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Photograph, Bureau of Agriculture, Philipi^ine Islands 

 EGGPLANT AND LOMBOY 



This is one corner of a vegetable garden at Singalong, Manila, where the 

 home food production campaign has borne fruit. 



community welfare schemes. This includes the planting 

 of gardens. All these forces realize the binding strength 

 of the home. Love of home reflects love of country and 

 inspires the spirit that produces real patriotism. Lincoln 

 said : "Let not him who is homeless pull down the house 

 of another, but let him labor diligently to build one for 

 himself." 



America, the land of homes ; America, the land of 

 gardens ! That is a "consummation devoutly to be 

 wished," a goal worth striving for. The nearer we come 

 to that aim, the richer in things spiritual as well as 

 physical will be the nation. 



Large industrial concerns which have encouraged and 

 assisted their employes to plant gardens and to raise part 

 of their own food testify to the value of the work as a 

 stabilizer of labor and as making more contented and 

 better workmen and citizens. The National War Garden 

 Commission has received numerous reports which bear 

 out this statement. Here, for instance, is what is said 



WAR GARDEN WHERE FIRST ALFALFA IN UNITED STATES WAS GROWN 



Lorenzo S. Clark, of Salt Lake City, answered the call of Pershing to "Keep the Food Coming" by planting a war garden on land where his 

 father, in 1853, with seeds brouglit from England, planted the first alfalfa in this country. Under the direction of Walter J. Sloan, supervisor of 

 city war gardens, Salt Lake City in 1918 planted more than 8,000 home food producing plots and raised $750,000 worth of its own food Mr. Sloan 

 reports to the National War Garden Commission that they are planning for an even bigger campaign' for Victory Gardens in 1919. He says: 

 "There will be need for an additional food supply for years. The people of the United States, at least a majority of them, are just beginning 

 to learn what it means to raise their own vegetables. I believe that it would be to their benefit, war or no war, if we could instill into the 

 minds of the American people this thought — No unsightly back yards, no vacant lots. Weeds are a menace to health, so are empty cans and 

 garbage in your back yard. We want health." 



perous and the best community. One has only to look 

 at value figures of what some of the cities raised last 

 year, running into many thousands and in numerous 

 cases into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, to realize 

 what this movement means. 



Closely connected with this home food production 

 effort is the big "own-a-home" campaign which is being 

 conducted this year throughout the nation. This is being 

 stimulated by the United States Department of Labor, 

 the National Federation of Construction Industries, real 

 estate boards and chambers of commerce and various other 

 organizations which have at heart the lasting betterment 

 of the people. The Council of National Defense is now 

 utilizing the vast machinery which it built up to help 

 organize the nation for the pressing business of war, and ^ community garden group 



turning it into the channels of peace and working out »"^ "^ =" A^mucVj'^t'^havl^ mldeT wrnl?luf ^""^^^^^ '-°""''"'' 



