Farm shop work in Pennsylvania; . f farm shopwork never attem])ted to teach. This may be due in a large meas-ure to the following reasons : 1. Traditional manual training ideals have influencedshop work in agriculture. 2. Text and reference books rellect the same tendenciesto a greater or less degree. 3. Teachers have thought too much in terms of work thatcan Ix ]Krformed entirely within the school j^lant. / Table 5 shows the actual, as well as the relati\e number oftimes that certain construction work is done. If we compare withit, the kinds of work usually described in text books, Ave find c
Farm shop work in Pennsylvania; . f farm shopwork never attem])ted to teach. This may be due in a large meas-ure to the following reasons : 1. Traditional manual training ideals have influencedshop work in agriculture. 2. Text and reference books rellect the same tendenciesto a greater or less degree. 3. Teachers have thought too much in terms of work thatcan Ix ]Krformed entirely within the school j^lant. / Table 5 shows the actual, as well as the relati\e number oftimes that certain construction work is done. If we compare withit, the kinds of work usually described in text books, Ave find con-siderable discrepancy, particularly in the relative order of import- 19 ance. For instance, thirteen farmers out of one hundred havemade a bench hook—ver_\- commonly advocated, and seventy-onefarmers per hundred built wire fence—a piece of work not common- /^fQu^rycy FSy^ /OO /zA/^avs 1 \ \ \ 1 Wire fence 2 Nest for laying hens 3 Chicken coop 4 miking stool 5 Nest for setting hen 6 Fcnu gate 7 Jockey stick 8 HEunmer handle. 23 Sledge handle 21 Chicken feeder 22 Pojl-ry house CH^A//C5 rO/? TM£: v//;/////A That ooms ly undertaken b} schools. Many similar instances are apparentin the table. A conclusion that must be drawn is that farm shop w^orkshould not be limited to the kinds of work that can be done withinthe school house, with materials and tools there available. 20 Table 5 Showing kinds of construction work in wood performed by farmers on 400Pennsylvania farms. When the same object was both constructed and re-paired by a farmer it was listed as construction work. Frequency per Frequenc} Job 400 farms 1000 fa 1. Wire fence 284 710. 2. Nest for laying hens 269 3. Chicken coop 258 645. 4. Milking stool 257 5. Nest for setting hens 256 640. 6. Farm gate 245 7. Jockey stick 207 S. Hammer handle 205 9. Feeding trough for chicks 181 10. Pig pen 178 445. 11. Rail fence 173 12. Horse manger 172 430. 13. Cattle manger 170 425. 14. Boar
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