Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . and band saws buzzand pony planers, boring, mortising and tenoning machines, cabin-ets, benches, and tools. Yellow and white pine, poplar, and hard woods are used. r««.«f This shop is supplied with general carpenters tools Carpenter circular and small saws, upright moulder and mortis-and ing machine, and employs about twenty workmen It Shop has charge of the general repair work of the buildings, of which there are upwards of fifty, and of thefurniture connected therewith ; it als
Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . and band saws buzzand pony planers, boring, mortising and tenoning machines, cabin-ets, benches, and tools. Yellow and white pine, poplar, and hard woods are used. r««.«f This shop is supplied with general carpenters tools Carpenter circular and small saws, upright moulder and mortis-and ing machine, and employs about twenty workmen It Shop has charge of the general repair work of the buildings, of which there are upwards of fifty, and of thefurniture connected therewith ; it also manufactures new work-easy chairs, desks, tables, and other cabinet work, and does a portion of the new building. P The work of this department includes all the school NormaSchoo. printing, as letter heads, envelopes, circulars caS press logues, outside job work, two monthly publications and one weekly paper. The equipment consists oftwof cylinder presses, two job presses, a lever and steam cute/perforator stabber, card cutter, and wire-stitching machine Itemploys about twenty men. 84 CATALOGUE OF. Student Printers at Work This department has the care of the steam plant forEngineering furnishing the steam for power and heat, also ofDepartment the water supply. It includes the management ofnine boilers, the running of three large and foursmall engines, the heating of three dry-kilns and nearly all the build-ings on the premises, the running of the steam pumps connectedwith the water supply and sewerage, and the laying of water andsteam pipes in both new and repair work. It employs an averageof seventeen men. The land under cultivation comprises about 700Farming acres, 100 at the School farm and 600 at the Hem-enway farm, five miles distant. Corn and oats arethe principal crops, with some hay, potatoes and other farms are stocked with 253 milch cows and young cattle, 40horses, and several hundred hogs and fowls. The product of butter,milk and cream from the da
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