=Equipment and material for school of fifty, period of six days=: 1 keg gunpowder, 1/2 case monobel, 1 coil fuse, 1 packet detonators (100), 36 shovels, 36 picks, 3 pairs snips, 3 pairs wire plyers, 3 hammers, 3 hand saws, 3 hand axes, 3 Marlin spikes, 2 braces, 2 bits (3/8-inch), 1 auger (1-3/8-inch), 5 yards cotton, 2 lbs. 2-inch wire nails, 2 lbs. 2-1/2-inch wire nails, 2 lbs. soft wire (stovepipe), 2 bbls. empty jam tins (1 to 2 lbs.), 100 lin. ft. 1 inch x 6 inch common boards, 36 lin. ft. 2 inch x 4 inch scantling, 1 good sized blackboard and chalk, 2 work benches (improvised), 3 boxes fusee matches, 2 dozen sandbags with ties attached, brush wood, cull lumber, bale wire, sods, etc. EXAMINATION PAPERS. Lecture I. 1. What care should be taken in handling explosives? 2. What should oily stains on dynamite indicate? 3. What should be done with cases showing oily stains? 4. What two methods should be employed in thawing dynamite? 5. Name a few causes of accidents in handling dynamite. 6. Name a few causes of accidents in handling detonators. 7. What care should be taken in shipping explosives by wagons? By rail? 8. What are the principal features to be considered in the construction of a magazine? 9. Is it wise to store explosives in tunnels or caves? 10. How may a magazine be made bullet proof? 11. What precautions should be taken with men working in or about magazines? Lecture II. 12. Name the explosives used in the service. 13. In what shape is gun-cotton put up for service use? 14. What are the characteristics of gun-cotton? 15. How is wet gun-cotton detonated? 16. To what use is dry gun-cotton put? 17. Is gun-cotton generally considered a safe explosive? 18. What uses are made of gun-cotton? 19. Explain how you would prepare a gun-cotton charge. 20. What is a detonator? 21. What kind of explosive is used in service detonator? 22. What kinds of fuses are used in the service? 23. At what rate do service fuses burn per second? 24. At what rate do instantaneous fuses burn per second? 25. What use is made of picric acid? T. N. T.? Nitro-Glycerine? 26. Is picric acid a safe explosive? Ans. No. 27. And why? Lecture III. 28. Explain the working of a .303 short rifle grenade. 29. How are they packed ready for shipping? 30. How are they prepared for firing? 31. How are they carried? 32. What arrangements are to be used with the rifle for giving the necessary elevation? 33. What kind of ammunition is used with them? 34. Explain the working of a hand grenade No. 5, Mark 1. 35. What explosive is used in No. 5, Mark 1? 36. How far may it be thrown? 37. What is meant by cane and streamer type of grenade? 38. Explain the working of hand grenade No. 1, Mark 1. 39. Why do we use dummy bombs? 40. Why do we put explosives in dummy bombs? 41. Explain the manufacture of the jam-tin dummy?