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Show u SCHOOL GARDENING. The school garden movement was not promoted so much for what few potatoes and beans the youngsters could raise on their little plots. It was more to train the children in industrious habits, and to interest them in processes pro-cesses of nature. But vegestables are regarded with wholesome respect now. The National Educational Association As-sociation plans to push school gardens harder this summer, sum-mer, as a resource in food production. Teachers are to secure permission to use vacant lots and back yards. If the schools everywhere would promote this movement, an increase could be made in the food supply. sup-ply. Speculators who are contriving to beat the last dollar out of the poor man, would reflect on all these little stocks stored away in a million cellars. The school gardens will be planted with boisterous enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. It always gives a youngster a thrill to do something some-thing like his father. He will feel like a grown man while he is digging his furrows and dropping in his seed. There will come a day when the weeds have grown very tall. The teacher is rusticating at rural retreats. A boy's will is the wind's will, and vacation days are full of pressing engagements. en-gagements. The swinmming hole has to be visited several sever-al times a day, and there are no end of birds nests to be inspected in-spected and back yard ball games to be played. Then there is the inappropriate fact that the garden was not laid out in the shade. If this vital consideration had not been overlookd, it would have been much more practical for Tommy to weed his plot. r Still the children's gardens have really raised a substantial sub-stantial amount of produce. Children are happier if they have some ragular task, but their gardens will amount to a great deal more if some competent person is given the job of regularly supervising them. Father 'can well af-ford af-ford to pay something for real veletables. |