Excerpt from The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., 1905 A trade course usually occupies three years - the first in the trade school; the second in one of the productive industries, where the student gets an idea Of the commercial value of his work; and the third in the trade school again, where the course is completed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.