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consideration. This problem would naturally involve such 

 questions as these : 



A. Would the student have the necessary time? 



B. Could the necessary materials be provided by the parent or student? 



C. How much personal supervision of the actual work of construction 



would be necessary or advisable on the part of the supervisor? 



D. Would profitable poultry keeping on a given home farm require 



the improved accommodations which the model poultry house, 

 built by the student, would furnish? 



E. How far would conformity to the standards set up by the school 



be necessary in determining what would be a model type of 

 poultry house for a given farm? 



F. In what year of the school course should the building of a poultry 



house be undertaken, in order that the training in poultry 

 keeping might be made most profitable? 



G. What time of the year could the student build a poultry house to 



best advantage? 



The problem of conducting the building of the poultry house 

 as a strictly business enterprise is a project which would 

 naturally involve these questions : 



A. To what extent, if at all, could the boy be required to meet, or be 



charged with, all cost save his own labor, and be credited with 

 a fair inventory valuation of the completed structure? 



B. If the parent must advance the money or materials, what rate of 



interest, if any, should be charged the boy? 



C. What method of accounting should be adopted? 



D. Should such records be kept as would enable the cost of this build- 



ing to be compared with other similar buildings in the neighbor- 

 hood, as a check upon the business-like character of the boy's 

 working out of this project? 



(2) In directing the work of the boy in the discharge of his 

 projects, the school must of necessity, it is believed, undertake 

 the supervision of a portion of his work at home. Supervision 

 of part-time work in agriculture would not be an attempt on 

 the part of the school to interfere with the private management 

 of the farms of the parents. Supervision would, nevertheless, 

 be a continuous effort by the school to assist, advise and en- 

 courage the students in applying under home conditions, farm 

 methods which had proved successful elsewhere, and thus to 

 cause the practical training of the students to result in voca- 

 tional efficiency. 



