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Show ilEi ARE GIVEN FML INSPECT! i I 1 A final inspection of Ogden school war gardens Is now under way. Those acting as judges are J. W. Wintle, principal of the Lewis junior high school, Mrs. G, H. Matson of the Woman's Wom-an's Civic league, A, T. Barret of the Ogden high school, and A. E. Back-man, Back-man, garden supervisor. Mrs. James P Burton is greatly facilitating the judging by furnishing a car and taking tak-ing the judges to the various gardens to be Inspected. Yesterday afternoon, about half of the gardens were judged some excellent gardens being visited. Tomorrow the rest of the gardens will be judged and prize winners announced an-nounced later. I The judging Is based principally upon the score made by the gardens during the entire summer and those i given a final visit are those having made the highest score in each district. dis-trict. At present some of the gardens are partially used up and of course do I not show up as' they did before many I vegetables were used, soit would not do justice to the garden worker to judge on present appearances entirely. t However, .present.conditlon of gardens j is a partial index to the care given , tho garden through the summer- For example: thorough cultivation, proper irrigation and eradication of weeds, j make for a good yield, a poor yield therefore on average soil indicates in many cases that some of these factors have been neglected. |