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4- ^SR^5S555aS!!?S^8!s5pïufîgS g@^|jp5|g§p|I•;.,:5 yvÇïy^CrïrÇ; •- ®5 ;.- /■5a All Growing «u« dependent on nourishment for growth. Their health as men and women is largely established in childhood. If your child is languid, bloodless, tired when rising, inth- out ambition or rosy cheeks, ScoifsE, help. It possesses nature's gnmdert body-boikhng fats so delicately predigested that the blood absorbs ^strength and carries it to every organ and tissue and fibre. First it 1 n ma urn their appetite, then ft adds flesh--strengthens the honee-mehee them sturdy, native and healthy. No alcohol or narcotic m Scott'a Emnbion, jest pirity and strength. 13-79 Our Aim Is to satisfy all students by giving them best instruction (individual) and securing all remunerative positions. A special teacher course. In affiliation with Orillia Busina»* 'College atifl Dominion Correspondence Correspondence School, Lindsay Business College H. A. Spottox D. C. Ross President Principal EDUCATIONAL. School Gardens and Agriculture in Public Schools. i TELEGRAPHY * k and all the duties of a Station Agent are easily learned at home by means of our New Home Study Courses. We invite you to write for particulars particulars and sample lessons. . It will pay you well to learn these things. . . Write Shaw's Telegraph and Rail- ^ road School, Yonge-st., Toronto W. H. SHAW, President. « I $ By R. S. Duncan, B.S.A., Port Hope, Ont. For many years it has been quite generally conceded that our public school system was not entirely satisfactory. satisfactory. The school didn't enter into ~ the child's life. The studies didn't teach anything of the child's vocation. It led to the High School and from there to the University. Hence, few children attend high school ; it led nowhere for them and as a result they were turned out unskilled laborers. The industrial urban school and the agricultural work in the rural schools are designed designed to bridge this gap. The teaching of agriculture in the rural schools of Ontario is not u fad. It is not a new thing. As a matter of fact there has not been a time .since the establishment of our work is growing very rapidly. It is under the direction of Prof. S. B. Mc Cready, Director of Elementary Agricultural Education for Ontario- In 1910 only 15 schools qualified for special grants for school gardens, in 1913 upwards of 300 schools have taught agriculture through practical practical work in gardening. Besides these school gardens carried carried on a-t the schools, I wish to draw your attention to the Rural School Fair Movement which was adopted some few years ago and which to my mind marks a new era in the development of agricultural education. A goodly number pf the agricultural representatives m Ontario are devoting a great deal of time and thought to school fairs and the plan so far has been very favorably commented upon by teachers, inspectors, trustees and parents alike. The new plan is based on the idea o<f vocational education whereby those pupils who intend being farmers will be trained directly in their life work. The object of the school fair is designed to prepare the boy and girl for the farm, to create in them a greater love for farm life, to make them more efficient efficient workers, more practical thinkers, more intelligent citizens. The rural school fair does this by taking the children into the fields, by making them think in terms of the farm, and by teaching them the value of laibor skillfully applied. The school fair is more than a new study. It is an advancement in country life. It encourages the boy and girl to observe the natural and common things they see about them every day, thus giving the pupil pupil a better appreciation of the beautiful in nature ; it gives the boy "FRUIT-HIKES" Because They Cured Him, And They Will Cure You U'mo 'Oiuou va.a.v >_/,-> v - -- - ---, . , i Provincial School System that ef- and girl something' definite to ao forts have not been made to have and encourages a friendly rivalry the subject of Agriculture taught in amongst them. NO OTHER COMMERCIAL SCHOOL ever hart truer "friends among Its graduates graduates than the popular TORONTO, ONT, Meritorious work for the students has been an active agent In the unbuilding or this College. This school offers the best advantages. Students may enter at any time. Mav we send you our handsome Catalogue ? Cor. Yonge * Alexander-sbs.. W. J. ELLIOTT, Principal. 