PROGRESS IN AORTCULTURAL EDUCATION, 583 



In this connection it is worthy of note that the United States 

 Department of Aji-ricnlture has made })lans for laying- out and con- 

 ductino- modid school j^ardens at the Louisiana Pui-cliasc Exposition. 

 Prof. C. F. Wheeler, of the Bureau of Phmt Industry, has heen put 

 in oharj^e of this work, and if liis present plans are carried out an 

 expei-ienced man will he in charj>-e of the o-ardens throuj^hout the 

 season and will conduct daily exercises with volunteer pupils from the 

 St. Louis schools. 



WESTERN STATES. 



The far West lias fui-nislied A'our rommittec hut few rei)orts of 

 vetfetablc oardeniiiii' in schools. It is known that the normal schools 

 at Los Angeles, C'al., and Salt Lake City, IHah, have made garden 

 work a feature of their practice schools for a number of j'ears. Pueblo, 

 Col., schools have also made successful experiments in gardening. In 

 Riverside County, Cal., school gardening was started this spring in 

 11 schools. Kegarding the work in the Riverside (city) schools, the 

 Riverside Morning Enterprise says ''School-garden work was begun 

 l)y the tirst and s(K'<)nd grades, but the infection soon spread to the 

 third and fourth grades and on to all the other classes of the school. 

 The children spaded up the hard ground themselves, worked it up by 

 rakes and shovels, got all the seeds they could from every source, and 

 took vast pleasure and satisfaction in planting their flowers and \ eg- 

 etables, and in caring for them when they came up. They would light 

 for the gardens — no one dared lay a linger on them, save in the way of 

 kindness." 



INSTTLAR POSSESSIONS. 



Attention has been given to garden work in the schools of Hawaii 

 for more than 50 years. General Armstrong, founder of Hampton 

 Normal and Agricultural Institute, reports that in lISoG he had organ- 

 ized agricultural and industrial societies among the natives and that 

 kale, sweet potatoes, s([uash, and the like were grown with great 

 success by some of the schools. Work of this kind has l)een continued 

 up to the present time and now occupies a prominent place in the school 

 curriculum. The work along agricultural lines was found to he so 

 popular and so helpful to the general school work that in iHH^s, shortly 

 after the estal)lishment of the normal school in Honolulu, a department 

 of nature study and agriculture was organized in this school and put 

 in charge of a graduate of Cornell I'^niversitv- This course in the 

 normal school includes garden and field work, budding, grafting, 

 potting, transplanting, etc., study of domestic and wild animals, bene- 

 ficial and injurious insects, etc. Flats of ground are assigned to 

 groups of normal students who sui)ervise the work of the pupils of 

 the ti-.iining school in caring for these plats. Th(\so training-school 

 pupils work together by grades, raising vegetables which are disposed 



