with syllabi. List of Illustrated Lectures. Write to the teacher-training institutions of your state, particularly those officially designated, as the Agricultural College, for the following things. Some of these may best be obtained from your state supervisor, whose office is probably at the state capital. List of slides and charts and films and exchanges for these. Farm account blank books. Samples of illustrative material. List of firms that furnish samples and illustrative material. List of Livestock Breeders' Associations. Lists of Agricultural Journals recommended for the State. State course of study and list of book adoptions. State Library regulations and blanks. Detailed outlines of lessons and exercises in various subjects. Lists of apparatus for equipping schools. Project outlines. Pamphlets issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. AMERICAN LIVESTOCK RECORD ASSOCIATIONS Every school teaching agriculture should write to the secretary of the associations of those breeds of livestock of importance in the region. Ask for pamphlets and other literature regarding the particular breed, and also for blanks used in registering animals. Some of the associations can furnish fine pictures of noted animals of their breeds. These may be mounted on wall cards, as framed, or used in making charts. Some of them can supply charts. A few of the associations have sets of lantern slides or films to loan to schools. Get a revised list of these associations and also a list of state and county livestock associations by writing to the animal husbandry department of your State Agricultural College. Horses Arabian Horse Club of Am., 1729 "G" Am. Assn. of Importers and Breeders of Am. Clydesdale Assn., Union Stock Yards, French Coach Horse Society of Am., Oak National French Draft Horse Assn. of Am., German, Hanoverian and Oldenburg Coach Am. Morgan Register Assn., Middlebury, Vt. Am. Breeders' and Importers' Percheron Am. Saddle Horse Breeders' Assn., Law- Am. Shetland Pony Club, Lafayette, Ind. Jockey Club, 6-8 East 46th Street, New Welsh Pony and Cob Society of Am., La- Jennets Standard Jack and Jennet Registry of Am., Am. Jersey Cattle Club, 324 West 23d Street, Am. Kerry and Dexter Cattle Club, Colum- Polled Durham Breeders' Assn., Greenville, Am. Polled Hereford Breeders' Assn., Des Moines, Iowa. Red Polled Cattle Club of Am., Gotham, Am. Shorthorn Breeders' Assn., Union Stock Am. Dairy Shorthorn Cattle Club, Orange- Am. Polled Durham Breeders' Assn., Indianapolis, Ind. Sheep Am. Cheviot Sheep Society, Fayetteville, Am. Cotswold Registry Assn., Waukesha, Continental Dorset Club, Mechanicsburg, Am. Hampshire Sheep Assn., Coldwater, Am. Leicester Breeders' Assn., Cameron, Ill. Am. and Delaine Merino Record Assn., Del- Dickinson Merino Sheep Record Co., New National Delaine Merino Sheep Breeders' Standard Delaine Merino Sheep Breeders' Am. Rambouillet Sheep Breeders' Assn., International Von Homeyer Rambouillet Michigan Merino Sheep Breeders' Assn., Vermont, New York and Ohio Merino Sheep Am. Oxford Down Record Assn., Hamilton, Am. Romney Breeders' Assn., Mechanics- Am. Shropshire Registry Assn., Lafayette, Am. Southdown Breeders' Assn., Spring- Am. Tunis Sheep Breeders' Assn., Crawfordsville, Ind. It is often advisable to make lantern slides by hand in order to quickly present tables, diagrams, cartoons, announcements, songs, etc. The following are some methods which have been used by the writer and have been useful. Ink on Glass.-1. Clean a glass slide and with a crow quill pen write, print, or draw on the glass with India ink. The ink will take more readily if the dry finger is first rubbed over the spot on which the lettering is to be done. 2. Special inks in a variety of colors known as lantern slide inks may be purchased. These may be used with clean pen on the slide. 3. One may write directly on ground glass or mica with either pen or pencil. Mica slides withstand the heat. it Ink or Pencil on Prepared Glass.-1. An ordinary unexposed lantern slide plate may be fixed in the usual way, washed, and allowed to dry, after which may be written on with either pencil or pen. This, of course, is rather costly. 2. A 10 per cent solution of gelatin in hot water may be made and flowed over the glass side, allowed to dry, and be written on as above. 3. A solution of Canada balsam in either turpentine or xylol (xylol dries quicker) flowed over a glass slide is more satisfactory than the gelatin solution. 4. A ground glass substitute is made as follows: Sandarac, 90 gr.; mastic, 20 gr.; ether, 2 oz.; benzole, to 1 oz. The proportion of the benzole added determines the grain of the matt obtained; this may be flowed over the glass slide. This dries in a few minutes (2 or 3), leaves a matt surface which softens the projected light, and takes ink and pencil well. On Gelatin Sheets.-1. Sheet gelatin may be purchased in a variety of colors, also clear and matt. This will take ink, pencil (on matt), and typewriter. For best results on a typewriter place two pieces of new carbon paper so that their faces touch the gelatin sheet. Type in the usual way and place between cover glasses with vignette matt and bind. 2. In order to make the above idea more easily carried out several companies now make a combination gelatin sheet, carbon paper, and matt ready to go into the typewriter. The gelatin sheet is mounted in the usual way. Miscellaneous. The simplest slide to make is that made by smoking a glass slide over a candle or kerosene lamp and scratching the letters or drawing with a pin or other sharp instrument. A glass pencil or china marker's pencil may be procured from any laboratory supply house or from most stationers. This may be used for writing on glass direct. The value of the above suggestions will depend upon the ingenuity of the user and the care exercised in executing them. HOW TO MAKE A HECTOGRAPH Clay Hectograph.-1. Get a shallow pan (about 1 inch deep) of a size slightly larger than the sheet of paper which you wish to use. 2. Fill this carefully with modeling clay or plastacine, pounding and working into place with a straight-edge. When the surface is perfectly smooth add glycerine slowly until it will absorb no more. Allow to stand until all glycerine is absorbed. 3. To use, write with aniline ink or duplicator typewriter ribbon on a good grade of bond paper. Lay a plain sheet of paper on the pad and rub it smooth with a round stick or squeegee roller. This is to level the surface and make it smooth. Now place the prepared copy face down on the hectograph and rub into perfect contact. Remove in from 3 to 5 minutes. Then proceed by placing clean sheets one at a time on the pad and rubbing into contact. The length of time necessary to secure a perfect copy may be found by experiments. 4. Keep a cloth moistened with glycerine over the pad when not in use. 5. A piece of glass or a metal lid may serve as a cover to the box. 6. To use again, wash off the surface with a moist sponge until clean. Dry with a rag and proceed as above. Gelatin Hectograph.-1. Secure a pan a little larger than the sheet you wish to use. This may be a cake or bread pan or may be made of wood. 2. Soak 2 oz. of gelatin in water over night. The surplus water should be poured off. Twelve or thirteen ounces of glycerine should be heated to about the boiling point of water, add the gelatin. Pour into the pan and prick all air bubbles. Let stand in a cool place until perfectly firm. Be sure pan is level and kept covered. 3. Make the copy as suggested above. Moisten surface slightly and proceed as above. When through using the hectograph, wash the surface with a moist sponge. A few drops of oil of cloves added to gelatin acts as a preservative during hot weather. NOTE.-Hectograph ink may be purchased from stationers and schoolsupply houses. |