File:State Normal School Bulletin 1916-1919 (1916) (14778174745).jpg

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Title: State Normal School Bulletin 1916-1919
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Bulletin Catalogue
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Contributing Library: University of Georgia
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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humus, its use in the soil, and its importance in soil building andconservation. Along with this study, the girls begin the planting and cultivationof vegetables. There has been developed a progressive programfor several years work. A first year girl raises chiefly tomatoes,while the second year girl continues the work with tomatoes andtakes up some other vegetable, usually string beans, Spanish pep-pers or beets. At the close of the second year, the girl puts one-third of her tenth acre, or a space equal to that in area into someperennial, preferably one of the small fruits or asparagus. On theother two-thirds of her plot she cultivates tomatoes and some othervegetable. After the fourth year, it is hoped the girl may be inducedto go away to school, provided there is no adequate school in hercommunity, and so during that year the whole tenth acre is plantedout in asparagus beds, rows of well cultivated strawberries, cur-rants, gooseberries, etc. After four years work, the interest of

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