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hcive been satisfied to gather momentum slowly, ever looking 

 forward to the embryo community. ^lany mothers have become 

 interested. Two brought in some forty children twice a week, 

 taking all responsibility upon themselves. 



An interested mother came to the gardens a short time ago 

 in search of fresh radishes. She discovered a young gardener 

 of tender years well laden and ready to market her products. 

 Terms were soon made and the little girl clutched eagerly 

 her five cent piece, the first ever earned. The following day 

 she demurely edged up to me and said. "Mr. Stebbins. may I 

 have another garden?" The little girl felt the economic pull 

 which we wish to utilize in this term's work. A market will 

 be established and we confidently expect each plot to average 

 at least $1.00 for its owner. With a bank under way, the plots 

 will be leased at a rental of 10% of the garden's output. Grad- 

 ually around the campus gardens we hope to build an embryo 

 city in which the children may grow mentally and physically 

 with the vegetables and the flowers. The campus gardens will 

 become our laboratory. Here we shall benefit by trial and error 

 until a system may be perfected which will be extended over this 

 whole state. 



With the gardens on the campus under way. the Univer- 

 sity Division in order to extend its usefulness offered to four 

 rural and two other city schools, seeds and teachers in return 

 for the sixth grade children. Members of an extension class, 

 composed of post graduates and upper division students of the 

 University, followed an instructor into these schools, teaching 

 agriculture one hour a week. In each instance the garden was 

 made the basis of the work. The division met the expenses 

 of these students. 



In this manner over 500 children were reached directly. 

 Desiring to increase the service of the division, the ''Junior 

 Agriculturist," a small paper, was published twice a month and 

 given free to the children. The "Junior" had a fourfold pur- 

 pose (1) to enable the department to reach more children, (2) 

 to review the lessons taught by members of the extension class, 

 thus acting as a live text, (3) to bind the whole movement to- 

 gether. (4) to act as a medium of expression for the children 

 and the teachers. The little paper has been an essential factor 

 in the past term's work. The mailing list has grown very 

 rapidly. 



Building from the experiences of the last few months and 



