Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 22, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 April 1943 — VOC. AG. FARM SHOP TURNS OUT JOBS [ARTICLE]

VOC. AG. FARM SHOP TURNS OUT JOBS

One activity of the vocational agriculture boys iu the De* Motte high school is the farnr shop. Here the boys have made quite a number of items the past year, as well as repaired a number of important pieces of farm machinery and equipment. From the outset, it appeared that due to the difficulty of securing new r farm equipment and the need for making present equipment last longer, more emphasis than usual would have been placed this year repairing farm tools. Such items as a tractor disc harrow", mower, sled, cultivator, corn sheller, spike-tooth harrow", mower sickles, wheel barrow*, hay knife, as well as numerous tools were either repaired or repaired and repainted. This has help to conserve our resources of production and aid materially in solving some of our individual production problems. For instance, the tractor disc already mentioned was completely overhauled, equipped with new" spools and bearings, given two (*oats of paint, the primer coat being red lead paint at a cost of only $6.45. Another hoy repaired a pretty dilapidated set of harness with materials costing about SI.OO and sold the set for SIO.OO. New spiketooth bars for the above harrow" were fashioned from rough oak and refitted with teeth at a cost of less than twenty cents each. Quite a few" new" projects of wood were also built, including a hog crate, hog colony house, outdoor poultry feeder, indoor poultry feeder, 4 farm ladders, doubletree and singletree set completely ironed, fountain stand, pig troughs, milk stools, tool and nail boxes and many other items. Rome soldering, rope loop, knot and splicing and far melectrical exercises were also completed. Rome snapshots have been made of the above work and if they turn out good will he on public display later.