Walkerton Independent, Volume 83, Number 22, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 April 1960 — Page 14

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— WALKF^TON INDEPENDENT — April 28, 1960

Spring Heralds Garden Season For "Green Thumbers" In 4-H

The punctual arrival of spring is i signal for "green Uiuini " Hiujnants to get <>ut, th l ' se-si catalogs and dust off Hi" garden tools For 4-H Club members, spung also marks ‘he beginning of gardening proj" Is whit h con’d bring rich rewai H next Call Among them i s4i'O scholarship, a vvond-rf: 1 week at the National 1-H Club Con gross in Chuago. and a han 1anr wnstwat< h d’he srpecific IH award programs are garden and bcautifi-

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c tion of home grounds, according to the Cooperative Extension Service Either one may be carried on in town or on the farm. Tne grounds beautification work includes learn.ng about landscaping, how to plant am! • are for flowers, shrubs, lawns, and to otherwise enhance the exterior of the home surroundings. Usually the entire family lends a hand on this project, because it often invoices painting and building. In the garden program, club

members not only learn how to plan a useful and nutritious garden but also something about inaect control, soil conservation and marketing. Club members find that a well-planned an<! cultivated garden contributes substantially to (.he family yearround food supply, and therefore ad<ls dollars to the food budget. The projects are supervised locally by the volunteer 4-H Club leader and the County Extension agent. Members keep individual progress records and each year enter them and their products in competition with other 4-H gardeneifi in the state. County, state aJid national winners arp then named by the Extension staf?. While the loopvrauo' Extension Service supervises the program work, the awards arc donated by leading business concerns and private individuals. Awards in the garden program come from Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. The home grounds beautification awards aro given by Mrs. Cha.< R. Walgreen of Chicago, a noted horticulturist. Winner of the 1959 national S4OO scholarship award tn the garden program was Ronald Dean Orman. Ik, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorvai Orman. 2102 Maple. Columbus. Im] A club meanber since 1951, Orman was one of some 7600 Indiana 4-Ji'ers enrolled in this program last year. He has gained a reputation statewide as an accomplished vegetable judge and has won scores of ribbons for his garden produce Orman has applied hu* scholarship at Evansville College where he is a freshman He hopes to liocomo an industrial engineer. Information regarding 4-H Club work may be obtained from the State Extension office or the County Exension agent. Fam Work Not Allowed Stndeats In School Honrs Farmers who are hiring workers for spring planting and harv<*Ong wer© reminded that Federal law prcihibita children water 16 from working on farms during school hours The place for children is in the classroom and not in the fields, according to the U. S- Labor Department'a Wago and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions, the agency which enforces the Federal childlabor law. <3il!dren of any age may do farm work before or after school hours, on wodk ends, or on holidaya. Farm children working exblußivefy for their pnannts pi

I HIGH QUALITY I MEAT < * PRODUCTS J. B. Williams &Nons, Inc. 3'? miles west Walkerton Phone 55

guardians arc exempt from the Federal child-labor law. Child-labor provisions apply equally to local children and to migrants. However, migrant children under 16 may be employed in the spring if the school they last attended is closed for the summer, oven though schools may still be open in the area where they have moved to work The farmer can best protect himself from unintentional violation of the law by requiring from each young person he em-

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ploys during school houj age certificate showing least 10. These certif which serve as proof o f a purposes of the law, ma . tamed from local school of Additional mformatioi the application of the i child-labor law to ahildri ing on farms is available fires of the Wage and H . sion at Room 423, Fodera’ ing, Indianapolis 4, ir Room 215, 102 East C South Bend, Indiana. ,

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