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202 States to help them produce larger and better crops.

There is hardly any study in school that does not have an application to the business of the United States Government and which, carefully mastered, may not lead to Government work.

Manual training is very important, for Uncle Sam is building and rebuilding pretty nearly all the time. He owns a great many buildings scattered all over the country and keeps them in excellent repair, in addition to improving and enlarging them continually. These include post offices, light houses, Indian schools, quarantine stations, hospitals, and houses where government employees live.

Learning to cook well may take a girl into one of Uncle Sam’s food stations, for the United States is thinking very hard about its pantries. Uncle Sam, himself, is going to market to learn how much things ought to cost, which foods are better to buy because of the nourishment they contain, and how they should be cooked. The Government is making recipe books that are sent for the cost of the postage to those who want them. It is regulating the scales used by the grocer, the butcher, and the vegetable man, and is even doing a little canning and preserving on its own account to find out just the best way of keeping foods.

Your school drawing will help you to do Government draughting, perhaps, or help in the patent