Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . tend that he has followed the instructions,because the measurements show the mis-take beyond controversy; no argument ap-plies, it is the acknowledgement of an un-truth in concrete form and the lesson isdriven home. This building contains the office of thefarm superintendent, the blacksmithshop, and a room eighteen by thirty-fivefeet fitted up with the necessary parapher-. nalia for teaching the elements of mechan-ics. The blacksmith shop and wo


Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . tend that he has followed the instructions,because the measurements show the mis-take beyond controversy; no argument ap-plies, it is the acknowledgement of an un-truth in concrete form and the lesson isdriven home. This building contains the office of thefarm superintendent, the blacksmithshop, and a room eighteen by thirty-fivefeet fitted up with the necessary parapher-. nalia for teaching the elements of mechan-ics. The blacksmith shop and workingshop furnish practical appliances for work-ing out the theories developed and setforth by drawings, which are made to scalein the manual training room proper. Atool case in one corner provides for theproper keeping of the necessary hand andmachine tools to carry out the mechanicaldevelopment of the plans. Every farmer and every business manis the better off for having had a mechan-ical training. When a boy is told to makea box four inches long, three inches wideand two inches deep the problem seemssimple, but when the work is complete andhe shows the instructor a box of differentdimensions it is of no use for him to con-


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