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his attention, a short [section?] 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 [? & State?] - "Gardening as
a School Subject" being the title of this
article.

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