12 BULLETIN 385, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUKE. 



Driving a pair of work horses hitched to some farm Aehicle or machine. 



Driving four horses. 



Doing various farm chores. 



Feeding a dairy herd according to an established ration. 



Tying skillfully 10 farm knots. 



Stringing seed com. 



Husking 50 ears of corn in a specified time. 



Weeding out garden rows sown in drills without disturbing plants unnecessarily. 



Testing hens' eggs for market or during incubation. 



Preparing Bordeaux mixture or other spray material. 



Learning to sharpen a saw, an ax, shears, or mower knives. 



Shocking grain; stacking hay or bundles of grain. 



Properly tjdng a well-filled bag of grain or potatoes. 



Properly sewing sacks of onions or other produce. 



Cleaning cows or groomiiig horses. 



Cleaning stables. 



SAMPLES OF LONGER PRACTICUMS. 



This group requires more planning and calls for some conclusions 

 or computations, A reasonable time should be granted, after which 

 the pupil should be required to demonstrate his abihty to do the work 

 and to make the proper interpretations of the result. 



Testing milk and computing butter fat. 



Testing seed corn. 



Scoring and gi-ading seed corn and other grains. 



Running an incubator. 



Sorting, grading and packing fruit. 



Planting shade or fruit trees. 



Keeping farm accounts from home data. 



Running mower or other farm machine. 



Plowing and harrowing. 



Running the corn planter. 



Home mixing of fertilizer. 



Maldng a chicken house. 



Using tools to construct or repair pens, houses, etc. 



Repairing machines or harness. 



Setting a shoe on a horse. 



Removing a calf's horns. 



Shearing sheep . 



Pruning or spraying apple trees. 



Running a corn binder. 



Breaking a colt. 



In these practicums the practice may be discontinued at about 

 the time that the pupil has gained enough skill to make the work 

 profitable. 



Further practice will be vocationally desu'able but from the school 

 point of view credit should cease except as this practice figures in a 

 project along the same lines, which wdl occur frequently. 



