. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). spoon. With the handle she is taking out the meat of the egg. She is doing it neatly and cleanly so it will be good for a lunch. Gertie Gumption does all her work with a velvet hand. By that I mean that she works with the opposite of a slap-dash, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss style. Children who work without a velvet hand would ruin four eggs before getting one shell fit for the soil and seed. Gertie Gumption did the task with one egg the first time. Now w
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). spoon. With the handle she is taking out the meat of the egg. She is doing it neatly and cleanly so it will be good for a lunch. Gertie Gumption does all her work with a velvet hand. By that I mean that she works with the opposite of a slap-dash, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss style. Children who work without a velvet hand would ruin four eggs before getting one shell fit for the soil and seed. Gertie Gumption did the task with one egg the first time. Now we see her filling one of the egg-shell farms with soil. She has three such farms. One she will fill with clean sand, one with soil from the garden, and one with soil that came from the florist. All will be sowed to pepper- grass and each will be given the same opportunity. The crops in each may be about the same at the beginning. Note the difference at the end of four or six weeks. Here Gertie Gumption has the three egg-shell farms, each set up on the drainage end in a small box partly filled with earth or sand. Each shell has a dent in the earth that holds it upright. Gertie is gently pouring on water until it runs out of the drainage hole in the bottom. If the surplus water could not run away the plants would be in a little " mud-hole " and would be very uncomfortable. The soil can provide comfort for the plants when it is moist and not wet. Can you children tell when a soil is moist and when it is wet? Uxcle Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University
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