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The school children will receive about 15 cts.per hour, and will 

 work only half days twice per week. The half day will be divided 

 into three and one-half hours work and one-half hour lecture, with 

 four hours pay. The boys and girls will be kept in separate groups 

 under competent teachers. The teacher will give the talk and lead 

 the discussion. A small wooded park comprising five acres of the 

 farm furnishes an ideal lunch ground and place for the lectures. 

 The girls will can and preserve small fruits and vegetables for school 

 cafeterias, using home methods as much as possible. It is expected 

 to use a school Domestic Science room for this purpose which is 

 located across the street from the Central Garden. 



The boys, in addition to growing the produce, take it to the city 

 market and dispose of it both wholesale and retail. There is no 

 pleasure quite so alluring to the boys as the trip to market and 

 nothing contains more education. They are responsible for the 

 funds, for the profitable sale of the produce and for maintaining the 

 business relations of the school farm, as we are known on the 

 market, with the commission men and the public. 



Last summer's work demonstrated the boys can outsell most 

 men on the market. They are anxious, enthusiastic and pleasant. 

 They treat every one courteously and as a rule sell out a load in 

 short order. 



To leave a boy on the market, with a load of produce, giving him 

 all the responsibilities of a grown man will do more toward teaching 

 him reliance, self-confidence and the business end of acquiring a 

 livelihood, than any one piece of school work with which I have 

 ever come in contact. With a hope that we, the boys, teachers and 

 I, can make an actual profit in dollars on the central garden this 

 year, the work is being planned with every care. 



But first of all, everything must yield to education. The educa- 

 tional value is paramount and vital. The remuneration is second- 

 ary. The former is practically assured, and I confidently predict 

 that we shall win a fair share of the latter. 



NOTES FROM A HOME GARDEN SUPERVISOR 



Helen Seaman 

 Seattle, Washington 



It was the good fortune of being garden teachers that brought us 

 to Seattle last July, a city set in a wonder spot of beauty. To the 

 west is Puget Sound with its border of low-lying hiUs -foothills to 



