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his attention, a short portion of which was
also read, telling us that nine times out
of ten, when your lima beans fail to
make good, & if your pea vines have an
unhealthy color, or if your string beans are
stunted, you may be sure they lack the
one thing they must have; above all
others - nitrogen. There are, we are
told, practical means of introducing root
bacteria that catch nitrogen from the air.

The 2^nd reader, Margaret Bancroft, read
to us from the June number of the
magazine City & State - "Gardening as
a School Subject" being the title of this
article.

"We are glad to know the the U.S. school
garden army under The Bureau of Education ,
is a Federal agency which hopes
ultimately to keep the schools of this
country to establish school & school supervised
home gardening as an organic part
of their work, & it would not be extra
again to predict that within the next
few years. Gardening will take its place
with manual training & home economics
as one of the essential subjects in the
course of study."