the use of the steel square; making of plans, specifications, and estimates, including material and labor; strength of joints, holding power of nails, screws, bolts, glue; wind pressure, snow loads, floor loads; effect of heat and moisture on wood and cement; insulation; protective coatings.

Give special attention to the use of catalogues, tradesmen's handbooks, and trade journals.

Exercises: Continue practice in repairs and more difficult building construction and cabinet work. Require students to plan and execute work, acting as advanced foremen.

DRAFTING.

(Two hours per week.)

The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with working drawings; to enable him to read them, to work from them, and, when necessary, to make his own plans. It is not the intention to make finished draftsmen.

CARPENTRY AND BUILDING.

First year.-Use and care of instruments. Free-hand lettering and figuring. Practice in scaling drawings. Drawing of simple lines and figures. Drawing from simple plates of structural elements to scale. Plan and elevation of structural elements to scale. Dimension lines. Placing dimensions and scale designations on drawings. Freehand sketches and study of proportion. Diagonal scale of equal parts. Sketch of trade problems for beginners; tool box, sawhorse, workbench, etc. Making simple working drawings of same. Inking, tracing, and blue printing. Mechanical lettering.

Second year.-Drawing plans and elevations of simple cottage, studying economy and convenience. Details of window frames and sash, doorframes, and doors. Interior trimming. Conventional methods of designating building materials. Make working drawings of furniture-dining table, chair, kitchen, dresser, etc. Draw plans of barn, chicken house, hog house. Plot tracts of land by subdivision, township, and range, showing streams, roads, bridges, and buildings. Third year.-Prepare complete plans, specifications, bills of materials, and estimate for a small cottage.

ENGINEERING.

First year.-Use and care of instruments. Free-hand lettering. Practice in scaling drawings. Drawing of simple lines and figures. Drawing from simple plates to scale. Plans and elevations of small objects to scale. Dimension lines. Place dimensions and scale designations on drawings. Free-hand sketches and study of proportion.

Sketches of valves, hangers, couplings, fly wheels, etc. Make simple working drawings of same. Inking, tracing, and blue printing. Mechanical lettering.

Second year-Make drawings of boilers; exteriors and sections. Boiler settings; plan, elevation, and section. Draw parts of steam and gas engines; cylinder, piston, connecting rod, etc. Interpret plans of bathrooms; details and sections of bathtubs, sinks, urinals, closets, lavatories. Interpret floor plans and cross sections of buildings, showing plumbing, heating and lighting installation, and prepare bills of materials therefrom.

MASONRY.

First year.-Use and care of instruments. Free-hand lettering. Practice in scaling drawings. Drawing of simple lines and figures. Drawing from simple plates to scale. Dimension lines. Placing dimensions and scale designations on drawings. Free-hand sketches of walls, piers, corners, copings. Develop working drawings from sketches. Inking, tracing, and blue printing. Draw simple forms for concrete steps, fence posts. Draw bonds, arches, chimney tops. Plans, elevations and section of fireplaces. Details of window and door frames for masonry walls. Conventional designations of different kinds of masonry and methods of indicating same.

Second year.-Study plans and details of boiler settings, foundations for machinery, and prepare estimates of materials. Interpret plans of a simple four-room cottage, including cellar, to be built of stone, brick, or concrete. Prepare bills of materials.

BLACKSMITHING.

First year.—Use and care of instruments. Free-hand lettering. Practice on scaling drawings. Drawing of simple lines and figures. Drawing from simple plates to scale. Plan and elevation of simple objects to scale. Dimension lines. Placing dimensions and scale designations on drawings. Free-hand sketches and study of proportion. Sketches of tools used in shop, such as anvil, hand hammers, sledges, tongs, swage block, tapered mandrels, cold chisel, forge. Make working drawings of same, inking, tracing, and blue printing. Make plans showing location of equipment.

Second year.-The same as second year of engineer's course, optional.

PAINTING.

First year.-Use and care of instruments. Free-hand lettering. Practice in scaling drawings. Drawing of simple lines and figures. Drawing from simple plates to scale. Plan and elevation of

small objects to scale. Dimension lines. Placing dimensions and scale designations on drawings. Free-hand sketches and study of proportion. Drawing of appliances used in trade on exterior work; ladders, swing, scaffolds. Inking, tracing, and blue printing. Elementary perspective, free-hand. Sketches of objects. Primary work in stencil design. Develop stencil from sketch. Mechanical lettering. Elevation of interior of rooms as practice for work in stencil design. Drawings to illustrate different kinds of signs.

Second year.-Progressive work in free-hand; perspective in sketches of various objects. Enlarging and reducing studies for use as a basis for stencils. Sketching interior trimming and furniture. Plat tracts of land, by subdivision, township, and range, showing streams, roads, bridges, buildings, and topography.

BLACKSMITHING.

FIRST YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 20 hours per week.)

Talks to students on the different features of the trade which they must master to become proficient mechanics.

