Productive farming . Fig. 100.—Harvest in the spring-time, from the school garden. (.Agricultural Education.) winter use, and starting a hot-bed for late winter and earlyspring use, we can supplement the summer garden and havevegetables for home use all the year. Exercise.—Frost and Rainfall.—Write to the WeatherBureau, at Washington, and get the summary of the weatherrecord for your section. Find the dates when the late springfrosts and the early fall frosts occur. Took up, also, theannual rainfall and see how many inches of this rain fallsin the summer months. It is good practice for the mem
Productive farming . Fig. 100.—Harvest in the spring-time, from the school garden. (.Agricultural Education.) winter use, and starting a hot-bed for late winter and earlyspring use, we can supplement the summer garden and havevegetables for home use all the year. Exercise.—Frost and Rainfall.—Write to the WeatherBureau, at Washington, and get the summary of the weatherrecord for your section. Find the dates when the late springfrosts and the early fall frosts occur. Took up, also, theannual rainfall and see how many inches of this rain fallsin the summer months. It is good practice for the membersof the class to keep records of frosts in fall and spring. Thetime of planting garden vegetables may be governed bythese records. 180 PRODUCTIVE FARMING School Gardening.—The principles already given forvegetable gardening at home may be used in the schoolgarden. Let the rows be long, and each student may have nDDDDDDDDDDDggH. Fig. 101.—Planting plan for a one-acre school-yard, with school garden plotsHt the rear. The trees and shrubs are not scattered over the lawns and playground.(Agricultural Education.) a whole row or a section across several rows instead of asmall bed. In this way the students can learn to garden asat home. They may use the drill and wheel hoe if the schoolcan afford these implements. GARDENING 181 The place for the school garden should be handy to theschool but not necessarily on the land owned by the not let its location interfere with the school the location in Figs. 97 and 101. The garden need not be very large, but let the size bewhatever is available and make the best use of it. Equipment and Seeds.—^Under most circumstances afence will be required. A neat woven wire fence will keepout chickens and dogs as well as larger animals. The school need not own the plow and horse tools. Thehorse work will be done by volunteers or by those paid fordoing it. T
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