By R.M. Kimsey
Three home shops have been set up recently by agricultural students. These students made work benches and tool cabinets at school during shop periods and hauled them home. Then at leisure times, the boys collected Dad’s hammers, saws, square, brace, bits, and other tools that were scattered over the farm and after sharpening and oiling, placed these tools in the cabinets.
The home shop does not mean a separate building, though some shops will be built later. John Allen Cotton of Olive Branch set up his shop beside Dad’s Ford in the garage and keeps the tools in place and locked up when not in use.
Thomas Byrd of Bunnlevel is also using the garage for a shop at present. Thomas bought a full set of new carpentry tools, as there were none to be found around the farm. Mr. Byrd was glad to pay the bill and says that he will later build a shop building and put in a forge and anvil so that general repair work can be done at home and thus save time and expense of going some distance to a shop.
Worth Lanier of Cokesbury will also build a shop later, but at present is using one side of the cotton house for a shop.
On almost every farm there is some place suitable for a home shop. Fourteen other members of the Agricultural Classes made benches and cabinets and will set up their shops as soon as the grass and boll weevils give them the time.
This home shop idea was largely experimental last year, and since it is proving one of the most practical features of the agricultural work, it will be the future policy of the instructor to help each agricultural student establish a shop at home this winter in connection with the shop instruction he receives at school.
From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Thursday, July 24, 1924
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