268 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



He is a gentlemen who has never thought very much along voca- 

 tional lines. It was such a surprise to him; I guess he thought 

 the whole school was going to turn into the agricultural depart- 

 ment, so he eliminated a number of those boys who stood up, who, 

 he thought, were too young to take up tlie Avork. 



I just want to mention in passing, this, that we had a track 

 at Mansfield last Saturday at which Tioga and several other coun- 

 ties were represented, and the Mansfield High School won the events, 

 took 42 points; their nearest competitors about 25. Of those 42 

 points, about one-half of them were taken by the boys who came 

 in from the farms. This gentleman right here, won the silver medal 

 for getting the most i)oiuts of anyone in the five schools. He also 

 won a gold medal for scoring the largest number of points of any- 

 one in the high school. This gentleman right here, won the shot, 

 putting it 38 feet and 10 inches. This gentleman here functioned 

 in the broad jump. Another boy got second in the broad jump. 

 Of the basket-ball team, six fellows of the seven belong to the agri- 

 cultural department; of the baseball team, six of the nine. So it 

 brings to the front, the country boys who are the strongest of all, 

 and are developed along other lines as well as agriculture. 



This is a picture of the shops. These boys here are making step- 

 ladders. These hammers w^ere donated by Maydo. He gave them 

 two dozen. We received a dozen saws, some squares, bevel squares 

 and a number of things like that were donations. Here are some 

 of the things that were made in the shop. This was taken early in 

 the year before we had very many made. We have step-ladders, 

 saw-horses, nail boxes, crates, etc. These are taken around town 

 and many are sold. In that way our shop is a sort of self-sustaining 

 institution and we sell these things for just what they cost. This 

 is what I call my over-flow work. There's always boys who get 

 through in the shops before the others do so I bought some lumber 

 myself and had the boys make a little colony house and we made 

 it according to scientific principles and when they M^ould get through 

 their work, I'd let them work on this colony house. This is to take 

 right down and take out-doors. Here is the forge-room. I have in 

 this forge-room, about |125 worth of equipment. It cost the school 

 board about $18 or |20. The Bell people donated one of these 

 forges and the Lancaster Forge Company, the other. The other 

 equipment, anvils, drill press, taps and dies, and many other things — 

 I bid those in from a sale in which the fellow had deserted his 

 family and owed a rent bill and I got about |80 worth of stuff for 

 $15, so you see we got the things for our forge-room at a very rea- 

 sonable price. The things we make in here are rings, braces, chisels, 

 hammers, horse-shoes, chains, etc., and in that way they get the 

 welding and tempering and when they want something on the farm, 

 they won't have to go to town and spend half a day to get it fixed. 



In this project, they are preparing poultry for show, these are 

 the different wash waters and here they are dry-picking a bird. 

 This gentleman here lives at Hornell. He cannot be at Mansfield 

 during the summer to carry on this project, but he is going to go 

 on a big poultry farm there this summer with his uncle, so in 

 order to say he had done some sort of project, I had let him hatch 

 about 500 eggs and he has four machines to attend and he had 

 good success with all but one machine which was a very old one 

 and he is now running another machine in place of that. This is 



