QUESTIONS AND TOPICS
1. How do the population and settled area of the United States in 1790 compare with those of the State in which you live now?
2. Has any country ever enjoyed such growth as that of the United States in the nineteenth century? What country or countries come near us in rapidity of progress?
3. Prepare a chart, in the way previously suggested, and preserve it for comparison with the exports in later periods.
4. What is the proportion of persons now occupied in agriculture in your State? in the State where the proportion is highest? [Abstract of Census.]
5. What are the comparative advantages and disadvantages of corn and wheat as commercial crops? Which crop occupies the greater acreage in your vicinity, and why?
6. Write a report on one of the following crops, its preparation, uses, and history in the United States:
(a) Flax. [Encyclopedias; E. A. Whitman, Flax culture, Boston, 1888, Barker in Quarterly Jour. Econ., 1917, 31: 500-529.]
(b) Hemp. [Encyclopedias; C. R. Dodge, Report no. 8, U. S. office of fiber investigations.]
7. Profits and losses in the colonial tobacco culture. [Bruce.]