COST OF EQUIPMENT 



September, and from 8 to 12.30 during July and 

 August, for I240 per season. Another city pays 

 each principal |i8 for a period (i. e. three hours' 

 work) for five days each week during the season, 

 and the assistants $12. in several cities, where 

 few hours are required, a rate of 75 cents per 

 hour is paid or from $2.25 to I4.00 per day. 

 Assistant teachers for all-day work average I65 

 and I75 per month. 



"The assistant teacher, as a rule, is needed only 

 in the afternoons and on Saturdays during spring 

 and fall when the children attend only after school 

 hours; but during the vacation period, she may 

 be needed for half the day or the entire day, ac- 

 cording to the custom of keeping the garden 

 open."* 



Evidently the matter of salary is a local one, 

 which each community must adjust to its own 

 needs or purse. Similarly, the question of a 

 gardener or laborer is local; undoubtedly there 

 should be one or the other in every large garden. 



"Trained teachers are more valuable than 

 agriculturists without knowledge of pedagogical 

 methods. Teachers not versed in agriculture may 

 be supplemented by a gardener; if, however, 

 teachers do understand gardening, a laborer may 

 lake the gardener's place. This man occupies 



♦ An ideal ratio of assistants to children would be one for every 

 seven or at most ten. Twenty or 25 children is the utmost that 

 should be in any one class or division. England forbids her teachers 

 in gardening to have more than 14 children in a class. 

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