(Fifteen weeks: Instruction, 13 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

1. Names, uses, care, and cost of tools necessary to ordinary carpenter work on the farm.

II. Exercises in the use of the saw, plane, chisel, brace and bit, hatchet, hammer, screw driver, hand vise, level, straightedge, steel square, miter box.

III. Material: (a) Lumber; different kinds, grades, sizes; methods of measuring; cost. (b) Building hardware and cost; nails, door locks, latches, hinges, butts, cupboard catches, drawer pulls, wardrobe hooks, screws, hinges, staples, hooks, hasps.

IV. Making repairs; fences, gates, floors, steps, doors, windows, screens, tables, chairs.

V. Practice in making useful articles for farm and home, such as sawbuck, wagon jack, hammer handle, plank drag for roads, stepladder, window and door screens, farm gate, stanchion, hayrack, wagon box, hog and chicken troughs, clothes rack, kitchen table, ironing board, rustic chair, singletree, evener.

VI. Farm buildings: (a) Making plans for house, barn, hogpen, chicken coop, root house, privy, and estimating quantity and cost of material. (b) Framing simple buildings, making door and window frames, hanging doors, simple interior finishing.

FARM BLACKSMITHING.

(Ten weeks: Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

It is intended that all boys in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, or prevocational period, shall receive sufficient instruction in blacksmithing to enable them to do simple repair work on farm tools and implements.

Those who demonstrate capacity for this line of work and select blacksmithing as a vocation will be given an opportunity to continue the course during the vocational period.

(b) Drawing out and bending as in staple making.

(c) Shoulder forming and twisting as in gate hooks.

(d) Upsetting, heading, squaring, and chamfering as in the bolt. IV. Welding:

(a) Lap.

(b) Split.

(c) Cleft.

V. Soldering.

VI. Hardening and tempering.

VII. Sharpening plowshares, cultivator shovels, etc.

VIII. Repairing farm tools and implements:

Fork handles.

Hoe handles.

Shovel handles.

IX. Nailing on horseshoes.

Singletrees.

Doubletrees.

FARM ENGINEERING.

(Ten weeks Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

This course provides for valuable training of an elementary character along varied lines for one who has the care of the property about the modern homestead.

VII. Operation and care of engines.

VIII. Pipe repairing and fitting:

(a) Tools; pipe tongs, vises, wrenches, dies.

(b) Cutting pipe.

(c) Cutting threads. IX. Pump repairing: (a) Packing cylinder. (b) Draining.

X. Soldering.

XI. Laying sewer pipe:

(a) Cementing connections.

(b) Pitch or fall.

(c) Size.

(d) Calking soil pipe.

XII. Repair work:

(a) Tanks.

(b) Faucets.

(c) Valves.

(d) Cocks.

(e) Sinks.

(f) Toilet plumbing.

XIII. Dry-cell batteries:

(a) Electric bells.

(6) Electric wiring. (c) Insulation.

XIV. Drill press, its use.

XV. Use of emery wheel.

FARM MASONRY.

(Five weeks: Instruction, 13 hours per week; application, 221 hours per week.)

I. Name, uses, care, and cost of mason's tools for brickwork, concrete work, plastering.

II. Materials: Quality and cost of stone, brick, sand, gravel, concrete, lime.

III. Staking off ground for building; excavation; proper width and depth of footings, considering climate and soil conditions.

IV. Mixing mortar and cement and spreading for brickwork; building brick walls and piers.

V. Placing, staking, and wiring forms for concrete.

VI. Proportioning, mixing, and reinforcing.

VII. Placing and tamping.

VIII. Removing forms.

IX. Curing: Protection from heat, cold, moisture.

X. Construction of walks, fence posts, watering troughs.

XI. Use of wet, medium, and dry mixtures.

XII. Mixing mortar for plaster.

XIII. Metal and wood lath.

XIV. Interior and exterior finish.

FARM PAINTING.

(Five weeks: Instruction, 1 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

I. Names, uses, care, and cost of tools.

II. Ladders, scaffolding, and staging for interior or exterior work. III. Preparing wood and other surfaces for painting; removing old paint; priming for first coat; filling knots; puttying; sandpapering.

IV. Selection and application of paints and stains.

V. Oiling and waxing floors.

VI. Glazing: Cutting glass, glazing sash, puttying.

VII. Kalsomining; preparation of surface, size, sizing; preparing and applying the kalsomine.

VIII. Paper hanging; grade and cost of wall paper; treatment of wall; making paste; cutting, trimming, pasting, and hanging.

SHOE AND HARNESS REPAIRING.

(Five weeks: Instruction, 1 hours per week; application, 221 hours per week.)

A knowledge of shoe and harness repairing may be easily and quickly acquired. A farmer will save much time and money by making his own repairs. The following brief outline furnishes a basis for the training necessary to accomplish this:

1. Tools; names, uses, cost, and care: Hammers, awls, pricking wheel, edging tool, knives, sewing horse, lasts, needles, pinchers, punch.

II. Materials; kinds, uses, and cost: Leather, thread, wax, rivets, nails, cement, oil, buckles, cockeyes, snaps, bits.

III. Names and parts of the harness and of the shoes.

IV. Cleaning, repairing, and caring for harness and shoes.