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Slips of paper for keeping the records will be furnished each grocery that 

 will keep records. 



If you will co-operate with us to the extent of arranging a place for your 

 son or daughter to grow tomatoes and in helping to follow out the instruction 

 "How to Grow Grand Pacific Tomatoes" please sign and return the lower 

 part of this paper. 



Very respectfully yours, 



J. K. vStabletox. 



Bloomington, III., April, 1914. 

 I will join with the schools in the tomato garden work by giving my son 

 or daughter a place for a garden and in trying to see that he or she follows out 

 the directions during the summer. 



Signed, 



After the dry, hot summer set in, I feared the opening of school 

 in September would find but small records of tomatoes grown, 

 notwithstanding our promising beginning; but the rains came 

 late in the season and many plants that had not fruited at all 

 during the hot summer produced fine fruit, while in gardens 

 where the plants were watered freely all the summer through, 

 the yeild was surprisingly large for so hot a summer. The extreme 

 heat blasted many buds, even where the plants had plenty of 

 water. 



The greatest weight vouched for as grown from any ten plants 

 is 123 lbs. 6 ozs. Had it been a good season this amount could 

 have been doubled. While many picked from their vines only 

 20 lbs., 30 lbs., 40 lbs., 50 lbs., or 70 lbs., there is a general feeling 

 the results more than justify the undertaking, and that with a 

 good season a remarkable showing would be made. 



To me the most valuable fact of it all is the deeply interested 

 contact these boys and girls have had with growing plants from 

 seed to fruitage. 



This fall we have planned to have a supply of blooming bulbs 

 for each school building all the latter part of the winter season. 

 Each fall the boys plant large beds of bulbs for early spring flowers. 

 Tulips are most extensively used, but hyacinths, narcissi, and other 

 bulbs form a part of the fall planting. This year we have made 

 a change. The boys have planted the tulips in the yards as usual, 

 and they have also prepared bulbs in pots for winter blooming. 

 Mr. Kern, our teacher of Agriculture, has had full charge of this 

 work, and has carefully directed the boys in all they^ have done. 



