The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-16
BOYS GARDENS on
old WELLS PROPERTY
HAS BEEN BIG SUCCESS

The garden tract on the old Wells
property has been quite an attractive
place this season. What was an eye
sore to. the community has been trans
formed into a place of beauty.
| The boys who have gone thru the
season with these gardens have made
profit and have had a pleasure great
er than one gets out OF ordinary play
And they have learped something that
will go with them thru life.
The Women's Civic Improvement
League has done a great service to
the community in cleaning up this
property and in fostering these gard
ems. The gardening has been under
the supervision OF Prof Cleland.
The following are names of boys
who started in with the garden work
at the beginning and are still with ii
Lawrence Swanson. Maurice Konkel
Waiter <Bondurant. Joe Burgen. VIM
Haley. Franklin whalen. Raymond
whaien. Edwin Patterson. Robert
| Yard. Harry Combs, Jr., Walter Sat
terfield.
Lawrence Swanson has made the
greatest success OF his garden to date
He sold s9I5 worth of vegetables a,
total cost of 1855. This includes
plants. seed and his labor. leaving a
net profit of $3.50.
Ar.tl,ar ha,- x.-Ha hos ~, IL. f,,,it a .,
success of his garden. financially. is
Joe Burgen. who has sold $500 worth
of vegetables at a total cost of about
$500. including allowance for labor.
Carol Sweeney was the first to get
roasting ears from his corn plot.
Some of the boys have gotten very
little out of their plots but experience.
One of these was boy who put his
lot in beans and then neglected it.
He was convinced that the ground
was no good. and neither irrigated or
cultivated it. He at last forfeited his
lot. and IL was given TO another boy
who cleaned it up and irrigated it.
He now has a fine crop of beans COM
| ing on at a total cost so far of about
90 cents. This amount represented
the time he spent in cleaning up and
irrigating the plot.
Another boy sold his garden for 40
cents The boy who bought ii cleaned
Il up and at once sold enouph cab
base from the plot 10 repay him for
what he had paid for it.
Ralph Patton put in garden and
when he found that he would not be
here through the summer months
sold 1t at profit OF about s1.0o.
Most of the boys have diversified
gardens. few have specialized in a
single crop. as corn. beans OF the like.
One of these that gives promise of a
profitable crop is the garden of Wal
ter Bondurant. who has his plot en-.
| tirely in tomatoes.
| Taken as a whole the children oi
the home gardens have possibly been
more successful than those in the
| Wells gardens. This may be due in
part to the fact that there are few
things 10 distract the boys attention
when the gardens are in the back yard
white IL he is TO go several blocks to
the gardens the temptation that will
lead him somewhere else are numer
Gus. Among the most successful oI
the home gardens boys may be men
toned Emory Smith. whose garden is
located on Tenth street between Rudd
and College avenues. That of Russell
| Ashley at Ninth and Whipple: Roy
Wallace at te5 Pine avenue. The
Shupp boys at Sixth and Mystic ave
nue. have planted quite lot of Irish
potatoes.
| Everett Harry. whose garden Is or
North Nineteenth street is specializ
ing in beans. tomatoes and popcorn
and will show as great a profit as any
OF the boys.
| Other home gardens that deserve
mention are velma Smith, Eleventh
and Greenwood avenue: Jewel Eisling
er. Az Forest avenue and welwood
Bean. sls Harrison avenue.