Bird lore - Project Puffin

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leaves, and showing forty-three separate exhibits of maple sugar in five pound
pails, prepared by the young people of the garden class last spring.
"Much interest was shown in the parade which opened the afternoon's pro-
gram. This was followed by the running races and the speaking by prominent
people present.
"We have purposely omitted all names of the individual exhibitors. There
were several hundred of them, and the display each one offered was well worth a
LYNDON GARDEN CLASS DEMONSTRATION LESSON
prize. The list of the actual prize winners will be in shape to be made public
next week. In the meantime, every exhibitor should realize that to show as good
results as were there demonstrated is a prize in itself well worth striving for and
no one should be disappointed."
The speakers of the day were a Congressman and Senator of Vermont and
the Secretary of the Greater Vermont Association, all of whom made a direct
appeal to the large audience present, comprised of the garden class, with parents
and guests, to further the splendid work of the children in the interests not
only of the state but also of the individual, inasmuch as the efforts of the class
betokened both practical and cultural values of great moment to the development
of the community.
The class represents most of the families in the farming section of
Lyndon, outside of the village proper, and is conducted by a trained instructor,
whose duty it is to visit the gardens regularly, to arrange special work, and to
take charge of exhibitions. She writes: "The aim of our undertaking is to
awaken interest in the doing of all the work that fathers and mothers have to do
in the home, getting the children to do their share, thus instilling lessons of
their responsibility in the upkeep and care of the home, and helping them to
get all the pleasure there is in developing home resources, so that, as they grow