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Data for Reports. 



1. Cost of house. 



2. Cost of repairs. 



3. Number of hens. 



4. Cost of hens. 



5. Number of eggs gathered. 



6. Number broken in nest. 



7. Value of eggs gathered. 



8. Value of feeds bought. 



9. Value of table scraps and other feeds. 



10. Value of labor at 10 cents an hour. 



11. Other expenses. 



12. Value of hens, house and fixtures at close, 



13. Total outlay. 



14. Total income, including hens, house and fixtures. 



15. Net profit. 



Conclusion. 

 In closing this report it seems appropriate to insert the 

 following extract from the Teacher's Instruction Sheet in 

 Ontario, Canada: — 



Educational Aims in Gardening. — Many claims are made for the 

 service of gardening in educating children. If they are just (and teachers 

 may test them for themselves) it is the duty of every one to help in bring- 

 ing about a larger use of the subject. The claims are that it has important 

 intellectual, social, industrial, moral and sesthetic values, such as: — 



1. That it vivifies school work, stimulating all branches of study. 



2. That it gives the subject of nature study a definite foundation, 

 furnishing the problems or tasks through wliich children may be trained 

 "to do something in order to find out something." 



3. That it teaches respect for labor, showing as it does the importance 

 of the work of producing plants and the skill required in this fundamental 

 human employment. 



4. That it brings the interests of the home and school into sympathetic 

 relationships, correcting the fault "that the boy Uves in one world and 

 goes to school in another." 



5. That it tends to correct modern pleasure-seeking tendencies, devel- 

 oping interests that furnish means of wholesome pleasures within ourselves. 



6. That it exerts a wholesome social influence in leading to larger uses 

 of fresh vegetables and a better standard of Uving. 



7. That it brings the school into sjanpathetic association with our 

 fundamental industry, — agriculture, — and furnishes a simple recrea- 

 tive manual training in handling garden tools, etc. 



