New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-29
THEIR THRIVING FARMS.
De Witt Clinton Boys and Girls
Turn Ont Good Crops.


Boys and girls who want to engage in agriculture
at De Witt Clinton Park next summer VII! be wise
If they arrange the matter now Tor there is already
a long list Of applicants. and not an afternoon
passes without half dozen boys stopping at the
fence and shouting:
Hi! mister Can have a farm next yearq'
And unfortunately there are going 10 be only be-
tween and three hundred farms TO be mad
Two hundred and fifteen plots were laid cut this
year and the little farmers are consulting their
laoors by exhibiting the results of the same 70 the
public. The latchstring Of the farm cottage hangs
out every afternoon this week from o'clock untn
8, and the girls serve delicious tea Of their own
brewing 10 all corners.
The farm Is most attractive spot at the present
time The sunfowers planted at the end OF the
'4FSe week IN August are Just coming into bloom.
ana the scarlet runners on the Toulouse are bright
Win blossoms. All around the cottage and around
me hagpole in the centre of the farm are blooming
flowers ana IN the individual farms are rows of
carrots
None of the farms were started before July %
When the ground first broken. but the crops
nave been most satisfactory One crop of radishes
mas been taken from the beds, and quantity Of
lettuce, letters s OF the children spell
II IN their farm books. has been grown. A second
crop OF radishes IS coming in and II the frost
keeps OF little longer there will be LOT Of nice
string beans. The carrots need only little mor~
warm weather bring them to a satisfa Glory
size. and though the heets have not come any
thing their red leaves make such pretty spots OF
color III the garden that the visitors glad they
wero planted The farmers probably entertain diff
fereut opinion however for ike most agrculturiss.
they are inclined TO have unitarian ideas. When
the plots had all been laid out some irregular bits
Of ground we've left, and the farmer in chief @ n.
Parsons. who. with his sister Miss Parsons is
helping Mrs. Henry Parsons in the management of
the farm this year suggested the girls that they
should plant aowers there But the girls did
take 10 the idea a all
Please cant we have vegetabIes2' they asked.
So al the odd bits OF ground 5ut were
planted with vegetables and turned over 10 some
OF the girls as anueAes to their farms The one
planted with flowers was also given one Of The
girls hut she declined waste her time on any
thing so useless. Nevertheless. the children are all
delighted 20 set the flowers which have been dis
t-lbuted 20 them every Friday since the season
opened.
The farms are about four feet wide by eleven
feet long ard the most industrious farmer cannot
expend more than hatf an hours labor each day
on his crops. effort has been made 70 pro-
vide other work about the farm and cottage. The
+ Bows have been allowed 10 have household inter
es,s as weU AS the girls and Of the four house
keepers appointed each week NO are always boys
! They 90 all me heavy work In the cottage ard
some mat isn't SO heavy They iron and scrub and
take much interest in domestic affairs the
girls do Both boys and girls have assisted in
masking -r- furniture for tho cottage. and r. now
looks much rre-rie- than many dwellings oU which
hundreds ~ dollars lave been spent The screens
are made from clot1es1orses. painted and dled m
with Inexpensive fabrics. and the umbrella stand
has been manufactured from btt 81 dgain pipe
cenented az one end. painted dark green. ard
decorated WITH white umbrella. a supposed ike
ness ot one which Mrs Parsons the founder of tho
farm has carried Tor tie last three seasons The
curtain rods are coWel sticks which procured
from ne.sh69rag ca-peEte- az hal: a cent apiece.
- me- i.-at I-r [oIraI -t-.~ aas been made