. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 410 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, June 27, 1901. ers. Let the children seek the market, prepare the vege- tables, etc., in neatest fashion, do their own selling, and, most important of all, let them have every cent of the proceeds, to spend as their very own. If rightly guided—and the thought- ful home circle will always keep guidance in mind—the money will not go for tobacco, nor nonsense. Very likely it will go for books or papers that will guide to better profits. How rich is the culture that comes from such a scheme, well and successfully carried out I It
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 410 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, June 27, 1901. ers. Let the children seek the market, prepare the vege- tables, etc., in neatest fashion, do their own selling, and, most important of all, let them have every cent of the proceeds, to spend as their very own. If rightly guided—and the thought- ful home circle will always keep guidance in mind—the money will not go for tobacco, nor nonsense. Very likely it will go for books or papers that will guide to better profits. How rich is the culture that comes from such a scheme, well and successfully carried out I It will surely be the best school the child will ever attend. I believe in education. I am sure no class can have too much. Were all our people thoroughly and wisely educated, most of the evils of our present society would disappear. I believe the educated farmer may exert a power forgood that any man might .justly envy. I talked this to my boy long before he entered college. I believe that the teaching that fol- lows boyhood is the teaching that tells. My boy, before lif hardly reached h i ~ teens, had such a gar- den as suggested above. He also had a valuable partner — his younger sister. He also had two very interested specta- tors to advise, direct and encourage. They were the "tother" part of the home circle. That boy not only se- cured spending money —he got habits of thrift, of industry, of systematic work; and, best of all, he acquired such a love of the work, that he looked towards agriculture during all his college course, and to-day is an enthusiastic tiller of the soil. He has no use for tobacco, and if he ever uses profane or unclean language, a knowledge of the fact has never reached his father's ear. That little garden was a garden indeed. In it grew richer and better plants than celery or asparagus. There are gardens and gardens. Setting the table may be the garden for the girl, or she may have a veritable flower- garden that perchance may take h
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