Ontario Sessional Papers, 1908, . PORT OF THE No. 14 The instruction in Farm Mechanics has been supplemented by visits toseveral factories in the City of Guelph, manufacturing agricultural im-plements and gasoline engines. Two afternoons were spent by the SecondYear men during the fall term in the showrooms and workshops of the Lou-den Machinery Co., Tolton Bros., and the Gilson Manufacturing Co., in-vestigating the construction and latest improvements in the goods turnedout by these firms. Considerable amount of time had been given to pre-pare the showrooms for the practical demonstr
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1908, . PORT OF THE No. 14 The instruction in Farm Mechanics has been supplemented by visits toseveral factories in the City of Guelph, manufacturing agricultural im-plements and gasoline engines. Two afternoons were spent by the SecondYear men during the fall term in the showrooms and workshops of the Lou-den Machinery Co., Tolton Bros., and the Gilson Manufacturing Co., in-vestigating the construction and latest improvements in the goods turnedout by these firms. Considerable amount of time had been given to pre-pare the showrooms for the practical demonstrations, by having a varietyof implements and machinery arranged and fixed up to illustrate the meritsof the inventions. Thorough explanations of the working parts were givenby the managers of the respective firms. We tender these gentlemen andtheir firms our sincere thanks for the privilege of spending so much time intheir workshops gathering most useful and profitable information regardingfarm implements, machinery, and gasoline Course in Machine Shop Practice; Bench and Vice Work. It is with great pleasure I have to announce that the Loudon Machin-ery Co. has offered a prize of $20, confined to the present Second Year stu-dents, for the best plan of a barn to accommodate twenty head of cattle,five horses, and all the necessary adjuncts which such a building shouldcontain in the way of root cellar, loose boxes, pens, etc. They are also pre-pared to fi:s up in the Hall any piece of machinery, in their line, we maychoose to select. We are indebted, too, to the Gilson Manufacturing Co. for donating atwo and a half horse power gasoline engine, and to Mr. Brown of the As-pinwall Manufacturing Co., Jackson, Mich., for the gift of a potato planter,sprayer, cutter and sorter. In this connection I would like to mention that we require for demon-stration work with power, all kinds of light machinery, such as grinders,pulpers, sprayers, cream separators, and such parts of field
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