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Thinly sliced- bananas moistened with mayonnaise and placed between between buttered slices of bread make excellent school sandwiches. the schools. There have been three different public school text books prepared and authorized a£ different. different. times. Thirteen years ago the subject held a place amongst the obligatory subjects in the public school course of study. Now it is optional!. Moreover, there is. no text book prescribed. The agriculture agriculture taught in the public school today today shaped itself from the nature study that was introduced in 1904 and which is becoming better understood understood year iby year. The subject subject is essentially agricultural. Its text book is the home, the garden, the field, the orchard and the school farm or garden. • Its course of study is the common plants and ani mais, the common work and interests interests of the common people who send their children to the common schools. Its method is a natural one ; instruction is based on the pupils' natural interests,, his pre sent and prospective environment and his own activities. School Gardens ! What are they 'I By many a proper school garden N(s considered to be a well arrangée series of plots with a more or less uniform assortment of flowers anc. vegetables grown by the pupils, in the different classes. Such an arrangement arrangement may undoubtedly provide provide a good school garden. What is the meaning of school gardening? The word "School" in the expression "School gardening" indicates' that the chief purpose in bringing gardening into school work is education for the child. This should not be lost sight of. A garden garden at school may be quite a different different thing from a school garden. It is not the location at school that makes it a-school garden. A child's garden at home may be a real, school garden and of the very best kind. Oaring for an apple tree or~a flower in a pot may be a child's school garden. It is . not location, nor size, nor crops nor even the age of the pupil that determines whether the garden is a school garden ; -it is the purpose or object. The object is not simply to grow grains, roots, or flowers. The purpose is higher. It is to furnish incentives and provide provide a field for work that will be rich educationally in recreative, instructional instructional and character forming experiences. Besides this general agricultural work carried on under the name of nature study several hundred schools have during the past few years given special attention to agriculture in school gardens, home gardens, etc. This phase of the MR. MIX. MOOARTCR Walkerton. Ont., May 9th. 1911. "I have been in Walkerton in business for a good many years and many of my townsmen know that my health, for long periods was precarious. 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In brief the plan of the work is follows :--A number of rural schools are grouped into a school rail dis trict, the pupils of which are to have their choice of specially selected selected seed - of the best variety of either potatoes, mangels, corn, barley, barley, oats or sweet peas, which they are to take home and plant according according to directions ; they were also to care for and harvest the crop and keep an accurate account of the yield. A limited number of pupils in each school were each gdven a dozen eggs from â utility strain of Barred Plymouth Rocks. Each pupil pupil receiving eggs was given full charge of the hatching, rearing and feeding of the chickens. The plots and flocks were inspected inspected during the summer and prizes awarded "for those showing the greatest care and attention on the part of the pupils. The raising of •the particular crop or flock was discussed with the pupil. The seed supplied the pupils was pure, 01 the best known varieties and from a uniform lot. Directions were given sufficient only to make the competition competition equal to all. No directions as to the beffc way of growing the crops was given, thus from the many sources of information, the boys and girls who learned the most about. arid gave the greatest care to his or her crop or flock would likely have the best result. The seed harvested and the crop raised became the property of the pupil. The pupils have taken a deep interest interest in looking after their plots and flocks during the summer, often comparing their crops with those grown by their fathers. In this way, father and son discuss the methods of cultivation followed, the selection of seed and other points in connection connection with the growing of a particular particular crop. But the crowning feature of the work is the Rural School Fair where the products of the plots, the chickens, collections of weeds, seeds, insects, cooking and sewing are placed on exhibition, pupil competing against pupil and school against school for the prizes offei- ed. Most of the fairs have been held in a huge tent erected on the grounds of the school most centrally centrally located in the district. Early on the day the exhibits began to .ar- r i ve _boys with their pullets and cockerels, the best birds of the land, the grain, corn, roots and potatoes from the plots, better in. quality and yield than daddy . ever grew. The girls bringue wing, cooking and preserving samples of their own work and a credit to them. Prize? are also offered for collections of nature objects, weeds, wild flowers, weed seeds, insects, etc., correctly named and the neatness and correctness correctness of the collections would put many a college student to shame.. By noon all' exhibits are in their places and judging commences. The judge soon realizes that a task is before him when he begins to