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April 24. How to make a garden. 
May 1. Rice, the food of a billion people. 
May 8. The wild flowers now in bloom. 
It is necessary to limit the number of tickets for these talks to 
children. ‘This is due to the small size of the present lecture room. 
Not more than 70 children can be accommodated at any one talk. 
Tickets will be issued in the order of application until the number 
is exhausted. 
These talks will be repeated for school classes, if so desired, 
either at the Garden or at the school. 
A BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION 
The boys and girls of the state of Vermont held, during the 
last week in October, at Windsor, an Industrial Exposition. This 
fact is significant of advance in children’s work. Exhibits came 
from all over that state, even from the smallest rural community. 
It was an opportunity for the boys and girls of an entire state to 
show at one time and at one place the work they had been doing 
with their own hands. 
This exposition is a part of a widespread campaign, but in no 
other state has there ever been so complete and typical an exhibit. 
It was typical in that it expressed in many ways the everyday 
efforts of the schools, State University, and other institutions of 
Vermont for the real education of children. One placard in the 
Arena, where the exhibit was held, was expressive of our modern 
viewpoint: “ Boys do not leave the farm because of hard work, 
but because there is nothing there but hard work.” The exposi- 
tion represented hard work on the part of farm boys and girls, 
but hard work with an outlook. 
Any boy or girl under eighteen might exhibit. These exhibits 
ranged from cocks, prize pumpkins, and potatoes, to models of 
flying machines, and fine darning of socks. Some of the best work 
was done by the students from the Lyndon School of Agriculture. 
This exhibit was in charge of a student, a lad of seventeen. In 
fact, all the exhibits were in charge of boys and girls, and much 
of the judging was done by them under supervision. The band 
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