AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



Courtesy is pretty sure to be remembered and to 

 bear interest. 



In our western states much has been done to 

 improve rural school conditions. Many counties 

 and normal schools publish bulletins, some of 

 them free, others at slight cost, most of which are 

 very helpful. In the west and south the famous 



School Garden, State Normal School, Kearney, Nebraska 



corn contests are carried on among clubs of farmers' 

 boys.* In Nebraska, some 2200 boys have en- 

 gaged in growing seed corn in prize competition. 

 One state oflfered a two weeks' trip to Washing- 

 ton, D. C, to the boy who won first prize, and 



* An interesting account of the work of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 among farmer boys of the south, will be found in The Outlook, Feb. 

 5,1910, pp. 279-280. 



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