Cost at current prices of tools, materials, and other equipment, with instructions as to their use.

The forge, fire tools, anvil, hammers, sledges, tongs, hardy, cold and hot cutters, flatter, punches, swages, swage blocks, fullers, heading tools, mandrels, bench and measuring tools, vise, chisels, rules, square, dividers, calipers, scratch awl, tire setters, bolt cutters, wrenches, bevel, hack saw, files, rasps, stocks and dies, drills, pincers, emery wheel, horseshoeing tools, shoes, nails, fuel, fluxes (borax, salammoniac, sand), iron, steel.

In these talks the teacher should always give thorough instruction not only on the points mentioned but on such additional points as may be essential to an intelligent and comprehensive understanding of the subject.

Talks and exercises: Keeping shop in order; making and management of fires. Have the students acquire the correct manner of standing and working at the forge and anvil, using the tongs and hand hammer, in becoming skillful in drawing down, bending, shortening, welding, and splitting, and to learn the proper heats for working iron and steel.

Making staples, S hooks, gate hooks, door hasps, bolts, welding (fagot, round, flat, right angle, T weld, chain making).

Give special instruction in soldering.

Apply these principles to the simple repair work that is brought in the shop.

SECOND YEAR.

(Forty weeks.—Instruction, 11⁄2 hours per week; application, 20 hours per week.)

Treatment of tool steel: Selecting and working steel; uses of different grades of steel; annealing, hardening and tempering, casehardening.

Tool making (work from blue prints): Tongs, nippers, hammers, chisels, punches, drills, hardies, crowbars, etc.

Repairs to farm implements: Sharpening plowshares, cultivator shovels, harrow teeth, disks, mowers; wagons, buggies, etc., paying special attention to tire setting, replacing broken spokes, fellies, setting skeins, making and repairing wagon boxes, wagon tongues, buggy poles and shafts, neck yokes, eveners.

Ordering new parts for farm implements: Necessity of giving proper description.

Horseshoeing: Management of horses in the shop; removing old shoes, anatomy of the horse's foot, preparing the hoof for the shoe, fitting and nailing on old shoes.

Making horseshoes: To correct forging, knee knocking, interfering, overreaching, stifle trouble.

Diseases of the horse's foot.

THIRD YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 14 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

Review work of previous years.

Continue practice in doing repair work of all kinds; horseshoeing. Estimate cost of material and labor and proper charge for piecework.

Give special instructions relative to the necessary equipment, including tools and materials and cost thereof for a small shop, the proper arrangement of equipment of shop, storage of materials, care and use of old material; the use of catalogues, handbooks, and trade journals.

Require students to plan and execute work, acting as advanced foremen.

ENGINEERING, INCLUDING POWER PLANT, PLUMBING, HEATING, AND ELECTRIC WIRING.

FIRST YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 14 hours per week; application, 20 hours per week.)

Talks to students on the different features of the course which they must master to become efficient.

SECOND YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 20 hours per week.)

Talks on builder's hardware and other material with which the carpenter must become familiar; names and cost, with instructions

as to use.

Nails, bolts, screws, stirrups, escutcheons, rims and mortise locks, dead locks, knob locks, store door latches, thumb latches, padlocks, door pulls, push and pull plates, door springs and checks, fast and loose pin hinges and butts, shutter fasteners, sash lifts, sash fasteners, sash bolts, sash pull plates and hooks, transom lifts and chains, door buttons, cupboard catches and turns, transom latches, screen door catches, drawer pulls, coat and wardrobe hooks, gate and door hooks, hinges and hasps, barrel and square bolts, mortise bolts, flush and surface bolts, chain door fasteners, door holders, stops, shelf brackets and screws, gate latches and hinges, strap hinges, blind fasteners and hinges, sash weights, cord, pulley, and chain; sliding-door rails and sheaves, staples, hooks and hasps, awning hooks, glue, glass, putty, lime, plaster, cement, brick, stone, sand, metal lath, plaster board, roofing (metal, slate, asbestos, and other prepared roofing), building paper, beaver board, sandpaper, ripsaw, band saw, mortise machine, lathe, planer, grindstone, emery wheel. Give special attention to adjustments, speed at which machines should be operated, oiling, caring for shafting, hangers, boxing and loose pulleys, belt lacing, use of guards to prevent accidents.

Talks and exercises:

Making window and door frames, doors, and various kinds of moldings.

Paneling, millwork in general, cabinetwork, especially furniture for school use.

Setting stud walls and partitions, door and window frames.

Sheathing.

Hanging doors and transoms.

Fitting hardware.

Construction of shelving, drawer chests.

Placing stools, aprons, and casings.

Laying top floors.

Setting grounds, building in mopboards.

Fitting molding and quarter round.

Putting on building paper.

Putting siding, corner boards, water table.

Building of straight-run stairs; risers and treads, stringers, plat

forms, newel posts, balusters, handrails.

Continue application of principles taught in general upkeep of plant.