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 Materials chiefly used in farm shop work in the schools 



Experience in Teaching Farm Shop Work. In Pennsylvania, 

 the supervisors of agriculture, without exception, teach the farm 

 shop work. Table 28 shows the kinds of materials used and the 

 number of years that each supervisor has taught this work. Fig- 

 ure 11 shows graphically what materials were used. That the farm 

 shop work is still influenced by manual training ideals is brought 

 out in Table 31. This shows that of 33 schools, 10 were in 1919 de- 

 voting their efforts to repair and construction work, such as is fol- 

 lowed by farmers in the pursuit of their vocation, and that the char- 

 acter of the work was good as measured by standards obtaining in 

 d farm practice. Three more schools were doing the same kind 

 of work with a fair degree of skill. Fourteen combined good farm 

 shop work with cabinet work. Four schools gave cabinet work 

 almost exclusively. One restricted its efforts almost entirely to 



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