Rural School Leaflet 



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went with us. Once when she went we took a lunch, and after we had 

 hoed our gardens and watered our flowers we went over on the school 

 yard and played games and ate our lunch. When school opened in the 

 fall we found our gardens growing nicely. The second week of school, 

 Mr. C. E. Shepherd and Mr. W. H. Young judged our gardens. The 

 prizes of sixty cents and forty cents for the second and third best com were 

 won by Susie Dart and Florence Jenner. The prizes of thirty cents and 

 twenty cents to those having the second and third best gardens were won by 

 Stella and Agnes Mekowska and Marguerite Bonney. Thirty cents and 

 twenty cents to those under eight years of age were won by Edwin Hagen 

 and Raymond Green. 



•We next took up our best vegetables and flowers and shrubbery, and made 

 an exhibit at the Genesee Coimty Fair. We received many compliments 

 on our exhibit, and received first premium of five dollars. 



As the Education Department at Albany wished a picture of our garden, 

 pictures were taken of it and one was sent to the department. 



Now as " Jack Frost " was putting in his appearance we took up what 

 was left in our gardens; some things we took home, others we gave to a 

 couple of poor families in town. We saved some of our cornstalks and 

 com to use for decorating to-day. 



We certainly enjoyed our first year's experience in school gardening. 

 We made many mistakes, we will admit, but we did the best we knew how, 

 and shall try another year to profit by the mistakes we made in the past 

 vear. 



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EXPLANATION OF MAP 



Our school garden is located on Ellicott Street Road, two miles from 

 the village of Batavia. The garden is one hundred twelve feet long and 

 twenty feet wide. This is divided into plots four feet by twenty, with 

 a path one foot wide between them. Each child under ten years of age 

 has one plot, and each child over ten years of age has two plots to work. 

 This year we have grown vegetables and flowers on them. 



