AFTER PLANTING, WHAT? 



f. Miscellaneous records, of trips by the children 

 to other schools, parks, experiment sta- 

 tions, and of any events worth registering. 



Summer work in the garden will include some 

 carpentry, such as repairing of tools and making 

 of apparatus. It should include some cooking.* 

 Even though there be 

 no opportunity for 

 house-wifery, a few 

 simple cooking lessons 

 can be given over an 

 oil stove in an impro- 

 vised and sheltered 

 corner kitchen; or 

 better, the cooking 

 can be done with one 

 of the steam cookers 

 that range in price 

 from $5.00 to $7.50. 

 This method demon- 

 strates economy in 

 fuel, as would also a 



Tireless cooker which is easily improvised. The cook- 

 ing could be done in connection with a guest day. A 

 vegetable dinner, a salad supper, or a "green tea*' 

 is a great drawing card to interest the children's 

 parents. In fact it is a good thing to have a 

 "parents' day" regularly and frequently with 

 either some such feature as just mentioned or 



♦ See Appendix A, Note 15. 

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Home-made Breeding Cage 



A large chimney standing in saucer or 

 flower pot or fitted into a block of wood, if 

 its top IS covered with netting, will serve. 



