To obtain a merit badge for Blacksmithing a scout must 1.
The standard of blacksmithing must be absolute within blacksmithing, but what is blacksmithing?
The ultimate criterion of blacksmithing is producing a good shoe, but the nature of a good shoe is fixed, not by blacksmithing, but by the activities in which horses are used.
Illustration: John Hopkins, a park employee, demonstrates the use of period blacksmithing tools in the Moffett Blacksmith Shop.
Kidwell near Hunter was equipped with harnesses, a two-horse plow, and blacksmithing tools, but also a gasoline engine, an oil drum and automobile.
Blacksmithing was a trade which required skill, but also courage, to wield heavy instruments, work with molten metals and face stiff competition and the sometimes ugly customers.
The continuance of farming and limited blacksmithing in the Floris area provides a continuity with earlier eras that is also reflected in the equestrian and youth activities of the park.
Henry Moffett, realizing that the advent of the tractor and automobile would eliminate the need for his business, displayed considerable foresight by collecting blacksmithing tools all over the Washington area.
Remember the story of Elihu Burritt, An' how he clum up to the top, Got all the knowledge 'at he ever had Down in a blacksmithing shop?
In the blacksmithing and wagon-making they learn to take iron and wood in the rough and turn out a good, substantial wagon.
In 1905 Lars Nilsson purchased his brother's interest in the business and as his trade grew he was forced to give up the blacksmithing shop in order to concentrate his efforts and attention upon the mercantile branch.
Andrew Nilsson had previously established himself in the blacksmithing business in Dayton and on his return, Lars Nilsson entered the brother's shop, adding the wagon making industry to the blacksmithing business.
This new company embarked in a wider field, taking over the manufacture of wagons and carriages as well as blacksmithing and horseshoeing.
During my last two years in school I did what teaching in blacksmithing my literary work permitted, the school being without an instructor in this industry for a short while.
I was very happy to receive, along with my academic diploma, a certificate also from the blacksmithing division.
I also did some little work in blacksmithing while in the shop.
I wanted my brother to enter the blacksmith-shop, as I saw visions of a blacksmithing and wheelwrighting business to be owned and conducted by Lomax Brothers some time in the future.
My first work was as instructor in blacksmithing and wheelwrighting in the Hungerford Industrial School at Eatonville, Fla.
Dykes and Company, doing a general wheelwrighting and blacksmithing business--the largest business of its kind in the town.
I then secured work at my trades in Birmingham until August, 1901, when three of us who had been classmates at Tuskegee decided to form a partnership and conduct on a large scale a general blacksmithing and wheelwrighting business.
After much hesitation I went to the Florida State Normal and Industrial School, to which Mr. Young had been called as President, as instructor in blacksmithing and wheelwrighting, where I have since been employed.
At the Santee Agency a tract of nearly 500 acres gives room that is well used for farming and stock-raising, and well-arranged shops give employment in carpentry, blacksmithing and printing and other avocations.
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