East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-20

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lation as 10 what can be accom-
plished along that line. The boys
have raised good gardens, have made
1t pay, they have learned consider
able and they have enjoyed it. The
gardens are operated on an indivi-
dualistic basis. Each student has
plat and he has the privilege of rails
ing what he wishes He buys his own
seed, does all the work and profits
by what he raises. From their plats
most of the students have realized a
Few dollars and some of them as much
as eight of ten dollars. The youth
full gardeners sell their products in
various ways, some to stores, some to
restaurants and others to private
homes. One enterprising student has
established regular route and has
a number of families to whom he sells
his vegetables regularly. He has fur
ther enlarged his operations by buy
ing out the ranches" of a number of
students who will be leaving town
when school closes and consequently
cannot further attend to their plats.
1t is estimated by Mr.. Asbahr that by
good management a student should
make profit of $40 off his plat and
that Is a sum more than sufficient
to buy all the books and stationary a
student needs in year.
However the financial end Is not the
best thing about the garden work. ac-
cording to the instructor The chief
benefit lies in the fact that through
the actual work done the students
are encouraged in the habit of indus
try, are made to see the practical
connection between learning and the
application of learning to useful pur-
poses 1t is not expected to trans
/ form them at once into expert farm
ers, but to give them a taste of il
and to inspire them with a desire to
learn more. 1t Is accomplishing the
purpose. The students have taken
to the work eagerly and most of the
plats have been well cultivated
Such crops as onions, radishes. let
tuce, peas. beans. etc, have been
raised, it being the general rule to
raise easily vegetables so as to get
them marketed before school closed.
All this spring the students having
plats have worked on them during
spare moments and there has been
no lack of zeal.
On several of the plats not in use
! experiments are being made with such
| crops as duran wheat, broom corn,
| field peas and various grasses. The
| most extensive experiments along this
line however are being carried on in
a five acre trace near the L. L. Smith
place. Mr. Smith having given the
school the use Of his land for the
year
| The high school garden is irrigated
and the irrigation system is a wonder
! in itself The students took the old
| pipe that formerly constituted a fence
around the high school grounds. BY
joining up the pipe they have taken
water to the plats and formed a per-
feet irrigation system for the garden
On the large tract by the f. L.
Smith place the agriculturalists have
field of potatoes from which they
! will reap some money this fall. II
will go into the class fund and will be
used for defraying various small ex'
penses connected with the depart
ment
Following the class day program al
the high school Thursday the public
will be shown through the new high
school building and all who desire tC
do so will be shown over the garder
and given first hand view of the
work of the embryo farmers.