i BULLETIN 385, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Driving a pair of work horses hitched to some iarm vehicle cr machine. 
Driving four horses. j 
Doing various farm chores. 
Feeding a dairy herd according to an established ration. 
Tying skillfully 19 farm knots. 
Stringing seed corn. 
Husking 50 ears of corn in a inelified 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 tying a well-filled bag of grain or potatoes. 
Properly sewing sacks of onions or other produce. 
Cleaning cows or grooming 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 ability to do the work 
and to make the proper interpretations of the result. 
Testing milk and computing butter fat. 
Testing seed corn. 
Scoring and grading 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. 
Making 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 discontimued at about 
the time that the pupil has gained enough skill to make the work 
profitable. 
Further practice will be vocationally desirable but from the school 
point of view credit should cease except as this practice figures in a 
project along the same lines, which will occur frequently. | 
