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May, 19 16, though not slavishly followed, indicates the general 

 character of the work. The other teachers of gardening are 

 usually regular teachers in charge of a room and devoting after- 

 school and Saturday time to garden work in spring and fall and, 

 except one month's vacation, full time, through the summer, for 

 which they receive extra pay. They visit and instruct children at 

 their home gardens (of which there have been about 1 2,000 the past 

 season), as well as in school and in school gardens. Those having 

 gardens receive a grade on their report cards and buttons or other 

 badges if earned. The Board of Education has expended more 

 than $1 5,000 for the work during the year. Supervision of poultry 

 clubs is to be added the coming year and a substantial increase in 

 the budget has been allowed. 



The director conducts a course in connection with the Teachers' 

 College at the Univei-sity of Cincinnati, intended to qualify persons 

 for positions as teachers of gardening. 



Reports from about 11,000 of Cincinnati's "Junior War Garden 

 Volunteers," who wear the insignia of the U. S. School Garden 

 Army, show that on about 160 acres of school and home gardens 

 they raised during 191 8 nearly $40,000 worth of vegetables, which 

 is at the rate of $242 per acre. 



Fifteen hundred children, who gardened the past season in about 

 50 school gardens, having a total area of 37 acres, produced nearly 

 $9,500 worth of vegetables, or $256 worth per acre. Children 

 report from their home gardens, which had less close and constant 

 supervision from the teachers, an average production of $240 per 

 acre. There were 600 children in the "Market Garden Clubs" 

 who cultivated at least 1/20 acre apiece through the season (total 

 45 acres) and harvested $14,500 worth of vegetables, or $322 

 worth per acre. From the children's gardens at least 2,035 quarts 

 of vegetables were canned by them and 11,841 quarts by there 

 parents and others. 



The expense for plowing, fertilizer and seeds of the school gar- 

 dens was $2,220. Of this the Board of Education advanced $1,538 

 and the children have repaid to the Department so far about $675. 



Car tickets to the value of $226 were furnished by the Board and 

 other friends, to transport down-town children to suburban 

 gardens. Two hundred seventeen of these children have culti- 

 vated nearly 11 acres and produced more than $1600 worth of 

 vegetables. Including car tickets furnished but not the cost of 



