8 Gardening 
Bi 2 Ss s J 
North Dakota Agric. Expt. Sta. 
Fic. 6. The best place of all for a garden is on the farm. Here land is abun- 
dant, so the rows should be planted wide for horse-cultivation. The photo- 
graph shows a model farm garden of one third of an'acre in North Dakota. 
ther advantage of the community garden is that it gives 
the pupil training in codperative effort—practice in 
that “ team work ”’ which is so essential in a democracy. 
The school-supervised home garden is made at the home 
of the child under the supervision of a teacher; and for 
successful participation in the care of the home garden 
a pupil is given a certain amount of school credit. The 
garden is visited at intervals during the growing season 
by a supervisor who gives advice and instruction and 
judges the activity and interest of the pupil. Certain 
records are kept by the pupil, and these are correlated 
with the work done in the school. 
School supervision of home gardens is undoubtedly 
one of the best means of combining school and home 
,activities. It aims to promote and improve the home 
