GARDEN TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS 47 



Grass hooks and lawn mowers may be owned in either 

 of these ways. 



Fencing for the school garden is usually necessary, for 

 obvious reasons. Some good form of woven wire has been 

 found to be most popular. It is neat and pleasing and may be 

 selected of suitable height and mesh to keep out all farm 

 animals. It is much cheaper and more durable than fence 

 boards. Posts should be set about two feet into the ground 

 and high enough to extend about four inches above the woven 

 wire. A single line of barbed wire is then stapled at a uni- 

 form height above the top of the woven wire and on the 

 opposite side of the posts. This makes the fence harder to 

 climb over. The posts may be of cedar, chestnut, oak, or other 

 durable wood. These should be peeled or stripped of their 

 bark and then painted with coal (gas) tar all over before 

 being set in place. This makes them last fully twice as long. 

 The posts may be sawed to a uniform height after the wire 

 is on, and the top six inches painted with white, red or green 

 to help offset the black color of the tar paint. 



Hotbeds and coldframes are described in Chapter V. 



TOOL HOUSE 



A place to keep the garden tools should be provided in 

 some way. In small schools this is. usually a locker or cup- 

 board of suitable size ; in some cases, a tool box is made long 

 enough for rakes and hoes. The cover is slanting to shed off 

 rain, and a lock is provided. 



In larger schools a small house is used for tools, seeds, 

 fertilizers and other supplies. In such a house or room there 

 should be an assigned place for everything. A card is placed 

 to indicate the location of each kind of tool. 



This room may have in it any or all of the tools and 

 articles of equipment already mentioned, and also some of the 

 following things, if the work of the school requires them : 



