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to give it proper attention. Careful, thoughtful work should be 
insisted upon rather than quantity. 
Demonstration plats for the supervision of the teacher should be 
set apart. These plats should be used to demonstrate certain truths 
with regard to individual crops. The farmers of the community 
should be encouraged to take an interest in this phase of the work 
for their own benefit. 
The preceding school-garden plan (fig. 8) should prove suggestive 
to the teacher in laying out grounds. 
SCHOOL EXHIBITS. 
Every school should have its fair or its exhibit day. There are 
many reasons for this. In the first place, such an enterprise is local 
Fig. 9.— Marion County, Tex., Girls' Club exhibit. 
in character, and it is possible for every pupil to participate. Look- 
ing forward to an exhibit of products and work will prove quite an 
incentive to the pupil to do his or her best in the garden, plat, or 
other work. The interest thus awakened among pupils will react on 
the community and attract its attention to the school. It will be 
necessary to offer prizes for the best exhibits, and in soliciting the 
articles for this purpose the attention of beneficent and enterprising 
people will be called to the progressive spirit of the school and its 
importance magnified. In turn, the recognition given the school by 
patrons and others will prove encouraging to the pupils and will be 
conducive to better results in their work. 
