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Show BOYS AND GIRLS' GARDENS Youngsters Gain Valuable Knowledge From Tilling the Soil; Increase the Food Supply. Junior gardeners and members of the boys and girls' clubs have been important factors in increasing America's Amer-ica's food supply. In many cities this work has been joined with the school-garden school-garden movement. This kind of work not only produces more food but teaches the youngsters self-dependence and the value of work. Teachers have reported that the effort ef-fort with the boys and girls has been more than repaid by the knowledge of- Nature gained by the pupils. Both the bureau of education, through the i schools, and the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture, through the boys and girls' clubs, are giving official offi-cial help to the junior garden movement. |
