money spent, dates of planting, blooming, and
gathering of vegetables, or colors of flowers, and
so forth.

REFERENCES:

"Harper's Book for Young Gardeners," A. H. Verill, Harper.

"Beginner's Garden Book," Allen French, Macmillan.

"Home Vegetable Gardening from A to Z," Adolph Krulm, Doubleday.

"Suburban Gardens," Grace Tabor, Outing Publishing Co.

"The Vegetable Garden," R. L. Watts, Outing Publishing Co.

[Illustration: HANDY-WOMAN

SYMBOL--HAMMER]

1. Know how to mend, temporarily with soap, a
small leak in a water or gas pipe.

2. Know how to turn off the water or gas supply
for the house and whom to notify in case of
accident, OR

Know what to do to thaw out frozen water pipes, OR

Be able to put on a washer on a faucet, OR

Cover a hot water boiler neatly and securely to
conserve the heat, using newspaper and string.

3. Know the use of and how to use a wrench and
pliers.

4. Demonstrate the way to use a hammer,
screw-driver, awl, saw can-opener, corkscrew.

5. Locate by sounding, an upright in a plaster
wall, and know why and when this is necessary to
be done.

6. Put up a shelf using brackets, strips of wood
or both and know under what conditions to use
either.

7. Be able to put up hooks for clothes or other
articles and properly space them.

8. Be able to measure for and put up a rod in a
clothes closet, OR

Be able to repair the spring in a window shade and
tack the shade on the roller, OR

Know how to keep clean and care for window and
door screens.

9. Must wrap, tie securely and neatly, and label a
parcel for delivery by express or parcel post.

10. Be able to sharpen knives using either a
grindstone, whetstone, the edge of an iron stove,
or another knife.

11. Clean, trim and fill an oil lamp, or put on a
gas mantle, OR Clean, oil and know how to repair
the belt of a sewing machine, OR Lay a fire in a
fireplace and tell what to do with the ashes.

12. Choose a wall space for a picture, measure for
the wire, fasten the wire to the picture frame and
gi