IN VACATION AND TERM TIME 



school life from the kindergarten until and after 

 the children take up elementary agriculture. 



"The scope of our work expands with the age 

 of the pupils. . . . The upper-grade students 

 and students in the normal department make the 

 garden auxiliary to their science work. . . . 

 Few individual plots are assigned in the school 

 garden. We have arranged, however, to use for 



Sixth Grade Pupils Budding Peaches. Normal. Ill 



individual plots this season with the seventh, 

 eighth, ninth and tenth grade children a portion 

 of our university farm of 95 acres lying just 

 across the road from the school garden. The 

 land will be laid off in strips of 100 feet wide with 

 paths. The land in these strips will be rented to 

 the students at 2 cents per front foot ($8.70 per 

 acre). No pupil may rent more than one-fourth 



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