- A. Head:
- 1. Blindness, one eye.
- 2. Blindness, both eyes.
- 3. Bronchitis, asthma, hay fever.
- 4. Deafness, one ear.
- 5. Deafness, both ears.
- 6. Injury.
- B. Body:
- 1. Abdominal wound.
- 2. Gastritis.
- 3. Heart trouble.
- 4. Hernia.
- 5. Injury ribs, collar bone, etc.
- 6. Intestinal trouble.
- 7. Kidney trouble.
- 8. Lung trouble.
- 9. Spinal trouble.
- 10. Stomach trouble.
- C. Arms and hands:
- 1. Amputation, one or more fingers.
- 2. Amputation, one hand, either arm.
- 3. Amputation, both hands.
- 4. Amputation between wrist and elbow, either.
- 5. Amputation between wrist and elbow, both.
- 6. Amputation, elbow and shoulder, either.
- 7. Amputation, elbow and shoulder, both.
- 8. Amputation at shoulder, either arm.
- 9. Amputation at shoulder, both arms.
- 10. Ankylosis of fingers.
- 11. Ankylosis of wrist.
- 12. Ankylosis of elbow.
- 13. Ankylosis of shoulder.
- 14. Injury.
- D. Legs and feet:
- 1. Amputation, one or more toes.
- 2. Amputation, one foot, either leg.
- 3. Amputation, both feet.
- 4. Amputation, between ankle and knee, either leg.
- 5. Amputation, between ankle and knee, both legs.
- 6. Amputation, between knee and hip, either leg.
- 7. Amputation, between knee and hip, both legs.
- 8. Amputation at hip, either leg.
- 9. Amputation at hip, both legs.
- 10. Ankylosis of ankle.
- 11. Ankylosis of knee.
- 12. Ankylosis of hip.
- 13. Injury.
- E. Miscellaneous:
- 1. Cancer.
- 2. Chronic appendicitis.
- 3. Eczema.
- 4. Epilepsy.
- 5. Gas Poisoning.
- 6. Inflammation of veins.
- 7. Malaria.
- 8. Nerve wounds.
- 9. Neurasthenia.
- 10. Palsy.
- 11. Paralysis, partial.
- 12. Paralysis, serious.
- 13. Rheumatism.
- 14. Shell shock.
- 15. Tuberculosis.
- 10. Varicocele.
Why Take Training?
Because it is necessary. Even if you grow up on a farm, you can learn to farm better than your father and your grandfather farmed. Something new in farming is discovered every day—new methods of treating soils, new methods of growing old crops, and new crops that can be grown profitably on old farms, new methods of planting, cultivating, and harvesting, and a thousand other new things that save labor, time, and money, improve products, secure better markets, and generally make farming profitable. If you have lost a leg or an arm you will need special training to accustom you to work with artificial appliances, and you may find it advantageous, even if you grew up on a farm, to take up some new line with which you are not familiar, some line in which your handicap will not be a handicap. But, especially if you have been disabled and have never farmed before, you will need training to make you a successful farmer in spite of your handicap. The Government will provide just that sort of training you need, and will help you find out what that training should be.
Overcoming Your Disability
You may be without practical farm experience. Never mind that. Go after it, and with vocational training you will get it.
The most serious disablements, even the loss of two members, even blindness have not prevented efficient application to some of the many agricultural specialties. Some disabled farmers have deemed it unwise to undertake work in the field because of amputation of both legs, or even the loss of one, not realizing that a sabot which will prevent sinking in the ground may be adjusted to an artificial leg, making it possible to travel with comfort over plowed or soft soil. Besides, we now have the tractor, and implements with such light draft as to permit of riding even if using horsepower. You can “come back” at some sort of farm work as many other men have done.
Devices to Beat the Handicap
Special tools and implements and certain appliances for the handling of agricultural machinery have been used by disabled men most successfully, and are being suggested by the inventive genius of the disabled themselves. You may benefit thereby in your effort to return to civil life as an efficient and self-supporting man.
Educational Requirements
You who have grown up on a farm have acquired a practical education that is invaluable. Of course school training and even advanced courses are valuable and will greatly assist you, but it is our desire to impress you with the fact that you can succeed though your schooling has been meager.