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the community. A forestry nursery, fertilizer experiment plats, grain and grass plats, a vegetable garden, hotbeds, cold frames, etc., are maintained by the students for demonstration work.

The State department of education requires at least one room for the exclusive use of the agricultural schools, and when a regular recitation room is used another room is necessary as a laboratory. In addition to these two rooms there is provided a room to serve as a shop, in which is located the woodworking tools, the forge, and the anvil. One of the most, if not the most, complete equipments for vocational agricultural instruction in the State is to be found in the agricultural department of the Towanda High School. Over $1,000 was expended for equipment the first year. A recitation room, soils laboratory, a carpenter shop, forge room, school creamery, a poultry room, all of which have a very complete equipment for vocational agricultural instruction, exist. The agricultural instructor has been able to secure $450 worth of donations for equipment.

AVERAGE EQUIPMENT.

The following is a required list which represents the average equipment in a Pennsylvania State vocational school. Many of the articles listed are made in the shop, but some are collected locally and others are donated, as indicated above, by commercial firms.

REQUIRED SOILS APPARATUS FOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE.

Brass soil tubes, 6.

Support frame for above (not shop-made), 1.
Supply tank for same, 1.

Glass tubes (2 by 24 inches), 6.

Galvanized iron tank (6 by 8 by 24 inches), 1.
Support frame for same (shop-made), 1.
Aspirator bottle, with connections, 1.
Soil thermometer, 1.

Glass tubes (1 by 12 inches or 13 by 12 inches), 4.
Rack or support frame for same (shop-made), 1.
Soil container for waste, 1.

Hydrometer, 1.

Glass funnels (4-inch or 6-inch diameter), 3.
Glass flasks (1-pint size), 12
Beakers (quart size), 3.
Beakers (200 cc.), 24.
Beakers brushes, 2.

Test tubes (g inch by 5 inches), 24.
Test tube brushes, 1 dozen.

Bottles for solutions (half gallon), 6.

Rubber tubing (4 inch), 12 feet.

Labels (three sizes), 3 boxes.

Gasoline blast lamps or equivalent (for schools not having gas), 2 or 3.

Scoops, 4.

shop-made), supply of.

Drinking fountains of various types, supply of.
Commercial trap nests, supply of.

Shop-made trap nests, supply of.

Brooders (one mammoth, one smaller size), 2.

Fattening crates (commercial and shop-made), supply of.

Egg tester (commercial, also one shop-made), 1
Spray pump, 1.

Exhibition coops (one or more) (both commercial and shop-made).

Oats sprouter (one or more) (both commercial and shop-made).

Catching hook (shop-made), 1.

Leg bands, collection of.

Various poultry feeds, collection of.

Poultry charts, supply of.

Insect powders and spray materials, collection of.

Poultry remedies, collection of.

Feathers (all types and kinds), collection of.

Supply of

Records. Incubators.

Chisels, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 to 2 inches, 1 each.
Chisels (-inch and 1-inch), 12.

Dividers (8-inch winged No. 35 Socket Firmer), 2 pairs.

Sweep braces (8-inch), hatchets No. 323 Barbers or equivalent. Precision, 2 pairs.

Expansive bit wrights (3 to 3 inches, large or equivalent), 7.

Drill bits (1 each No. 2-3-4-5 imported), 12 assorted. Bits (2), screwdriver (1 each No. 10) and inch H. S. & Co. or equivalent.

R. J. bits in wood case, 1 set.

Rose countersink (1-inch, No. 10, H. S. & Co. or equivalent), 1.

Reamer, 1.

Bit gauge, 1.

Hatchets (4-inch, No. 13 Hammond shingling or equivalent), 2.

Mallets (No. 3, second growth hickory. Square), 4. Rulers (2-foot, 2-fold, No. 18 Stanley or equiva

lent), 12.

Nest of pruning saws, No. 3 Disston or equivalent, 1 nest.

Screw drivers (1 each 4, 6, 8 inch; blades, H. S. & Co. New Century or equivalent), 3.

Scrapers (steel cabinet, 3 by 6, H. S. & Co. or equivalent), 2.

Screws (hand 12-inch, Jorgenson, No. 2), dozen. Nail sets (1 each Nos. 1-2-3-4, H. S. & Co. or equivalent), 4.

Spokeshaves (iron handle with planing blade), 3. Grindstone complete, Cyco (20 to 22 inches), 1. Bench grinder (8-inch, Pyke Whirlwind, with pure carborundum wheel), 1.

Stone, carborundum No. 108, 8 by 2 by 1,doublefaced combination, 2.

Drawshaves (8-inch, Witherby or equivalent), 2. Spirit level (No. 0, 24-inch, Stanley or equivalent), 1. Hack saws (12-inch, No. 4 Disston or equivalent), 6. Glue pot, 1.

Wood alcohol, 1 gallon. Varnish, 1 gallon.

Saws, 1 set.

Saw files (14 pt., 10 pt., 3 8-inch flat.
Dowel pin (sheet steel) cutter, 1.
Files, 1 each, wood hasp, flat round; rattail, 4.
Work benches (6 double or 12 single. Long benches
on side of room preferred.
Three-foot clamps, 3.
Monkey wrench, 1.
Pliers, 1 pair.
Stilson wrench, 1.
Tin shears, 1 pair.
Hack saw, 1.

Letters and numerals, Lumber, 1 each.
Coping saw,

Boards, white pine, 12 feet by 12 by 1 inch, rough,

FARM CROPS SUPPLIES FOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. Many of these supplies should be gathered during the summer, properly dried, and stored away for

class use.