My flower garden (The what are you doing club)
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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
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- My flower garden (The what are you doing club)
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- 1939
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- March, 1999 Another Pouliry Raiser Prize Composition By Vrcs. R. MABAsA (14 years old) My father built me a small :µoultry house so I could raise chickens. I learned how to C'Ontrol diseases by using tincture of iodine or creoline. For controlling chicken lice I apply warm soapsuds. I have been fairly succes:.ful in keeping my chickens immune from disease. In my flock I have only native chickens-that is, those which we have in the Philippines. I have eight hens, one cockerel, and thirty young chickens. I secured a pamphlet from the Bureau of Agriculture called Poultry Raising Made Easy by Dr. Fronda. I found this pamphlet very helpful. Whenever I have time I am busy making chicken coops and troughs. I have made a self-feeder for my laying hens. I will try my best to meet the requirements for a junior poultryman, for I wish to become a sllccessful poultry raiser. I hope this wish will come true. THE YOUNG CITIZEN Stamp Collecting Prize Composition By VICTORIA R. CRUZ ( 15 yoo.rs old) Foremost among my hobbies is stamp collecting. It gives me great pleasure to collect stamps of differen,t countries. It is interesting and educational. I have many stamps from different countries. Let me tell you how I serure my stamps. I get some from letters and packages received at my home. I remove them by wetting them with a little water. My father, brothers, and unC"les help me to get stamps. Another way in which I secure stamps is by writing to boys and girls in other countrie.:i. We exchange stamps, and I get a number in that way. Of course I exchange stamps with my friends in the Philippines who are stamp collectors. And, too, I buy some. Stamps should be kept in neat little stamp a1bumsthen they .are not injured or lost. I enjoy my hobb:v, and am becoming a successful stamp collector. 119 Selected Compositions Learning to Swim I was afraid to go into the v;.ater to try to learn to swim, but at last I got up enough courage to try. One of my friends gave me a large piece of bamboo. He tdd me to cling to the bamboo and use my feet for paddles. I held on tightly to the bamboo which I was using as a life-preserver. Presently I could swim so well that I went with my friends to practice diving. Now I can swim as well as anybody. - Leon 'V. Huerto (12 years old). My Flower Garden On each side of my rectangular plot I have flowering shrubs growing. The one I like best is the sampaguita. On the tall bamboo fence there is a beautiful bougainvi!laea. In my plot I raise many of the flower plants to be found in the Philippines. Some of the plants which one can raise are zinnias, mar.igolds, roses, lilies, coleus, and others. My flower garden is "a thing of be:rnty" and therefore is "a Joy forever." - Purificacion Laneluz (13 years old).