April 21, 1916. 
PARENT-TEACHER MEETING 
Supt. oF SCHOOLS FARLEY OF BROCK- 
TON ‘TALKED ON SCHOOL GARDENS 
AT Prick SCHOOL, MANCHESTER 
Supt. of Schools George F. Farley, 
of Brockton addressed the best at- 
tended gathering of the Manchester 
Parent-Teacher association 1m some 
time in the Price school hal last even- 
ing. His subject, a most timely one, 
was “School and Home Gardens.” 
He told the history of the develop- 
ment of the school and home gardens 
feeerockton.* Mr. Farley’s interest 
in that branch of his work 1s undoubt- 
edly keen and he enthused when he 
told of the success of the contests 
held in his city. 
Last year in Brockton there were 
2800 successful gardens conducted by 
school children on funds of $1300, a 
small part of which is a volunteer 
contribution by citizens and the bal- 
“ance an appropriation by the city. 
The part contributed by citizens is 
used for prizes. Beginning about 
five years ago with a volunteer con- 
tribution of $25 the work has grown 
until at the present time Mr. Farley 
hopes to see 4000 gardens in opera- 
tion the coming summer. 
So great has the interest in the con- 
tests been that some of the “hard- 
headed” business men in Brockton 
have made handsome contributions to 
the work in the form of prizes. One 
merchant gruffly declined, a_ short 
time ago, to donate any money to- 
ward seeds or fertilizer, but has of- 
fered a scholarship of $150 to the 
student in high school making the 
best showing in the contest. Mr. 
Farley is in favor of the awarding of 
prizes. No large amount is given in 
any case except where special prizes 
are offered, but every child gets 
something. Mr. Farley told special 
instances of the benefits that have 
come to the participants in the con- 
tests. Many of the boys make a big 
summer profit out of their work on 
their gardens, one of them recently 
making as high as $250 clear for the 
summer. 
One novel departure has been the 
raising of pigs on lots outside the city. 
The pigs are bought in the spring and 
sold to the boys at $4.50 apiece and 
in the fall they sell them for a good 
profit. A city bank has set aside a 
fund of $1000 which the boys may 
draw on to get money to buy seed or 
to rent land. Their notes are taken 
without any security and in the fall, 
in every case, the boys have paid 
back the money with interest. One 
youngster recently sold a pig in the 
fall for $165. An Italian boy, whose 
father was going to take him out otf 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
BASEBALL 
MANCHESTER: STARTS BaLL SEASON 
Wirth A CLEAN VICTORY. 
The Manchester High school base- 
ball season started most auspiciously 
Wednesday with a clean-cut victory 
over the much larger school at Mar- 
blehead, the score being 12 to 8. It 
took 11 innings to turn the trick, but 
the Manchester boys were there with 
the punch, even if the score was 
8 to I against them when they came 
to the bat in the seventh frame. 
When Marblehead retired in the 
ninth, with the score all bottled, 8 to 4, 
there was little hope for the Man- 
chesterites. But Marbleheaders cao 
not know of the spirit of the boys 
from the town by-the-Sea. 
Gordon Crafts, who pitched a fine 
game throughout, started the rally in 
the gth. He bunted safely, and Billy 
Francis got away with the same play, 
Crafts advancing to 3d. Beaton 
singled, scoring Crafts, Walsh singled, 
scoring Francis. White’s sacrifice 
sent Beaton home. Walsh got home 
for a fourth run, on a passed ball, 
thus tieing the score. 
Nobody scored in the 1oth, and in 
the 11th the Marblehead boys were 
retired without a run, but Manchester 
pulled off four more tallies. Beaton 
was passed. Walsh doubled. Miguel’s 
double a little later scored Walsh and 
White. D. Height singled, sending 
in Peabody and Miguel,—with the 
score 12 to 8 in Manchester’s favor. 
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school at the 8th grade because he 
could not afford to keep him there 
longer, solved the economic problein 
by hiring a piece of land and with the 
aid of other boys whom he paid to 
work for him cleaned up a big profit. 
He is now in high school and has 
money in the bank toward his college 
expenses. 
Mr. Farley says that one Brockton 
boy raised the best potatoes in the 
State of Massachusetts the second 
year he had a garden and was award- 
ed a prize for the best garden in the 
state. This boy cleaned up at the 
rate of $1200 an acre. Speaking of 
the benefits of the school gardens 
Mr. Farley said that they have solved 
the economic problem of many a fam- 
ily. The children are taught modern 
methods of canning and many a fam- 
ily has well stocked shelves for the 
winter because of the industry of a 
school gardener. , It is also having a 
tendency to send many families into 
the country. The herding of people 
in the cities is one of the reasons for 
the increased cost of living, Mr. Far- 
ley said. “God made the country,” he 
said. ‘Man made the city and the 
Devil the long vacation.” The school 
garden contest has solved the problem 
of what to do with the city boy’s 
time. Products of the gardens are 
exhibited at the Brockton Fair and 
surpass those of farmers in many 
cases. 
The gardening is not a part of the 
required school work and will not be 
made such. “It is just fun,” said Mr. 
Farley. “If it was made a part of 
the school work somebody would be 
harnessing it up with a lot of Latin 
names and then—good-bye gardens.” 
Mr. Farley said although Manchester 
was not confronted with the problem 
of the character of population that 
Brockton had been, he thought it 
should benefit from school and gar- 
den work. 
Following the talk by Mr. Farley 
refreshments were served by the so- 
cial committee. Mrs. Stephen Hoare 
gave a pleasing vocal solo. 
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