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Show SCHOOL GARDENS RUN BY UNCLE SAM Boy With the Hoe Will Bo in Evidence Evi-dence in Government's Thirty Gardens. ST. LOUIS, April 30. The man with the hoe has had his day and the United Unit-ed States Government, through Its bureau bu-reau of plant Industry, has started out tho boy with the hoe. Every day at the World's fair bare-armed, sunburned sun-burned little gardeners may be seen ' working In the thirty Government school gardens, established aa object lessons for the public. Theso llttlo farmers and gardeners are teaching older heads and older hands how to plant and sow, how to use tho spade and hoe. Their busy little hands, guided guid-ed by trained minds, do garden and farm work scientifically. The antiquated anti-quated methods of tilling the soil are not countenanced by theso hardy youngsters. They are learning the science of gardening and farming, and the boy with the hoe has become the teacher of men. For many years Germany, France, Sweden and other European countries havo made a feature of school gardening, garden-ing, und so upparent have been the benefits of this work that more than .200,000 European schools now maintain school gardens. The United States Government has had experts studying this phase of practical education, and Is making an extensive exhibit at the World's fair, showing thirty model school gardens and giving a practical demonstration of this movement. This work is dono under the Immediate supervision su-pervision of tho United States bureau of plant industry, a part of the Department De-partment of Agriculture, and is under tho supervision of Prof. C. F. Wheeler, Government export In chargo of economic eco-nomic gardens. The thirty model gardens are being worked by pupils selected by tho Clvlo league of St. Louis, and are under the direction of Prof. H. D. 'Hemenway, dlrootor of the School of Horticulture of Harvard, Conn. ThcBe ambitious young gardonera aro striving to eur-paca eur-paca ono anothor in nature's work, und this cannot full to materially etlmulato Interest ln gardening as part of school tralnlnj;. Tho Government has a 400-acre farm at Arlington, Va.. tho former home of Oon. Leo, which Ifi dovotod to plant Industry. In-dustry. In tlilo big model farm, gar- dun and orohard and all kinds of plnnt llfo lo Btudlod scientifically, and now the Government Is embracing the opportunity op-portunity offorod by tho World's fair to give tho public a series of object lessons les-sons ln nature study and teach the fundamental principles of agriculture ln the common schools. Manual training schools have been tried for years with excellent results. The school garden bears the same relationship to agriculture agricul-ture that manual training does to mechanism. It teaches farming, gardening gar-dening and plant culture practically anil theoretically, and to tho other school branches it adds a department of agriculture agri-culture and teaches scientific farming. This Is the first great outdoor exhibit ex-hibit ever made by the Government I T II ifl if 1 'fl m II .1 i H Ifl 1 'fl |