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Agriculture for Secondary Schools


          18.  In the cattle pen, the facility given for parturition is called __________
              (a)  isolation box.
              (b)  calving box.
              (c)  nursing box.
              (d)  weaning box.
              (e)  calf pen.

          19.  An intensive system of chicken farming is practised for __________
              (a)  all types of chicken.
              (b)  local breeds of chicken.
              (c)  dual purpose poultry.
              (d)  all types of chicken except local and dual-purpose poultry.
              (e)  broilers and ducks.

          20.  A slatted floor house is the type of house in which sheep and goat are __________
              (a)  raised in concrete ground floor.
              (b)  raised in an earthen ground floor.
              (c)  raised in a platform.
              (d)  raised in kraal.
              (e)  raised in a house provided with a run.

          Section B

          Write the word TRUE for the true statement and the word FALSE for the false
          statement.
          1.  Liver flukes in farm animals cause a disease called liver cirrhosis. _____
          2.  The meat obtained from goats is called mutton. _____

          3.  The incubation period of ostrich is 32 days. _____
          4.  Digestion is the process of breaking down feedstuffs to release nutrients in the
              body. _____

          5.  Proteins are compounds which are formed by joining several molecules  of
              amino acids by hydrogen bonds. _____

          6.  Chalaza in chicken is an organ that engulfs the ovulated yolk. _____
          7.  In fish pond construction, the preferred soils are clay, silt clay and clay loam.
              _____

          8.  Beef  cattle  can  be stunned  by the  use of electrical  stunning  or mechanical
              stunning. _____




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