AGRICULTURE FOR SOUTHERN" SCHOOLS. 17 
VEGETABLE GARDENING. 
(35 lessons. Projects.) 
References. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 255, The Home Vegetable Garden; 
647, The Home Garden in the South. Articles in the following Yearbooks: 1900, 
Development of Trucking Interests; 1907, Truck Farming in Atlantic Coast States. 
Lesson 1. — Types of Vegetable Gardening. 
1. The home vegetable garden. 
2. Market gardening. 
3. Truck farming. 
4. Seed growing. 
Lesson 2. — Factors Which Influence the Growing of Vegetables. 
1. Relation to general farming. 
2. Climate and weather conditions. 
3. Accessibility to markets and transportation facilities. 
4. The personal factor. 
Lesson 3. — Soils and Their Treatment. 
1. Types of soils best suited for vegetables. 
2. Improvement of heavy soils. 
3. Improvement of light soils. 
4. Preventing erosion. 
Lesson 4. — Barnyard and Green Manures. 
1. Value of organic matter. 
2. Care and use of barnyard manure. 
3. Management of green-manuring crops. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 192, Barnyard Manure; 
278, Leguminous Crops for Green Manuring. 
Lesson 5. — Commercial Fertilizers . 
1. Conditions making use essential and profitable. 
2. Buying and mixing of fertilizers. 
Lesson 6. — Garden Tools and Implements. 
1. Tools for preparation. 
2. Hand tillage tools. 
3. Horse-drawn tillage implements. 
4. Planting machines. 
5. Harvesting machines. 
6. The tool house — care of implements. 
Illustrative material. — Implement catalogues. Visit to implement dealer if 
possible. 
Lesson 7. — Seeds. 
1. Importance of good seed. 
2. Viability in relation to age. 
3. Germination temperature in relation to time of planting. 
4. Testing seeds. 
Illustrative material. — Seed catalogues, samples of garden seed. 
Lesson 8. — Seed Growing and Buying. 
1. Home-grown seed. 
2. Specialized seed growing. 
3. Buying seed. 
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