Extent to which the people of your county study the reports of your county government (consult at home and with older friends).
What do you find of interest in your county reports?
Are reports of your county published in the newspapers? Do you understand them? Ask your father to explain them to you.
Extent to which your county board exercises control over other county officers.
Extent to which the farmers of your county interest themselves in politics.
Whether or not the experience of the officer quoted on page 410 could be duplicated in your state.
The fee system in your county.
How and why public officers "are just what the people make them."
The meaning of Jefferson's remark that "public education and the subdivision of counties into wards are the two hooks upon which republican government must hang".
The feasibility of a "county club" in your county similar to those in North Carolina.