UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 527 
, Contribution from the States Relations Service 
A. C. TRUE, Director J&? m *$&i> 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
July 26, 1917 
SOME EXERCISES IN FARM HANDICRAFT FOR 
RURAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 1 
By H. 0. Sampson, Assistant in Agricultural Education. 
Introduction 
Tools and their uses 
Terms used in woodworking 
Use of drawings . 
Exercise I. Nail box 
II. Sawhorse 
III. Bird house 
IV. Seed germinator 
V. Seed-corn drying rack. . 
VI. Seed sample case 
VII. Hotbed and cold frame. 
VIII. Flats 
IX. Forcing box 
X. Sorting table for vegetables and 
fruits 
XI. Planting board 
CONT 
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Stamper for crushing lumps of 
fertilizer 27 
Feed hopper for poultry 27 
Trap nest 29 
Brood coop 30 
Poultry house 32 
Wooden troughs for swine 32 
Hurdles for use in stock 
judging 33 
Hog houses 33 
Milking stool 3-1 
Calf stanchions 35 
Farm gate 36 
Rope work 37 
Concrete work 37 
The painting of woodwork. . . 38 
The purpose of this "bulletin is to give instruction in the making of 
useful articles for the school, farm ; and home. It is intended 
primarily for rural school teachers and for pupils of the seventh and 
eighth grades. The exercises have practical application to the agri- 
cultural work of the school and also to the various club projects in 
agriculture. In some States farm mechanics, or as it is termed, 
handicraft work, is conducted as a regular club project and is proving 
to be desirable for this purpose. 
Many of the exercises and drawings are compiled from extension 
bulletins of the different States. Bulletins published by Kansas and 
Iowa agricultural colleges have been used very freely. In these 
1 Prepared under the direction of C H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, States Relations 
Service. 
Note. — This bulletin furnishes elementary lessons in farm mechanics and is of interest to teachers and 
pupils of rural schools in all parts of the United States. 
80746°— Bull. 527—17 1 
