“Very sincerely yours, (Signed)”

AGNES A. CORDING

“Asst.  Principal.”

P. S. No. 7

Grade 4 A—­April 2l, 1915.

Arthur Miller, Age 10

OUR GARDEN

At first we planted radishes then onions and lettuce and beans and sunflowers.  Each one of us have 1/4 of a box.  When we had finished that we brought them up to the front of the room and then watered them and went home.

Anna Duerr, Aye 8

MY GARDEN

I have a garden.  It is a box.  I have a quarter of a box for my very own.  My garden has five rows.  In the first there are radishes, in the second lettuce, in the third onions, in the fourth beans, in the fifth sunflowers.  I hope my garden grows up.

Of course these are only preparatory for profitable work.  We have cases in which $2000 has been recorded from sales in one year from one acre, and many cases in which at least $1000 worth of produce has been sold from an acre.  These are sales, not profits.

Such results are not due to the boundless and fertile soil of the new world nor to small farming alone—­they are due to intelligence.

Professor Ronna gives the following figures of crops per acre at Romford (Breton’s Farm):  28 tons of potatoes (say 952 bushels), 16 tons of marigold, 105 tons of beets, 110 tons of carrots, 9 to 20 tons of various cabbages, and so on.

It was suggested to the Agricultural Department that it might fix standards of what is a good attainable crop.

On every golf links we have what is called a Bogie score posted up.  That is a score that a certain mythical Captain Bogie, supposed to be an average good player, could make on those links.  On one typical club-course, for instance, the Bogie score is 42.  Though it has been done in 37, the ordinary player congratulates himself when he gets down to the Bogie score.

Now, if there were standards attainable to ordinary intelligent and good cultivation set in each section, it would enormously encourage farmers to reach them, which may be of great importance.

One of the heads of the Department replied as follows: 

’"In regard to fixing a standard for each farmer to strive to attain, I think that a very good idea; but the standard for each crop in each particular locality would necessarily be somewhat different from that in every other locality.  Persons who have had experience in experimental work keenly appreciate these points.  The work which is done upon one soil formation under different climatic conditions in one season, does not necessarily find a duplicate in any other locality, and the experience is that what is accomplished in one year would not be duplicated on the same soil and under the same management again in several years, for the conditions under which agriculture