Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-13
TOTALS FOR SECOND SUMNER
BETTER THAN WHEN WORK
FIRST STARTED.
AVERAGE FOR ONE GARDEN
EQUALS SUM OF s24.65
Sixty Two in Which Vegetables Were
Raised Totaled Sum of s1,31o34 as
Pay For Time and Trouble-Fiower
Gardens Also Profita bIe-New Ven
ture Of Chicken Club Works Well.

Sixty-two gardens raising produce
and vegetables amounting to s1,51S Sc
vas the record made by the pupils OF
the MarshalltoWn schools in their sec
ond attempt at summer gardening for
credits in school work. There were
seventy young gardeners who
completed their work and received
credit, and sixty-two Of these raised
Vegetables.
I Deducting s154S2 spent for seed. and
(! $3.50 for miscellaneous expenses,
there MAS still S1.310.34 left as pay for
The time and trouble This averaged
S24.65 for each individual garden. This
7 IS a better record than that OF last
year
+ Average Showing Very Good.
/ Most OF the produce raised by the
! young people was either sold or used
/ al home. No records approaching the
+ large sum OF Money made by Ned
| Trowhridse in the SUMMER of 1914
/ were made. but gardens as whole
made better showing. Young Trow-
/ bridge cleared nearly 81. 900 in his first
venture. a total OF 10. pupils enrolled
for the work early in the spring. but
only seventy-one finished Thirty
nine had gardens but did not report at
! the time when ihe course closed. and
twenty FIVE either quit because they
, We're sick, left town. or were discour-
aged
Meetings Great Help.
Each garden was visited at least
twice during the summer. by y.
Ciahrielson. the teacher in charge of
The work and most OF them three
times. In addition TO these visits
meetings were held every two weeks
during the summer. as we'll as two be-
fore school was dismissed in the
spring Owing 20 the great amount Of
moisture during the summer months.
many more problems confronted the
workers than last year. New insect
pests and new diseases of plants and
vegetables arose many times but at
the meetings these We're taken UP and
discussed, and proper methods Of
treatment given. The meetings were
great help to the pupils and are re-
sponsible in large measure for the
better showing. That the agricultur-
lists were interested in these problems
and how to meet them is shown by
the fact that the average attendance
at the meetings during the summer
was forty-five.
Nine Of the pupils enrolling in the
course devoted their time 70 the rails
ing of flowers instead of vegetables
They succeeded in raising many more
flowers and greater variety than last
year No way of estimating the re-
turns from the flower raising was re-
CURED. but the educational value TO
the pupils was deemed as great as
the vegetable garden. Credits were
granted on the basis of results Oh
tanned, time spent and attendance at
the meetings
Chicken Club New Departure
A new plan, that Of having chick
en- club. was tried out for the first
time last summer. ard altho only
small results were obtained. due to the
small number finishing the work, the
idea was seen to he q good one
Twelve boys We're originally members
of the club, but only four reported on
their work at the close of the sum-
mer They had been instructed to in
voice their stock On hand April l.
when work began ard then to con-
slider themselves as starting in bust
ness at that time.
Most Of this work was carried on
by private talks with the boys Ac-
counts We're kept as in the garden
work and q brief summary 81 thc &c
suits made good showing Three
boys had stock on hand in the spring
amounting to s2Ts.15 Others bought
incubators and eggs and started with
this material. The value Of the eggs
produced during the summer was
s9s.3S and the value Of the poultry
raised was s425.s0. making total %
$521.as received for both eggs and
poultry The cost Of feed and care.
(for the three reports mentioned
above) was s11279 leaving s4091e
which was received for the time and
trouble Boys who entered this work
had been IN the classes in agriculture
and had had some previous experience
with poultry The work Will probably
be taken up again next summer In
goth the gardens and poultry.