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The Director, Walter E. Clark, believes that a school with children living full time in its care must take full responsibility for their welfare. | living | {
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The Director, Walter E. Clark, believes that a school with children living full time in its care must take full responsibility for their welfare. | take | {
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To him this means caring for the whole child, providing basic nutrition, and a spiritual attitude that lends freedom for the development of the mind. | means | {
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The concept of good nutrition really began with the garden. | began | {
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The school has always maintained a farm to supply the needs of the school. | maintained | {
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The school has always maintained a farm to supply the needs of the school. | supply | {
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In a climate hostile to agriculture, Mr. Clark has had to keep alert to the most productive farm techniques. | keep | {
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Where a growing season may, with luck, allow 60 days without frost, and where the soil is poor, sandy, quick-drying and subject to erosion, many farmers fail. | allow | {
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Where a growing season may, with luck, allow 60 days without frost, and where the soil is poor, sandy, quick-drying and subject to erosion, many farmers fail. | is | {
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Where a growing season may, with luck, allow 60 days without frost, and where the soil is poor, sandy, quick-drying and subject to erosion, many farmers fail. | fail | {
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Throughout the Adirondack region abandoned farm homes and wild orchards bear ghostly testimony that their owners met defeat. | bear | {
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Mr. Clark found that orthodox procedures of deep plowing, use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides, plus the application of conservation principles of rotation and contouring, did not prevent sheet erosion in the potato fields and depreciation of the soil. | found | {
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Mr. Clark found that orthodox procedures of deep plowing, use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides, plus the application of conservation principles of rotation and contouring, did not prevent sheet erosion in the potato fields and depreciation of the soil. | prevent | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | give up | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | required | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | said | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | reminiscing | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | experienced | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | began | {
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`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' and `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems. | reading | {
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`` Louis Bromfield 's writings excited me as a conservationist ''. | excited | {
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By 1952 he was convinced he would no longer spray. | was | {
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He locked his equipment in a cabinet where it still remains. | locked | {
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He locked his equipment in a cabinet where it still remains. | remains | {
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After reading `` Plowman 's Folly '' by Edward H. Faulkner, he stopped plowing. | reading | {
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After reading `` Plowman 's Folly '' by Edward H. Faulkner, he stopped plowing. | stopped | {
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The basis for compost materials already existed on the school farm with a stable of animals for the riding program, poultry for eggs, pigs to eat garbage, a beef herd and wastes of all kinds. | existed | {
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The basis for compost materials already existed on the school farm with a stable of animals for the riding program, poultry for eggs, pigs to eat garbage, a beef herd and wastes of all kinds. | eat | {
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Separate pails were kept in the kitchen for coffee grounds and egg shells. | kept | {
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All these materials and supplementary manure and other fertilizers from neighboring dairy and poultry farms made over 40 tons of finished compost a year. | made | {
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It was applied with a compost shredder made from a converted manure spreader. | applied | {
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Years of patient application of compost and leaf mulching has changed the structure of the soil and its water-holding capacity. | changed | {
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Sniffing its sweet smell and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consistency, he pointed to the nearby driveway and said, `` This soil used to be like that hard packed road over there ''. | Sniffing | {
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Sniffing its sweet smell and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consistency, he pointed to the nearby driveway and said, `` This soil used to be like that hard packed road over there ''. | show | {
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Sniffing its sweet smell and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consistency, he pointed to the nearby driveway and said, `` This soil used to be like that hard packed road over there ''. | pointed | {
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Sniffing its sweet smell and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consistency, he pointed to the nearby driveway and said, `` This soil used to be like that hard packed road over there ''. | said | {
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`` People and soils respond slowly '', says Walter Clark, `` but the time has now come when the gardens produce delicious long-keeping vegetables due to this enrichment program. | respond | {
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`` People and soils respond slowly '', says Walter Clark, `` but the time has now come when the gardens produce delicious long-keeping vegetables due to this enrichment program. | says | {
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`` People and soils respond slowly '', says Walter Clark, `` but the time has now come when the gardens produce delicious long-keeping vegetables due to this enrichment program. | come | {
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`` People and soils respond slowly '', says Walter Clark, `` but the time has now come when the gardens produce delicious long-keeping vegetables due to this enrichment program. | produce | {
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No chemical fertilizers and poisonous insecticides and fungicides are used ''. | used | {
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The garden supplies enough carrots, turnips, rutabagas, potatoes, beets, cabbage and squash to store for winter meals in the root cellar. | store | {
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There is never enough corn, peas or strawberries. | is | {
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Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future. | use | {
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Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future. | grown | {
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Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future. | watched | {
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Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future. | hopes | {
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Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future. | allow | {
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Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future. | do | {
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A new project planned is the use of Bio-Dynamic Starter. | planned | {
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A new project planned is the use of Bio-Dynamic Starter. | is | {
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`` After the soil, the kitchen '', says Mr. Clark. | says | {
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The first major change was that of providing wholewheat bread instead of white bread. | was | {
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`` Adults take a long time to convince and you are thwarted if you try to push ''. | take | {
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`` Adults take a long time to convince and you are thwarted if you try to push ''. | try | {
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At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves. | was | {
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`` You can n't make French toast with whole-wheat bread '', was an early complaint. | make | {
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`` You can n't make French toast with whole-wheat bread '', was an early complaint. | was | {
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Of course they learned in time that they not only could use whole-wheat bread, but the children liked it better. | learned | {
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Of course they learned in time that they not only could use whole-wheat bread, but the children liked it better. | use | {
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Of course they learned in time that they not only could use whole-wheat bread, but the children liked it better. | liked | {
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Mrs. Clark, as house manager, planned the menus and cared for the ordering. | planned | {
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Mrs. Clark, as house manager, planned the menus and cared for the ordering. | cared | {
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Then Miss Lillian Colman came from Vermont to be kitchen manager. | came | {
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Then Miss Lillian Colman came from Vermont to be kitchen manager. | be | {
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Today whole grains are freshly ground every day and baked into bread. | ground | {
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