pin, and a lot of good times grow- 

 ing the seeds. But, better than all, 

 you become a member of a great 

 university class that, collectively 

 speaking, is going to help California 

 to become a great state. 



Now is the time to begin to help 

 if you do not wish to wait until Sep- 

 tember. Thousands % of teachers 

 from all over the United States are 

 coming to San Francisco in July to 

 attend the National Educational Asso- 

 ciation. Hundreds of these teach- 

 ers are interested in gardens. They 

 are going to hold a meeting in 

 Berkeley. Since these teachers are 

 interested in children's gardens and 

 in children, should not the California 

 Junior gardeners entertain them? We 

 are going to give them a big vege- 

 table dinner. The vegetables are to 

 be grown, prepared and served 

 by our gardeners. Thus we shall 

 want many vegetables for the 

 dinner and many flowers for decora- 

 tion. We are going to make the 

 sweetpea the principle flower. 

 Will you help us by starting a gar- 

 den at home and by sending us many 

 sweetpeas and vegetables for the 

 dinner to be held about the tenth 

 of July? If you wish to help, send 

 your name and address telling what 

 you can give. Sweetpeas may be 

 obtained rather easily. Ask your 

 mother to help you. 



* * * 



We have been fortunate the past 

 few days in traveling with the South- 

 ern Pacific railroad and the Uni- 

 versity of California demonstration 

 train. There are ten cars in the 

 train and each car contains 

 an exhibit and men and women 

 to teach the people how to farm 

 and how to live better. At- each town 

 many people, including school chil- 

 dren pass through the train. One car 

 contains several hogs, another car- 

 ries chickens, ducks etc. One shows 

 cereals cf all kinds, another carries 

 an exhibit which teaches the people 

 not to use community drinking cup?, 

 common towels, etc. It also points 

 out the danger of the housefly, mos- 

 quito, tse tse fly, etc., to the public 

 health. The people are much inter- 

 ested and get a great deal of help 

 from the train. If you- have an 

 opportunity, be sure and visit it. 

 more about the work of the demon- 

 Next term we are going to tell you 

 stration train. 



* * * 



The gardeners should thank Mr. 

 C. Runckel, of Niles, for making it 

 possible to issue this little paper. 



Mission San Jose. 

 Mr. C. A. Steb'bins, 

 University of California,- 

 Berkeley, Cal., 



Dear Sir: — Today we har- 

 vested our third crop of radishes 

 a* our school experimental garden. 

 The "prize" radish was grown in the 

 plot cultivated by Marinna Sezario 

 and myself. We are sending it to 

 you for comparision with those 

 grown at other schools. 



We are raising twenty different 

 kinds of vegetables and fifteen kinds 

 of grain in our school plots and each 

 of the pupils have been given seeds 

 to take home. The home gardens 

 are as good as those at school. 



We have learned much about rais- 

 ing vegetables this year and are 

 able to show our parents how to 

 plant properly and how to save 

 money by growing many things for 

 the table. . Please come and visit 

 our school. 



Yours Respectfully, 

 DELPHINE FRATES. 



The "prize"radish is a wonder and 

 too good to eat. It hangs in our 

 office, labeled "The Best Radish 

 Grown by California Junior Garden- 

 ers." The Niles children have grown 

 some almost as large. Next term 

 each one will have to work hard, 

 for competition will be close. 



Thank you for the invitation to 

 visit you. We shall do so at the 

 first opportunity. 



* * * 

 Franklin School, E. Oakland, Cal. 



Professor Stebbins, 



Dear Sir: — We received "The 

 Junior Agriculturalist" a few days 

 ago and have found the articles in 

 them very interesting. 



The pupils of our class are experi- 

 menting in home gardening. Some 

 of us are growing vegetables while 

 others are raising flowers. We are 

 all doing our very best to make this 

 work a success, for it is very inter- 

 esting and a pleasure to be among 

 the plants and take care of them. 

 This subject is comparatively new 

 to most of us. Snap shots of ten of 

 the best of these gardens will be 

 taken by our teacher and if they 

 turn out well, we shall send you the 

 prints of them. We have not a 

 school garden but hope to have one 

 sometime in the future. 



Yours Respectfully, 



NELLIE MORRILL. 

 6 B. Grade 



