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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



tion. Advertising clubs are assisting and here is the text 

 of a resolution adopted at a recent meeting of the Adver- 

 tising Club of Washington : 



Knowing That the production of food is the paramount prob- 

 lem before the world today, and 



Knowing That the President of the United States has called 

 upon us to help feed the people in the stricken areas of 

 Europe, and 



Knowing That everything possible must be done to produce 

 food as close to the place of consumption as possible ; there- 

 fore, be it 



Resolved by the Advertising Club of Washington, That its 

 members co-operate with the National War Garden Commission 

 in its campaign for Victory Gardens by using window displays 

 and garden copy wherever possible in order to 

 carry the message of Food F. O. B. the Kitchen 

 Door to the people, and be it further 



Resolved, That we urge the Associated Adver- 

 tising Clubs of the world to co-operate and that 

 this resolution be sent to them. 



The opening of the home garden drive this 



year and every succeeding year should be 



celebrated by a national holiday. It is a 



new independence day for the nation ; and the 



home soldiers of the soil should have some- 



way of expressing the freedom which they have found 

 in the garden. Of course, there is no fixed first plant- 

 ing day throughout the United States or even through- 

 out a restricted territory ; but some day might be fixed 

 which would answer the purpose of calling attention 

 in a nation-wide way to this great institution — the home 

 and community garden. Pageants and parades can be 

 arranged in the various cities. 



On the last Sunday in March the Daylight Saving Law 

 goes into effect again, just in time to give the victorv 

 gardener the advantage of the extra hour of daylight 



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ulturc. PUitippine Islands 

 IN A PHILIPPINE GARDEN 



The message of *'Food F. O. B. the Kitchen Door" has spread to the lands beyond 

 the sea; and the Filipino wards of LTncIe Sam are doing fine work in home and 

 community gardening. 



A CLEAN LOOKING PATCH 



Pupils of the Tondo intermediate school at Manila arc 

 taught gardening, as is shown by this picture, and they are 

 teaching their elders much about the work. 



every afternoon which meant so much to him last 

 year and which meant the addition of millions of 

 dollars to the nation's garden products. 



Are you going to have a part, in the harvest of 

 victory ? Will you help to conquer the new enemy, 

 Hunger, which is killing thousands of people in 

 lands across the seas? If you have not yet plant- 

 ed a Victory Garden, plan to do it today. 



PHILIP W. AYRES ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB 



TT^OR the first time in its history, the Appalachian Moun- 

 ■'• tain Club has chosen a member of the forestry pro- 

 fession to lead it. At the recent meeting of the club, 

 Philip W. Ayres, who has for years accomplished notable 

 things for forestry in the State of New Hampshire, and 

 who is the Forester of the Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests was elected President. 



The members number over 2,000. There are well- 

 developed chapters of the club in New York City and 

 in Worcester, Massachusetts, while the general mem- 

 bership is more widely extended, including several mem- 

 bers in Washington, District of Columbia. Its honorary 

 and corresponding members include the distinguished 

 mountaineers of Europe and America. 



The club has eleven forest reservations in New Hamp- 

 shire, varying in size from 1 to 300 acres, besides three 

 reservations in Massachusetts and two in Maine. It 

 maintains 54 paths in the White Mountains covering 213 

 miles. It maintains three huts of a capacity of 35 to 40 

 each in the highest parts of the White IMountains, be- 

 sides nine other camps and various other shelters at high 

 elevations above 3,000 feet and some of them above 4,000 

 feet, throughout the mountains. All of these are as 

 freely open to the tramping public as to club members. 

 The club is actively co-operating with the supervisor of 

 the White Mountain National Forest in the matter of 

 trails, telephone lines and fire lines. 



