study, it means that school instruction must not be limited to the 

 kinds of work that can be given only in the school shop. In order 

 to make the work as practical and worth while as possible the fol- 

 lowing plan is suggested : 



The teacher visits every boy's home farm during the sum- 

 mer months when school is not in session, and when he needs 

 to supervise the home-project work the boy is doing. The pur- 

 pose of the visit is to go over the farm carefully with the boy 

 and with his father in order to determine jointly what repair or 

 construction work may be needed on the farm. From this the 

 boy can, under guidance, make his selections. 

 If the pupils have had little experience with tools commonly 

 used it will be desirable to have them select "jobs" that can be per- 

 formed at the school. Relatively small objects such as watering 

 troughs, farm gates or fruit ladders can easily be made by boys in- 

 dividually. Larger jobs such as hog or poultry houses may well be 

 treated as class projects. They can be planned and cut to size in 

 the school if that seems desirable so that little time is used in as- 

 sembling them on the farms. 



Some desirable kinds of work cannot well be done within the 

 school building or grounds. For such work the pupils should be 

 taken to particular farms where they can have the opportunity to 

 do the work according to detailed directions given by the instructor 

 or someone who understands the work. 



Boys Who Do Not Live On Farms. In some rural communi 

 ties, particularly where oil wells or coal mines are found, there are 

 boys taking agricultural work who do not live on farms. There 

 are therefore no jobs for them to do for the home farm. Such pupils 

 can be provided for satisfactorily in several ways. The farm shops 

 in the schools should have a good variety of full sized models of 

 objects such as farmers need to make. These objects serve a two- 

 fold purpose : they stimulate boys to similar efforts, and they serve 

 as illustrative educational material in both technical agriculture and 

 farm shop work. Boys from other than farm homes can work on 

 such objects to advantage. As an alternative they may do desirable 

 kinds of work for other members of the class or for other people. 



Mechanical Drawing as Related to Farm Shop Work 

 Aim or Purpose of Mechanical Drawing. The first, and un- 

 doubtedly a most fundamental question to be considered when dis- 



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