loss and gain accounts; (c) merchandise accounts; (d) the proprietor's account.

3. What is the difference, if any, between (a) an invoice and a bill? (b) an invoice and a statement?

4. What is (a) an accommodation note? (b) a joint note? (c) a collateral note? (d) a negotiable note?

5. (a) What is a letter of credit? (b) Why are foreign bills of exchange usually drawn in sets of three?

6. What is meant (a) by bill of lading with draft attached? (b) by protesting a note or a draft?

7. (a) What is the purpose of closing an account in the ledger? (b) Give rules for closing all accounts and finding the gain or loss in business.

8. William Worth and Edward Strong are partners. Worth invests cash, $1500; and real estate, $5200. Strong invests merchandise, $4150; and cash, $1800. The firm assumes to pay for Worth his note due H. F. Lock, $700; and for Strong his account due N. C. Gates, $250. Journalize.

9. Post: (a) Accepted J. C. Gray's draft on us at 30 days' sight for $1000 in favor of H. H. Haggard. (b) We exchange notes with J. N. Wright for $400.

10. Make a trial balance: Invest cash, $9000; bought merchandise for cash, $7500; sold merchandise to B. F. Baker on account, $3000; sold merchandise for cash, $1500; bought merchandise of James Bates, $2500; sold merchandise for cash, $2000.

AGRICULTURE.

(a) What Oriental country made agriculture a part of the course of study for schools? (b) What were some of the first farming implements used?

2. What part of the plant food is derived from (a) the air? (b) the soil? (c) What percent of the plant is composed of

water?

3. (a) Name the two classes of elements that enter into the soil; (b) the ways in which soil moisture may be depleted. (c) What is meant by soil ventilation?

4. Name (a) the cereals, (b) the forage crops, (c) the root crops, (d) the tuber crops, (e) the fiber crops, (f) the animal fiber crops.

5. (a) What is meant by soiling crops? (b) What are the evils of the one-crop system? (c) How can you show the need of soil improvement?

6. (a) Name the various ways in which the propagation of plants may be effected. (b) What effect has age on the germination of seeds?

7. (a) Into what two great classes are the enemies of cultivated plants divided? (b) What are the subdivisions of each? What sprays are recommended for biting insects?

8. Tell (a) how apple trees are propagated, (b) cultivated. (c) How many trees to the acre? (d) What are some of the best varieties?

9. Discuss (a) objects of feeding; (b) classes of foods; (c) balanced rations; (d) How many hogs should be kept to each steer in feeding cattle?

10. (a) What breeds of cattle would you select for beef? for the dairy? (d) Describe the cream separator, buttermaking.

BIOLOGY.

1. (a) What are the two general divisions of biology? (b) Define cell, organ, tissue, protoplasm.

2. With reference to plants, what are the functions of (a) the roots, (b) the stem, (c) the leaves, (d) the flowers, (e) the fruit?

3. (a) Into what classes has the entire plant kingdom been grouped? (b) Give an example of each. (c) What is the general character of fernlike plants?

4. Bacteria-(a) Where found, (b) size and form, (c) relation to fermentation, (d) What methods are used in fighting germ diseases?

5. What is the lowest form of animal life? Name the principal organs, and their functions, of a complex organism.

6. Give the life history of (a) the locust, (b) the house fly (c) the mosquito, (d) the cicada.

7. What are (a) amphibians? (b) reptiles? (c) Give the life history of one of each.

8. Birds are classed as (a) perching, (b) gallinaceous, (c) waders, (d) prey. Give an example of each.

What are mammals? Give the economic importance of the carnivorous mammals.

10. What is the geologic history of the horse? Where is man's place in nature?

CHEMISTRY.

1. Define and illustrate (a) physical change, (b) chemical change.

2. What is (a) an atom, (b) a molecule, (c) a chemical element, (d) a chemical compound?

3. Oxygen-(a) its occurrence in nature, (b) a simple method of preparing it, (c) its properties.

4. (a) Describe the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. (b) What do you understand by a chemical reaction?

5. Describe acid, base, salt, giving an illustration of each and chemical formula.

6. What is the difference between (a) a sulphide and a sulphate; (b) a ferrous and a ferric compound?

7. Explain the terms monobasic and diabasic. (a) What is meant by the valence of an element?

8. Of what two essential elements is illuminating gas composed? How can their presence be shown?

9.

Carbon dioxide-(a) give its relation to animal and vegetable life. (b) Describe briefly the process of manufacturing sulphuric acid.

10. Give an illustration of (a) spontaneous combustion; (b) combustion without oxygen.

TENNESSEE Geology.

1. Name, (a) the natural divisions of Tennessee, (b) the political divisions, (c) Give the number of counties in each political division.

2. (a) What minerals enter into the composition of Tennessee rocks? (d) What names are applied to the various crystals of allumina?

3. (a) Explain the process of rock formation. (b) Name and give an example of three classes of rocks according to the form in which they occur.

4. (a) What does the geologist observe as to sequences of strata in crossing a fault? (b) How have faults been formed?

5. (a) What is supposed to be the thickness of the earth crust? (b) At what rate does the temperature change as one descends in the earth?

6. (a) In what parts of Tennessee are Lower Silurian rocks greatly developed? (b) What are their economic products?

7. (a) What are the coal measures? (b) Name five counties in which coal mines are operated?

8. Name and locate (a) the iron belts of the State, (b) the different varieties of iron ore.

9. Where is (a) copper mined? (b) zinc? (c) lead? (d) Name some other valuable minerals found in the State and tell where found.

10. (a) Upon what does the productiveness of soil depend? How are the soils of this State classified?

PHYSICS.

1. (a) Distinguish between mass and weight. (b) Define velocity and acceleration.

2. Explain by a diagram what is meant by composition of simultaneous motions and their resultant. By the operation of what force is it, that bodies have weight?

3 (a) Upon what law does the action of the thermometer depend? (b) What force causes water to soak a piece of wood floating on its surface?

4. (a) Why is it that light can traverse a vacuum while sound cannot? (b) Why does the air in a room seem to become dryer as the temperature is raised?

5. What are the three kinds of levers? Illustrate each. State Newton's three laws of motion.

6. (a) Describe the barometer and its use. (b) Why will not a siphon work in a vacuum?

air has weight?

(c) How can it be proved that

7. A solid body weighs 10 pounds in air and 6 pounds in What is its specific gravity?

water.

8. Describe (a) the telephone; (b) the phonograph.

9. (a) Illustrate what is meant by refraction of light. (b) Where is the reflecting surface which produces the image in a looking-glass?

10. (a) Distinguish between electric conduction and induction. (b) Explain the incandescent light.

PHYSIOLOGY.

1. Give hygienic reasons for breathing through the nostrils rather than through the mouth.

2. Explain why the odor of onions one has eaten is afterwards perceptible in the breath.

3. Name two articles of food which serve mainly (a) to build up tissue; (b) to produce heat and fat.

4. Beginning with the left auricle, name the cavities of the heart in the order indicated by the flow of the blood.

5. Name (a) five subdivisions of the alimentary canal; (b) two offices of the blood.

6. (a) Mention two substances that are removed from the blood through the agency of the skin.

7. How may vertebrae has the spinal column above the sacrum? Name the three classes into which these vetrebrae are divided.

8. Spinal cord-Give (a) location, (b) form, (c) how protected, (d) distribution of white and gray matter.

9. Describe the cerebral hemispheres, mentioning (a) their location; (b) the kinds of nerve tissue composing them.

10. Into what classes are the bones of the skeleton divided? Give the purpose and an example of each class.