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cerned. A direct application can be readily given. Milwaukee, as 

 a large city, supports much truck gardening. At present a course in 

 vegetable gardening is given at the school. The boys in the course 

 are each given a plot 20x25 feet. This they must take care of till the 

 end of the school year. The gardens are so arranged that after the 

 pupils leave they can be cultivated with a cultivator. Would not the 

 boys learn more about vegetables and more about large scale gardening, 

 marketing of products, financial considerations, market needs and de- 

 mands, etc., if they were required to put a little more time each day on 

 a larger plot, not in individual parts, but worked in one large garden un- 

 der the direction of the instructor? If the garden were then considered 

 as a commercial proposition and the boys felt that they were part of the 

 scheme and must make it pay, they would have a better training. 



It has been argued that the best boys will not work more than is nec- 

 essary for demonstration purposes, and that the boys who will are not 

 the kind who are wanted to work on the farm. The answer to this is 

 that the fault lies with the teacher and not with the boys. Boys were 

 observed doing manual labor under the direction of a teacher and they 

 seemed eager and glad to do it. Another discouraged the attempts of 

 the pupils to do more. A teacher can inspire the boys with a liking 

 for and interest in the work. Most boys have a natural interest in gar- 

 den work, especially those who go to an agricultural school. If the 

 boys are really interested in their work, if they want to know agricul- 

 ture, they will not object to a little farm work. 



In the dairy the boys do some of the work, but it is just while they 

 are taking a certain dairy course. Here no saving is affected because 

 most of the boys are inexperienced and they must be helped. When 

 the students were left alone for a week, milk production fell greatly. 

 This should not be true of older students. Why can not part of their 

 work be to assist and direct the others? The boys who work in the 

 dairy regularly are paid by the school. 



This is an important question in agricultural education. If boys 

 can be taught agriculture better by being placed in touch with and tak- 

 ing part in actual farm problems, there seems to be no reason why they 

 should not be so taught. The system would be cheaper for the tax- 

 payers, for the farm could be made to pay a part of the operating ex- 

 penses of the school. It cannot be said without trial that such a system 

 will not work in the Milwaukee school. It has never been tried. Only 

 the most feeble attempts, under unfavorable conditions have been made. 

 A strong attempt with a determination to use every possible resource is 

 necessary to work out a plan that will succeed. That an effort be made is 

 a just demand- To permit the farm to work at less than its maximum 

 production is an economic waste which is unjustifiable unless it is defi- 



