CONTENTS 

 PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF THE SUBJECT 



Page 



1. Organization of vocational agricultural education in Pennsylvania 7 



2. Certain preliminary assumptions regarding needs for vocational 



education 8 



3. Reason for the study 9 



4. Definition of farm shop work 9 



3. Definition of the problem 9 



6. Scope of the problem 11 



7. Method of gathering data 11 



The farms studied a selected group 12 



9. Method of treatment 13 



10. Classification 13 



11. Size of farms 13 



12. Type of agriculture 15 



13. Farm enterprises are diversified 16 



14. Age of farmers 17 





CHAPTER II. 



FINDINGS ON THE BASIS OF ALL FARMS STUDIED AS 

 ONE GROUP. (Group I). 



1. Explanations 19 



2. Construction work in wood 19 



3. Repair work in wood 25 



4. Construction work done for farmers by expert mechanics 35 



Work in cement and concrete 



Construction work 27 



Repair work 29 



Work done by mechanics 29 



6. Work done in iron and steel 29 



7. Saw filing 34 



8. Taps and dies 34 



9. Shoeing horses 34 



CHAPTER III. 



FINDINGS WHEN INFORMATION SECURED WAS GROUPED 



ACCORDING TO THE AGE OF THE FARMERS. (Groupe II). 



1. Work in wood 



Construction work 35 



Repair work 40 



Interpretation of Group II 40 



CHAPTER IV. 



FINDINGS ON THE BASIS OF TYPE OF AGRICULTURE 

 PURSUED. (Group III). 



1. Presentation and interpretation of facts found in Group III 42 



