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ishes healthful, useful employment for a few hours each 

 week to boys and gMs who would otherwise be running the 

 streets. With a capable instructor in charge, such a school 

 garden may be very valuable as a field laboratory in con- 

 nection with the regular classroom work, and may also be 

 used to good advantage to furnish much material to be 

 used in the classroom during the winter. 



Where Not Needed. — School gardens have very little 

 place in connection with rural schools, consolidated schools, 

 or village schools where all of the pupils have gardens at 

 home and some useful employment during vacation. Under 

 such conditions the teacher or agricultural instructor can 

 do more good by encouraging home gardens and by aiding 

 the pupils in their garden work at home, than by attempting 

 to handle a school garden. 

 Arithmetic: 



1. What is a school garden? 



2. Name some of its advantages and disadvantages. 



3. Under what conditions are school gardens desirable? Where 

 undesirable? 



Arithmetic: ^ 



1. How much does it cost to plow ^ acre of land, if it takes a 

 man and 2 horses 1|^ hours to do it, assuming that a man's time is 

 worth 20c. per hour and one horse's time is worth 10c. per hour? 



2. How much does it coat to spade up 3^ acre of land, if it takes 

 a man 20 hours to do it, a man's time being worth 20c. per hour? 



3. If one can raise 600 bus. of onions per acre, how much can 

 one raise on 1 square rod? (There are 160 sq. rds. in an acre.) How 

 much would the onions be worth at 60c. per bushel? 



I COUNTY AGENTS. 



A New Movement. — During the past few years a really 

 new movement has been started known as the county agent 

 movement. This is a valuable form of community work. 

 It was started in the Southern part of the United States 

 when the cotton boll weevil first made its appearance and 

 threatened to destroy the whole cotton industry. The 

 cotton planters appealed to the United States Department 

 of Agriculture for assistance which was readily given. 

 Men were sent into several communities, and gave the best 

 assistance available in combating the pest. Their efforts 

 were fruitful, so much so that other communities asked 

 for the same help. 



