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in the use of the saw and the hammer. Their ingenuity is brought 

 into play as the figure shows in which the simple addition of a broom 

 handle lightens the work of sifting the soil and filling the flats. 

 Every article mentioned is valuable for the home garden and to the 

 mind of the writer of more practical service than the tabret, shoe 

 box, picture frame, or unlaid inkwell stand suggested in some 

 courses of study. 



Work Together 



Too few fathers spend sufficient time in fellowship and camara- 

 derie with their sons. Any movement that will bring father and 

 son together with common interests, working out the same or 

 similar problems, will contribute a great service to civilization. 

 The garden movement, growing out of the highly accentuated 

 necessity for increased production of food stuffs, will help to solve 

 this problem. Parent and child working together in the garden 

 will together have their minds opened to the great fundamental 

 problem of food production and conservation and its bearing upon 

 civilization and the destinies of nations, and, what is more import- 

 ant, they will come to know each other better. — School Life. 



Tickle the earth with a spade and she will laugh back at you 

 with a joyous crop. 



