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president of the Club. The next day they 

 came and loaded up the farm products that 

 were displayed and gave them to the 

 preacher. Now, they are so interested that 

 they are planning to have an expert come 

 from the State College of Agriculture and 

 hold another exhibit later on. 



The boys have built a work-bench in the 

 basement and brought some tools from home, 

 and we are having some manual training. 

 We are working out a few useful farm de- 

 vices, such as gates, milking stools, racks, in- 

 dividual hog houses and so forth. We have 

 found work in rope-splicing and making 

 halters even more useful and interesting for 

 the children than basketry and mat-weav- 

 ing, and it has the same value in training 

 their hands. I will send you some pictures 

 of our rope work. The boys and girls have 

 also learned how to make rope halters for 

 calves and colts. 



It has been very cold and snowy, so we 

 have used some of our noon hour for hand 

 work. The girls have finished the sash cur- 

 tains for the windows. They hem-stitched 

 them and each girl pinned her name on her 

 own curtains. We have our new wall paper 

 and some new books for our library. We 



