Show PRACTICAL F FARM ARM MECHANICS the department of agriculture will shortly issue farmers bulletin 6 68 8 entitled laboratory exercises in farm me chancis for agricultural high schools the purpose of ana ne author daiv ani 10 professor of agica agricultural nural engineri Engine engineering ei ing i mississippi A and i dechai Xe mechanics chai c 1 1 Coi college lege is t supply y high 1 teachers i school teachers ati w ii ascal suggestions lugge stiens for deac teaching 1 ling boys who a are e to be farmers the abst wit ind and moar economical cco eco nomica methods for doing some of the more common Or linion mechanical work of the farm the bulletin which is clabor at abely ely illustrated gives in its 26 pages 42 practical exercises the first five exercises have to do with the use of rope on the farm arid and show the best way of tying knots and ni making aking hitches and splices used 1 in n hitching animals and in tying up farm produce the next lexi four exercises deal with hitching up horses fitting collars and repairing harness four exercises on the har handling 1 idan of f gas engines and repair of belting deal effectively with the 1 use of power later exercises have ave to do with the practical st study my and repair of different t kinds of field feld and farm machin ery cry run by engine or i er h ere is also a series of exercises having to do with farm buildings dealing with such times as concrete posts feed ing g floors hav nop houses drop dop klets ests pates izates fencing paint painting ia and the bulletin closes with a se his rie s of exercises on farm surveying terracing irrigation and drainage and road dragging the materials used in the exercises aises are such as are to be found on farms near the schoolhouses or such as can be readily constructed ted from the working drawings and diagrams by the teacher and pupils the bulletin should be of great practical service to high school and other teachers in the rural districts it may be had free on application to the division of publication department of A agriculture e washington D C |