AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



Including every expense of the garden and al- 

 lowing for five hundred individual plots, lo x i6 

 feet, together with a fair number of sample plots, 

 on a tract of three and one-half acres, one of the 

 finest gardens in the country asks from the friends 

 who support it $5.00 per child per season of five 

 months and estimates that the crop from each 

 garden will return $5.00 or more to each gardener 

 in vegetables alone. This garden is in New York 

 state and its staff consists of a superintendent, 

 two assistant teachers, a laborer and two assist- 

 ants whose duty it is to give out the daily record 

 books to the children, sometimes tools, such 

 seeds as they may need, to keep the attendance, 

 and sundry like duties. The National Cash 

 Register Company when its boys' beds were 10 

 X 170 feet (now they are 10 x 100) figured that for 

 70 boys the expenses of keeping the land in order, 

 hiring a gardener and making some display of 

 flowers apart from the children's beds was I3500 

 a year. 



A number of the estimates that follow are for 

 gardens already established and used during the 

 spring term of the school year and for perhaps 

 several weeks in the fall. They do not include 

 the initial cost of tools, or even fertilizer.* Toledo, 

 Ohio, aside from the question of salary, figures that 

 a school garden of one acre in extent with 300 indi- 

 vidual plots (2x5 feet or 5 X 6 feet) can be run 

 for six months each year at an annual cost of I25. 



* Government seeds may be used in some cases. 

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