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University of California, College of Agriculture, Berkeley, CalifirrUtfYJ VEhit 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, E. J. Wickson, Director X^eu 



The Junior Agriculturist 



^A LITTLE PAPER ISSUED TWICE A MONTH 

 FOR THE JUNIOR GARDENERS OF CALIFORNIA 



Vol. 1. 



Berkeley, California. October L6, r.ui 



No. 7 



Commuuications should be sent to 



C. A. STEBBINS. Editor 



Agricultural Education Division 



A Patriotic Garden 



kai.I'H L. BA1LJB1 . 



Tweattett Btreet Seawefli Lea \n-.i.- 



it the 20tn of April I spaded up 

 irden and a few days later got it 

 ready to plant seed and worked out my 

 design, when my garden is finished I 

 shall ' s^e star outlined in white 



Mowers and tilled in in blue with a 

 large flower in the center. Bel 



Intl I will have first red, then 



white, then blue twice Prom the large 

 to each of the points of the star 

 I will extend strings and have red, 

 white and blue running up tnene strings. 

 Wallace Gray, whose paper you will 

 And in the bunch, and 1 have a garden 

 er ami lu- expects tc make a 

 ■mall star and a crescent. 



are trying; t<» make a beautiful 



n of th»wers and by working to- 



DOt help but succeed. 



I have been reading some of the let- 



n this subject and am very much 



interested. 



First Hints 



\ i.iti: BR* K90VT, 

 rwewtftetl Mrt-ti n,|,,h»I, Lea Anaele* 

 first thing you do, if It is not 

 good soil and hasn't been 

 of, is to soak the ground well 

 with water and get it ready for spad- 

 ing. When you have it soak*, 

 good, take a spade and spade the whole 

 plot, Th.-n spray it thoroughly 

 ;md when you are ready to n 



n mark it off. If you have any 

 fertilizer handy you could put it on 

 your garden and spade it under, 

 you are ready to put your seeds In, 

 ght and even grooves about 

 half an inch deep. ng to the 



seed you intend planting. 



A School Garden 



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I"«nli«lli Mr.c| s,.|,„„l. I os \n K rlr» 



Our garden has a path going through 

 .id.Ue of it. tias a 



In part of the garden to plant 

 take care of. We were golnu to 

 ■ lawn in part of the gardei 

 couldn't, so it was divided Into 

 and given t.. the eighth grade to • 

 • • of the pupils have borooi 

 flowers around their garden and some 

 have figures made in flowers. 



The kindergarten has Its plot fixed 

 up like a farm. At one end it has a 

 little house with walks and I 

 around it and a barn behind it. 

 i hen it has the vegetables at one 



All through the garden there are 

 walks dividing it into plots. 



v\ vi n;i{ <.i in itii. 

 Twentieth stveel BeaaeL Lea interim 



Inst. I would like to till you about 

 one of the foes of man and ho 

 destroy it. The dlabrotlca is a I 

 Which is sometimes m for a 



ladybird. It is a great I 

 den, feeding on 

 Another hi etle whi< 



times mistaken for a ladybird I 

 striped he. -tic wi Icta Is fo 

 and tomato vines. It is some 

 called the squash bupr. The only 



I Is to pick them off 

 by hand, or go out early 

 ings with a can containing a little 

 oil and shake them off the vine- 



! BOB I \n I 'in. 

 TvpeatlaU i ts s a l |el ■ <>« 4a«afai 



Our garden has been a success be- 

 cause of the work we children and 

 teachers have put Into i rat had 



the ground and harrowed. The 



pupils then leveled it off and bu: 

 the paths In the center high' 

 off tl The ground was 



divided off and so much was glv 

 each room. We sowed all t) 

 it in grass, but the grass did not 

 It took too much tlm*> to 

 it grow well, so th*» lawn was dug up 

 and all the ground given to our room 

 We are t >iths and therefore 



should hav md I think 



we will. We have ne.i thin*? 



planted In our garden that yo | 

 think of and hope some time to see you. 



