COST OF EQUIPMENT 



The same amount, of which the Canadian govern- 

 ment grants |20, is estimated to cover the running 

 expenses of one (and probably most) of the 

 Macdonald school gardens, having 126 individual 

 plots, 5 X 10 feet, where the principal of the 

 school and the regular teachers conduct the garden 

 work.* Here in the summer, a janitor or laborer 

 has general charge of the garden in connection 

 with his other duties, in South Dakota an 

 estimate of $40 per year, exclusive of salary, is 

 given for a garden where work is done on from 

 35 to 40 group plots of 10 X 20 feet each. Texas, 

 for gardens of from one to two acres in connection 

 with some of her rural schools, figures the annual 

 cost of maintenance at from $10 to $25. Some 

 other estimates, such as one from New Jersey, 

 figure the cost per plot as 30 cents per season and 

 its return as 60 cents. At this rate 350 plots in 

 a half acre lot would make the garden total 

 I105 for the season. Another garden in the same 

 state figures its running expenses for 38 class plots 

 as $5.00 each per season, while an Indiana esti- 

 mate was $1.00 per plot having six square feet. 

 A Connecticut town supports a garden 45 x 80 

 feet, under volunteer teachers, for I30 per year, 

 giving 20 boys beds large enough to return crops 

 of approximately I4.00 each in value. Stockton, 

 California, in a garden 60 x 150 feet with beds 

 3x12 feet for children of the first, second and 



♦ Fertilizer provided by College of Agriculture. Many of the seeds 

 are grown by the children. 



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