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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



OUT WHERE UNCLE JOE LIVES 



The Darnall boys, Gene and Jack, who are neighbors of the Honorable Joseph Gurney Cannon in Danville, Illinois, and know him familiarly as Uncle Joe, 

 have gone in exclusively for corn in their joint garden, thereby setting at defiance a precept of scientific farming which prescribes mixed crops. However, 

 Gene and Jack seein to be doing well with their corn, which is to be expected in the corn belt. The Civic Federation of Danville is behind the gardening 

 movement in that city. This year many other civic organizations are aiding the home gardeners. 



the forefront of the food 

 preparedness campaign 

 with a new method of stim- 

 ulating interest in the work. 

 Three thousand vacant lots, 

 in addition to back yard 

 gardens, are to be tilled by 

 individuals in the ISIinne- 

 sota city. At the end of 

 summer, after all the gar- 

 dens have been harvested, a 

 crop festival will be held to 

 which every amateur gar- 

 dener will be asked to bring 

 specimens of the product he 

 has raised. Prizes and blue 

 ribbons will be offered for 

 the be.st samples shown. 

 Several other cities are to 

 take up the Alinneapolis 

 plan which is expected to 

 develop the same spirit of 

 rivalry among vacant lot 

 and back yard tillers whlcli 

 exists in farming communi- 

 ties through the medium of Jack a.\d the bean stalk 



fVii=> r*r^iinf fail- Jack's name is Mike — last name Kelly — and his curly hair is red. From which 



tne county ISW. it may be gathered that his nature is energetic. Private affairs took him away 



Aq n rnnprf^fr* ovimnlf» nf ^^^^ '^'s bean stalks so much last year that from an investment of S4.68 his 



*"S a COncreie CXcimpie OI food garden produced only $18.56. His next-door neighbor in the school garden 



•nrViQf TmiT Uo nnr^r.m-rMah^A tract— a girl, too— profited so much by Mike's horrible example that she made 



Wnat may De aCCOmpllSnCd one of the best gardens in town. 



ihrougli home gardening, 

 the National Emergency 

 Food Garden Commission 

 j)oints out that, for instance, 

 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

 in the summer of 1914, 

 nearly five hundred school 

 children tilled 12 acres in 

 back yards, growing S2,500 

 worth of vegetables in the 

 tliree summer months. In 

 the summer of 1916, 718 

 pupils tilled 13 acres in back 

 \'ards, and the vegetables 

 grown aggregated in value 

 $3,786. In Charlotte, North 

 CaniliiKi, 168 children tilled 

 7 acres and produced $1,225 

 worth of \-egctables. In 

 Ashevillc, the same state, 

 school authorities prevailed 

 upon the children to follow 

 similar lair.suits, with the 

 rc'sult that the little folk 

 [jroduccd considerable food- 

 stuffs. So it has been in 

 Raleigh and Lexington, 

 North Carolina : in Augusta 

 and Atlanta, Georgia ; 



