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larger part being divided Into two hundred 

 individual plots, varying in size from four by 

 six feet for the pickaninnies of the kindergarten, 

 to eleven by fifteen feet for the okiest boys 

 and girls. Each plot is owned, for the time 

 being, by two children, who enter into partner- 

 ship and share equally in the work as well as in 

 the profits of the garden — spading, raking, 

 planting, hoeing, harvesting with their own 

 hands, and using the products in their own 

 homes or selling them to their neighbors. The 

 young farmers are not given airtd blanche^ 

 however, In regard to the kind of crops they 

 shall raise or the position of them in the beds. 

 The supervision of the work is In the hands of 

 one person — the director of the agricultural 

 department of the Institute — who decides what 

 vegetables and flowers shall be planted and how 

 they shall be arranged. This plan serves to 

 give symmetry and order to the garden as a 

 whole, and adds materially to the educative 

 value of the work. Most of the plants selected 

 are such as are easily cultivated and such as 



