Show REPAIR WORK IN FARM SHOPS maintained BY UTAH HIGH SCHOOLS heber haber city high school shop looked like a harness repair store in full blast whon when teachers tea chera of utah county high schools school 8 gathered there for their annual farm shop toach teach crt conference Pre Bant also were representatives from the the state school office and wi W tt a vocational expert from washington D 0 tile tho walls were completely hidden by hanging hang ing 1 l from district farms avex ovex undred double har bar bosses wor won ed oiled and put in good rebah ie e students students annually in tile tho six weeks devoted to this part of shop work down the cc ter of tile tho room extended tamea tables and sheet iron fron troughs for washing oiling stitching and riveting A tool room presided avei over by a student checked td each student its ills tools and now leather twenty sides aides of leather are used up tip each wenter in tills this school charles dobraff tho the hobor heber teach or explained to tile the conference do trials of his hla shop program surveys Sur voys of the homes and farms of rural districts will show allow that about 00 90 per cent of tile the mechanical lionia and farm work Is not now new or construction work but repair says degraff too much emphasis cannot bo be laid upon this plia pliana so ot of shop work and in fact all courses should be built around this b basis repair we n must lust not forget that our rural boys boy aro are going out to function mechanically chani cally on tho the old farm and at homo home and not willi plan with idea that we aro are making tradesmen we will fall lo 10 fill the measure of 0 farm mechanics in our rural schools in iny courses in rope work sheet metal and cold metal work plumbing toy in making alIng leather work and bab biting students are expected to vitalize repair by bringing articles needing repair from homo home next years course will probably pro bobly include In cluda parm farm woodwork elementary electricity tri city farm A machinery I 1 act ile i ry sh sharpening arpe n and repair of tools there was waa a time when our entire mechanical program could be in the term cabinet making and that day is not tar far removed in fact romo of our rural schools are so dead to progress even now that they are holding largely to this ol 01 old d ab soleto solete form of school mechanics and even worse to that unjustifiable introductory element of the work joinery wo inest not forget that it la Is not our business to train individuals its as a finished trade product but rather to meet the emergency arising from froin t a dozen and ono one sources in other words wo we must teach each the boy to meet tho the repair job which crosses his 1119 way ut at its ilia daly bisk ask how tar fai doos joinery or cabinet making serve that purpose 7 only so tar far as thoy they do servo serve it 11 are thoy they justifiable in rural high sch school 01 ol courso course 1 I believe I 1 have end each student who ever took cabinet making in the wasatch high school and anc not one has ever tackled a real plech of cabinet making since anco leaving school ilow how does doea this look as compared with one of my boys who riding thy the I 1 range made ind and sold seven bridles in a single season or tho the one who went about during the summer laeson and helped hla his neighbors to the extent of seven spliced hay bay ropes our pen pea cannery was out of running order a whole day luring aaring its first year ol of running ting be caiso a man be found to make a rope splice nov each boy who takes farm mechanics can do a job like that tho the time spent on learning to tc make joints outside of tho three or 01 f lr ir cammon common ones which should be taught in direct construction of pro ejects are educational wai wastage tago As aa aro also the hours and hour houm of at time spent in cabinet finishing if wo we are ara honest in our off efforts lorts we must get out of the old easy rut and give to the boy the things which will function roost most frequently in ills his life wo we are all an la different ferenti dlf environments even in adral sections and must fl all our cournos to suit local needs but got get away from that cabinet making and janary and you will bo be happier in work there was a time when I 1 was wll wit ling to follow tho the easy courso course because I 1 knew no better but some good men directed mo ino to tho the light alad a id I 1 have been well veil repaid for following ewt ng it go itsou thou and do likewise teach a boy to reban dlo tools rna make e doub doublas leand and single trees mako handles racks food hoppers etc and your woodwork will function the utah farmer |