rk of the school.

The mechanical work of the school is splendidly organized. First of all,
the pupils built a large part of the equipment themselves. Five simple
forges, made by the students of pineboards and concrete, form an
excellent shop equipment, besides giving the boys who did the work an
inkling of the ease with which a forge can be erected in connection with
the tool-house on the farm. The boys built a turning lathe, on which the
wood turning of the school is done. Besides the shop-work there is a
well-organized course in mechanical drawing. The whole department is
prepared to teach boys, particularly farm boys, some of the things which
they will most need in the mechanical work on the farms.

The mechanical courses are open to the boys in the grades, as well as to
the high school and the short course pupils. The work is graded, and may
be followed through the high school course.

VI A Look at the Domestic Science

While the boys are in the shops the girls are occupied with domestic
science. A well-equipped laboratory and sewing-room furnish the basis
for some thorough work. The Domestic Science Department is one to which
Mr. Cederstrom points with justifiable pride. "Of all my constructive
work since coming here," he says, "I probably take my greatest pride in
our Domestic Science Department, where elementary and advanced work is
offered in cooking and in household economy."

Because the space in the school was small, and the demand for
instruction large, Mr. Cederstrom planned the domestic science tables
himself, and superintended their building. Again the effectiveness of
the school's work is shown by its results. With the modest equipment
which the funds and space available provided, the girls in the Domestic
Science Department each year serve a dinner to the farmers and farmers'
wives attending the annual farmers' institute held in the school in
February. On one occasion the department baked almost half a cord of
bread, roasted one hundred and forty pounds of beef, and fed five
hundred and seventeen persons at one dinner.

The sewing work includes a complete course in dressmaking. Students are
required to make patterns from pictures selected in fashion magazines.
These patterns are then used in cutting out the garments, which the
girls themselves make up.

Each girl in the High School is required to take at least one year each
of cooking and of sewing. These courses occupy five periods a week. An