Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — FARM HANDICRAFT CLUB [ARTICLE]

FARM HANDICRAFT CLUB

Planned to Maintain Interest In Club Work During Winter Months and To Develop ManuaP’Skill. To encourage boys and girls espec-. ially those in the country, to spend their spare moments during the fal' and winter months usefully, the de partment’s directors of juvenile club work in the north and west, working in cooperation with the state colleges of agriculture, have developed plans for farm and home handicraft clubs for boys and girls. The purpose of these clubs is twofold: First, to maintain interest in the agricultural, club during the season when active work in the field and garden is suspended; and, second to develop manual skill hr members through practical woik that readily be correlated by teachers with the manual training work of the school as well as with the agriculture of the farm and the domestic activities of the home. The work is so planned as to be cap‘able of extension throughout the year, or it may - be limited to the regular nine months school year. While effort will be directed primarily toward interesting members of the agricultural and home economic clubs in these activities, membership is to be open to children 10 to 18 years of age. These clubs will be directed much as are the oorn clubs, girls’ garden ing clubs, canning clubs, and other organizations aimed to give skill and experience in raising crops ar animals or in utilizing by-products of the farm. The leaders of the clubs will supply the members with specially prepared circulars of direction, in which are to oe Included working drawings _ and lists of materials for accomplishing the different projects. The clubs, while directly vocation,.! also will be designed to minister somewhat to the winter social needs cl children and will provide for exhib its and- even for contests Members will be encouraged to select and carry through during the year 10 of what might be called the handicraft units suggested in the list below. This list "esigned for the guidance of the directors of these special Clubs, and of

teachers offers valuable suggestions also to parents who wish to plan useful activities for their children, anl should be found suggestive by those concerned with the development of .1 most any type of organized work for the amusement and improvement of jurajl children. Following is the ltsi. of activities” suggested for the bo.f? and girls who enroll in the clubs. 1. Rope tying and splicing. 2. Making seed testers (box, blotter, and rag doll testers). 3; Making a hencoop and brooder. 4. Fruit grafting and-tree surgery. 5. .Making a fly trap or window screen. 6. Making a wood box for kitchen or sitting room. 7. Making a bird house and watering trough. 8. Making a hot bed or cold frame. 9. Making's step ladder or handy ladder for farm and home. 10. Making 1 dozen vegetable mar- , ket crates. 11. Sharpening saw, pair of scissors, carving knife. . . —*——7 12. Making a medicine cabinet. 13. Making and laying a cement walk or floor. 14. Making a bookcase or libre.y tile. 15. First aid to farm implements, 1 e, 1 epairing. (a) Whippietree. (b) Pair of shoes. (c) Fork — : (d) Gate. ' 16. Drawing plan pf 80 acre farmstead. - ■

17. Forging—two kinds practica 1 , related to farm work. 18. Welding— two kinds, practice!, related to farm work. 19. Horseshoe making, 20. First aid to household furhiturc, 1 e, repairing. (a) Chair. , (b) Table. (c) Picture. (d) boor lock or hinge. 21. Pressing men’s and women« suits. 22. Papering a room. 23. Painting, staining, or treating floor. 24. Making a farm dooryard gate 25. Making a home made fireless cooker, one of two methods. 26. Making a home canner, one of r wo methods.

27. Making a kitchen shelf or kitchen work chair. 28. Getting out a set of plans and specifications for model farm horns-. 29. Giving first aid to school furniture and equipment, such as the re pair of a seat, window r fence, broken gate, blackboard, doorstep, or sidewalk; — 30. Rep: iring the cover er broken back of a book. 31. Metal work for household. 32. Modeling in clay and' plaster. 33. Leather work, repair cf leather goods or art work. 34. Dyeing, stenciling and block printing cloth. 35. Pottery for use in the nome. 36. Basketry, i e, making baskets for use in * gathering and marketing vegetables and fruit. 37. Making a milk stool or bread cutting board. i - 38. , Home made mill for fruit juice and cider. 39. Hat and coat rack for hall. 40. Making a table or a workbench. 41. Knjtting or crocheting a rug. 42. Drafting a‘pattern for a garment or cutting and fitting a garment. 43. Mending pottery, china, anl gtass<— -■ . ■ -t- —“