3. List the articles of food which appear on your dinner table and
attempt to discover the source of each.

4. To what extent does the exchange of products in your section take
place by means of canals, inland waterways, ocean-going vessels, motor
truck, horse teams, railroads?

5. To what extent are the telephone and telegraph used to facilitate
exchange in your section?

6. Visit a near-by market and study the operations there, with
reference to the facts discussed in this chapter.

7. List and classify the middlemen of your community.


II

8. Internal trade and transportation in the United States a century
ago. (Bogart and Thompson, _Readings in the Economic History of the
United States_, pages 240-251.)

9. Transportation and communication in the United States since 1860.
(Bogart, _Economic History of the United States_, chapters xxiv and
xxv.)

10. Early forms of money. (Bullock, _Selected Readings in Economics_,
pages 387-399.)