The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-08-29
Made an Inspection
of School Gardens

Va O(AuVOA O0A uOAtO
A few days since. thanks to the court
fesy of Mrs. T. N. Harding and Coun-
~ Agricultur.st. r. r. Jeffrey. the
women members of the Board of Edu-
cation bad the pleasant experience OF
Inspecting a numDer of school gard, MS
August is not the month 10 expect
trim rows OF budding vegetation. A
number OF varieties have been har-
vested. II insects have been busy the
results show their work If weeds
have been permitted. the carlessness
il apparent.
thing to show for what has been
done. There has been time for actual
accomplishment.
Starting out c'ose to the Hosback
in the northern part of town and end
ing almost at -Four Mile. large num-
ber OF gardens were inspected. Some
were handled by girls. some by boys.
Some covered enough ground for tiny
truck farms and others would not
have covered the proyerbial back yard.
The record books of some OF these
young folks were very perfect though
what is very probably the most sue
cessful had no. record AT all. But a
few facts were everywhere evident.
First the faitbfulness of the chill
dren This has been summer of
pests and the young gardeners have
had TO work early and late to make
success One young man told us
of pint bottle Of bean bugs that he
had collected from his vines. In spite
oi this haudicap beans have been
grown. served on the family table.
sold and canned. The finest canned
product shown us consisted OF golden
wax beans.
Another thing. The family table had
been literally supplied from these gar
dens. This was true in every garden
inspected. The quantity raised ON
small plots was remarkable
The records showed gratifying sales.
In one case over SIS had been cleared
above all expenses and very probably
this amount will be doubled before
cold weather.
We were impressed by what was
very plain AZ we talked with the young
folks. Records can show amount of
time. labor and money, spent. They
can tell of vegetables eaten and sold
But no records can show the most
important result. the effect OF this
work ON tn. Individual worker. The
boys and girls feel that they too, are
helping in th. task given our nation.
They are developing stcadiness OF
purpose and Willingness To labor. Is
pecialiy in the home gardens they feel
themselves assets in the family life
The gardens have proved their worth
but the gardeners were even more in
tcr.sting than their gardens
Those ~ho judge the work aecomp-
lishcd by the plots ON the Wells
property cannot have an adequate idea
OF its scope. But ther. are some
fine gardens on these plots also. Gn-
fortunately few have been careless
and permitted weeds and these give
an unkept appearance to The whole
group. II you are doubter. just
walk through and see for yourself
what fine vegetables some OF the boys
can show.
Th. committee in charge has rcas-
on TOR pride in what has been done. iu
obliterstion OF the unsightly vacant lot
in various parts of town, in the fine
quality OF the vegetables raised and
best of all for It's share in developing
young people worthy of their brothers
who are now fighting for our nation
and it's ideals, ~.
ANNA II. BURGESS.