Show SCHOOL CHILDREN GARDEN WORK BULLETIN ISSUED the department of agriculture will soon issue an interesting publication entitled some types of childrens gar garden den work in the public schools of the larger cities from pittsburg to the pacific coast the abo bulletin is number office of experiment stations the introduction says school garden work has become so general within the the file years and literature relative to the same so abundant that facts of the nature furnished in earlier reports would be superfluous super flous viz what to plant the distance apart of the rows ros and of the seeds in the rows rolls and like detailed information teachers need now to view the garden from a higher plane its relation to dally daily living its ita effect upon character development elop ment its place in the curriculum and its relation to other subjects in the course of study therefore in making this report such facts have taken a more prominent place than the ones one that may be ob tallied from textbooks the individual plant system and the young gardner owner of all he laldee laisee la is the system la in vogue east of tho the west of the hock k les almost invariably the coni commercial irel i side holds a place of importance equal with tho the cultivation but the products are sold bold tor for the benefit of the school children are taught busin business methods through the sale tho the system of teaching agriculture used la always based on oil the local practice and Is one that children can follow intelligently but the products are always the property of tho the school nowhere la is there systematized gaiden instruction in III the city barden schools in a majority of places it Is still a matter of flici choice tto with tho the principals until the necos necessity sity of 0 a specialized instructor to la felt the work will not be systematized the educational value alue of garden instruct loll ion is too gnat to allow it to be a mutter matter of choice with tile the teachers aecus to be a fear among allione educators in III official positions tlona of burdening kachera Kac tea heia cheis and the course of 0 study with new subjects As our nieth methods of tiling improve tile the demand comes to the schools for practical methods metho ds dealing with the tha question of right living it Is of 0 oui antiquated methods and subjects by systematized science that will teach people how to live more wholesome lives |