. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 763 a rural school garden Florence Ware (A Young Gardener). On January 29, 1909, we celebrated Corn Day here at our school, with appropriate exercises. During the exercises our trustee spoke to us. We enjoyed all he said, but the part that interested us the most and for which we felt the most thankful was his plan to rent a piec
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 763 a rural school garden Florence Ware (A Young Gardener). On January 29, 1909, we celebrated Corn Day here at our school, with appropriate exercises. During the exercises our trustee spoke to us. We enjoyed all he said, but the part that interested us the most and for which we felt the most thankful was his plan to rent a piece of ground near the school, for us to use as a school garden. He said he would divide it into plots four feet by twenty feet and give each of us a plot to work, as our own little garden, and would give us twenty-five cents each with which to buy our seeds. He asked each of us to raise one hill of corn on our plot, and he offered a prize of one dollar to the pupil who raised the best com. We bought our seeds early in the spring of James Vick's Sons, of Rochester. In April the ground was plowed and divided into plots. The plots were numbered and each child drew a number, and then the children went out and each claimed the plot that had the number corresponding with the nvimber he 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 New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?]
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