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do everything they possibly can in permitting their right- 

 of-way and other station grounds to be used for farming 

 and agricultural purposes ;" and from N. D. Maher, 

 regional director, Pocahontas Region, who says: "We 

 will have our agricultural agents co-operate with you in 

 connection with 

 spreading the 

 message of 

 Food F. O. B. 

 the Kitchen 

 Door. There is 

 no doubt that, 

 with all the 

 people to be 

 fed in Europe, 

 the Victory 

 Gardens are as 

 i m p o rtant as 

 the War Gar- 

 dens." Mr. Kel- 

 ley is inter- 

 viewing a num- 

 ber of these of- 

 ficials and ar- 

 ranging plans 

 for further co- 

 operation. The 

 rail roads ac- 

 tively support- 

 ed the War 

 Garden cam- 

 paign ; they 

 will assist 

 equally the Vie- 

 to r y Garden 

 campaign. 



P. S. Rids- 

 dale, secretary 

 of the Com- 

 mission, has 

 just been in 

 England at- 

 tending a War 

 Garden confer- 

 ence with food 

 officials there. 

 While the pur- 

 pose of his trip 

 to Europe was 

 prima rily in 

 the interests of 

 the American 



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methods employed there, particularly relating to garden- 

 ing by the wounded and recuperating soldiers around 

 hospitals. It is believed that much can be accomplished 

 along that line in the United States this year. Just as 

 it did last year, the Commission again in 1919 will oflfer 



any assistance 



it can render to 

 foreign coun- 

 tries in stimu- 

 1 a t i n g city 

 farming. 



That they 

 are recognizing 

 everywhere the 

 greater need 

 there will be 

 for food in 

 1 91 9, and that 

 p r e p a rations 

 are being made 

 for the cam- 

 paign, is shown 

 by n u m e rous 

 reports to the 

 C o m m ission. 

 The signing of 

 the armistice 

 did not stop 

 the r e q u e sts 

 Register Web- 

 ster, of Brook- 

 lyn, was re- 

 c e i V i n g for 

 garden permits 

 for next sea- 

 son ; and he al- 

 ready had 

 granted more 

 than a thou- 

 sand such per- 

 mits. Only one 

 person who had 

 given con sent 

 for the use of 

 his land, he 

 says, has with- 

 drawn such 

 permission be- 

 cause the war 

 is over. "Every- 

 body seems to 



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occasion to visit 

 the British Isles to offer continued co-operation on the 

 part of the National War Garden Commission in the 

 work of home food production which they are doing 

 abroad. At the same time he has been investigating 



food situation 

 will be just as acute next year and the applications for 

 War Gardens are pouring in just as steadily as if the war 

 were still on." The value of gardening will be empha- 

 sized this year in connection with the "Own a Home" 



