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PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE 



should be cultivated in the school garden, and also some 

 field crops, such as sugar-cane, rice, and tobacco. 



PREPARATION OF THE SOIL 



Clearing the Ground. Before work is begun on a 

 school garden, the entire garden should be marked off 



FIG. 41. Garden in the grounds of the Philippine Normal School, Manila 



with perfect regularity. Stakes at the corners of each 

 student's plot should be driven firmly into the ground. 

 All sticks and other rubbish on the ground, except herbs 

 soft enough to rot easily, should then be burned on the 

 plot ; and there is no objection to burning the herbs, too, 

 except that the nitrogen in them will then be lost. All 

 stones, even little ones, should be removed entirely from 

 the garden. 



