20 Gardening 
U.S. Bureau of Education 
Fic. 17. Gardening gives healthful exercise. Such exercise is especially bene- 
ficial to school children, who must spend much of the day indoors. This garden 
is in Los Angeles. 
children. If these are furnished in insufficient amounts, 
the teeth are soft and the enamel covering is defective. 
It will always be cheaper for many families to raise 
their own vegetables. Often idle land and idle hands 
can be used to grow them. There is no expense for 
hauling and shipping, and buying and selling, when 
vegetables come direct from the garden to the table. 
In this way all loss in shipping is avoided also, and often 
the vegetables are in much better condition for use. 
Experience shows that those families that have their 
own gardens use vegetables freely. Many other families 
suffer in health for lack of fresh vegetables. It is es- 
pecially important that those who are not able to buy 
vegetables in abundance should raise them for them- 
selves. 
