Rural School Leaflet 



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to give us a very interesting account of it. The caterpillar that afterward 

 becomes a monarch butterfly has a green body, with narrow black and 

 yellow cross-stripes. 



10. Perhaps some of you will this summer help to improve the school 

 grounds. If so, tell us about it. 



1 1 . "What farm crop has been most interesting to you ? What can you 

 learn about this crop ? How was the ground prepared for it ? How was 

 it handled? How harvested? 



Measuring beans 



GARDENS 



The Editors 



Many of our boys and girls will have gardens this spring at home or 

 at the school or on a vacant lot in the neighborhood. The success 

 of a garden depends on a wise choice of ground, good preparation of the 

 soil, good seed, good cultivation, and most of all on the character of the 

 young gardener, who must be painstaking, persevering, industrious, and 

 able to continue a piece of work until it is finished. 



In the following pages are some directions for garden-making. Read 

 them carefully and talk them over with the man who has the best 

 garden in your neighborhood. Perhaps your teacher will ask him to 

 come to the school and give a talk on garden-making. You will then be 

 able to ask him some questions that are puzzling you in connection with 

 your garden plans. 



