UN 20 1912 * 



** University of California, College of AgricufiAUfSSBceley, California 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, E. J. Wickson, Director Agricultural Education 

 Entered as second-class matter. November. 1911. at the Postoffice at Berkeley. Cal. 



The Junior Agriculturist 



^-<\ LITTLE PAPER ISSUED TWICE A MONTH 

 FOR THE JUNIOR GARDENERS OF CALIFORNIA 



Vol. I. Berkeley. California. June 14, 1912 No. 18 



What Are You Going To Do for 1915 



In the Junior Call we wrote you about Johnnie, who had no right 



green apples because he made so many people unhappy. We told you 



that '«ne should care for a cold, since others might be made sick. A 



h boy or girl or selfish parents will not agree with us, for they 



think that they can do anything they please. There is some excuse for 



Y>u hoys and girls, but no excuse for parents and others for so much 



of self. Truly, the man or woman who thinks only of himself or 



If is not quite grown up. 



There are nearly 200 children who work in the Berkeley Garden 

 Each has an individual garden. Last week we walked through the 

 gardens. We found a few plats full of weeds. The presence of weeds 

 two stories: (1) That the o\rners of the weedy gardens are not 

 good workers, and (2) that they are selfish. They have no right to 

 ajlow the weeds to grow. One weed will grow thousands of seeds, each 

 of which will make a new weed. Thus because of one selfish boy or girl 

 all of the other children will have to do extra work to keep weeds from 

 their gardens. Not only does selfishness cause their neighbors extra 

 work, but a weedy, unsightly plat spoils the appearance of the whole 

 garden and makes visitors feel that we are all careless. How much 

 better if these selfish gardeners would serve the whole city by keeping 

 their plats clean and attractive. 



Such thoughtless gardeners we may excuse, yet not praise in our 

 Garden city, for the boys and girls are young, but we have no excuse 

 nor any praise for the selfish owner of a vacant lot overrun with weeds. 

 He or she furnishes a breeding place for the weeds, which later all of 

 the neighbors have to fight. The unsightly lot helps to- keep strangers 

 from locating in the city, for they feel that individuals who will not 

 treat their neighbors right will not vote right. Thus property adjoining 

 such a lot is of less value. Why do these individuals not grow up and 

 serve their city? 



In 1915 thousands and thousands of visitors are coming to Cali- 

 fornia. We want many of them to stay, and we want all of the others 

 to speak a good word for California when they return home. Let us all 

 our >tate by making the cities and the country beautiful. If each 

 city school would beautify and make useful one vacant lot, if the chil- 

 dren of each rural district would beautify their own schoolyard, grow 

 and plant trees along the country roads and see that fences and homes 

 were improved, what a great amount of service they might do. Think 

 about it. you 10,000 Juniors, talk about it, for we may ask you all to take 

 hold soon for California. 



