AFTER PLANTING, WHAT? 



ways; that upon them he is to stand whenever 

 possible to do his work; and on them, not on his 

 neighbor's, he is to throw his weeds or stand his 

 weeding box or lay his tools. Children should be 

 made to take certain paths in coming and going. 

 A good rule is to follow the right hand path or 

 paths to the nearest main one. 



in making paths, the child should begin with 

 the gutter. With the point of the hoe draw a 

 deep groove directly under the garden line along 

 one side of the plot and then along the other, for 

 each child is to make but two paths. This gutter 

 should be from one to three inches deep, according 

 as the soil is dry and sandy or wet and clayey. 

 Having made the groove, the child will then, with 

 the back of his hoe, bank the edge of the bed at an 

 angle of about 50 degrees. Next, with his hoe, 

 he will draw the dirt up and away from the groove 

 until it becomes the middle of the little gutter. 

 The loose earth is drawn into the center of the 

 path, or upon its "crown." A good rule is to have 

 the center of the path a smooth, level, even sur- 

 face, equal in height to the center of the bed. 



Narrow paths may be hardened by having the 

 children tramp them down and pound them smooth 

 with the back of a hoe. Broader ones are 

 much better rolled hard. An improvised roller 

 can be made of a bit of drain pipe with a piece of 

 very tough, strong wood, or an iron bar for an 

 axle, held in place by a filling of stones and rub- 

 ble, through which cement has been poured. A 



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