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Children's Gardening are conferred upon the satisfactory com- 

 pletion of this course. Twenty-two certificates were conferred in 

 December, 191 7." 



The next paper was read by Miss Hester M. Rusk, the subject 

 of her address being "The Woman's Agricultural Camp at Bed- 

 ford, N. Y." Miss Rusk gave an account of her experience as a 

 farm laborer at this camp. Among the topics discussed were: 

 the nature of the work done by the woman laborer, the system 

 of employment, the attitude of the employers, the attitude of the 

 people of the community, the attitude of the other employees, 

 the general effect on the health of the women employed. Dis- 

 cussion of the paper followed. Miss Delia Marble spoke in high 

 praise of the character of the work done by these women, stating 

 that the employers as a whole looked upon the enterprise with 

 considerable favor. 



Mr. Carl Bannwart followed with a paper on "Vacant Lot 

 Gardening in Newark, N. J." His lecture was illustrated with 

 charts showing the number of acres of vacant land within the 

 city suitable for gardening and the number of acres actually 

 under cultivation in 1915, 1916 and 1917. There were approxi- 

 mately 550 acres of land suitable for gardening, of which 10 acres 

 were cultivated in 1915, 22 acres in 1916, and 193 acres in 1917. 

 The produced crop values were $4,200 in 1915, $10,600 in 1916, 

 and $144,572.88 in 191 7. The diagrams shown and summary of 

 the facts presented in this lecture were published in the Newark 

 Evening News, Wednesday, December 12, 1917. 



A general discussion of the papeis given during the evening 

 followed. 



Meeting adjourned. B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 



