then to an impulse that would in desperation reverse the process 

 when it is seen that Peter also is starving. It is very hard to 

 adhere to a well-balanced and self-consistent policy of mainte- 

 nance when confronted by insufficient means at every turn, but 

 it is even more important under these circumstances than when 

 no part of the work is in serious danger of starvation. 



As a help toward a consistent and well-balanced distribution 

 of maintenance funds we would urge a deliberate classification 

 of the Garden lands for maintenance purposes, along the lines 

 of our rough preliminary classification but much more carefully 

 studied, and a correspondingly deliberate and systematic appor- 

 tionment of the available resources for maintenance to the several 

 classes of lands. The emphasis, of course, should not be upon a 

 meticulously detailed cost-accounting and rigid adherence to 

 budget allotments. Emergencies frequently arise which require 

 shifts, as when infections arise that need to be promptly sup- 

 pressed at the cost of almost any postponement of routine work. 

 And it is proper here to point out, as a parenthesis, that we have 

 observed in the Garden some such infections, notably of scales, 

 which no well-conducted commercial establishment would have 

 permitted to go as far as they have gone. If the infected plants 

 could not have been cured with the means available, they would 

 have been destroyed and burned. 



The emphasis in the maintenance budgeting should rather be 

 upon a general continuity of policy in treating each parcel of 

 land year after year with about the same degree of economy in 

 relation to other parcels, unless and until convincing reasons 

 appear for deliberately changing its classification. 



But in addition to this general classification, we strongly 

 advise the deliberate selection within each class of lands of one 

 or more preferential areas, no matter how small, which shall be 

 kept up thoroughly well as samples of what would be done 

 throughout all the areas of that class if funds permitted, leaving 

 the rest of the lands in that class to be kept up only as well as 

 the funds permit after taking care of these small samples 

 perfectly. 



The reasons for such a policy are two-fold. In the first place, 

 it will show the public what can be done with adequate mainte- 

 nance funds; and by the very sharpness of the contrast between 

 these samples of first-rate maintenance in each class and the con- 

 ditions which poverty enforces elsewhere in that class of lands, 

 will stimulate increased financial support. In the second place, 

 it will be of great value in building up and maintaining the ideals 

 of the maintenance force itself. Where, because of poverty, 



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