pick out the best pen of birds from 50 or more exhibits. The crops from the plots are so carefully selected and arranged "that they offer no small problem for the judge At the South Hope and Cavan school fairs held in this district over 700 individual entries were made by the pupils. The school grounds were crowded--rigs and automobiles lining the fences on- all sides of the school grounds. The parents show ed almost as much interest as the children. Sports were a feature of the afternoon afternoon which adds interest, the teacher and trustees entering heartily heartily into the races with as much zest as the boys and girls. At each of the school fairs in this district a rural school fair association association has been organized and the school fair is now managed by a (board of directors elected by the school pupils. This, to my mind, is a commendable feature. Each school elected a committee of three, the chairman of the committee being THIS is a HOME DYE that ^ANYONE can use DYOLA I The Guaranteed "ONE DYE for All Kinds of Cloth. Clean, Simple, No Chance of Mistakes. TRY i IT I Send for Free Color Card and Booklet. I The Johnson-Rickardeon Co. Limited, Montreal National Live Stock, Horticultural Horticultural and Dairy Show EXHIBITION PARK, TORONTO November 17 to 23 $30,000 in Prizes Poultry Fruit Pigoont Flowers Pet Stock Vegetables Dogfc Honey Reduced Rates on all Railways. Office: Temple Building, Toronto. Telephone Adelaide 3803. Morses Cattle Sheep Swine the director representing the school on the fair board. This board is fully organized with President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer, and has met from time to time during the summer to discuss matters matters pertaining to the competition and the fair under the supervision of the Agricultural Representative. Each school -section contributes towards towards the prize list in the form of a small grant, thus showing their interest and co-operation. All matters concerning the fair are transacted in a business-like manner. manner. Records are kept by the Secretary Secretary of minutes and items ; the Ass delation has a bank account asd the treasurer pays all prize money by check countersigned by the President. President. At these committee meetings meetings the boys and girls get a splendid splendid training in business matters which no doubt will stand them in good stead. When- you were a boy or a girl, did you know what a cheque was? Well, it depends on how long ago that was (pardon reference reference to the mercenary side of it). But the rising generation, if the school fair continues and grows, will be required to cash cheques continually. Cashing cheques will go hand in hand with up-to-date agriculture. agriculture. . I firmly believe that the introduction introduction of school gardens, call them what you will, will be looked upon as a vital part of our educational system. Wherever they have been conducted favorable comments from both teachers and school authorities warrant the idea being carried out elsewhere. School gardens are attracting much attention as an aid to nature study and they are encouraged by special grants from the educational department. If nothing more is gotten gotten out of these school gardens than the pleasures the children have in watching the growth of their plants and the keeping of their plots neat and tidy, I think a school garden pays, and pays well for all the trouble it costs. They are simply the means while the end is in the interest that is aroused and the thought stimulated. In the rural school the small child and simple effort should not be overlooked. Dr. Creelman, President President of the Ontario Agricultura College, has stated that he had long felt that if he could get hold of the boys and girls of the country schools at a time when their minds were active, active, their eyes observant and their hands fairly tingling to be busy all day long, he could start the work of improvement with the hope of better results in the days to come.. If they take up this work there will result added knowledge, increased enthusiasm and an ever growing love for the school. Parents become interested in the work done by the pupils, and many home gardens of flowers and common vegetables would be planted as the result of this training. The 'boy who conducts conducts a careful experiment in the growth of crops and follows in detail detail the course of its success or failure failure gains as much mental training as if he had composed Latin verse, but in addition he comes into contact contact in a most vital way with the facts and principles that will be of use to him as long as he lives. The very fact that pupils would be encouraged encouraged to investigate and observe observe would awaken the dormant powers that lie within and bring out all that is in them. "Learning to do by doing" should- be their motto. motto. Remember it is not so much the information imparted that counts, but rather the trend of thought induced in the pupil. Department of Agriculture, Port Hope, 1913. 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