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need and the pressing importance of this work, and by 

 giving out also instruction books from the Commission 

 telling the city farmer how to proceed. 



Praise must be extended to business as a whole for 

 the part it has taken in aiding in the cultivation of war 

 gardens by the nation's army of workers. A list of the 

 concerns which have helped in this way would be prac- 

 tically all inclusive. Among the big nationally known 

 companies which have been especially active in this 

 form of war work are the Oliver Chilled Plow Company, 

 Du Pont de Nemours & Company, the American Roll- 

 ing Mill Company, the American Woolen Company, the 

 General Electric Company, the United States Steel 

 Corporation, the American Optical Company, the 

 American Cast Iron Pipe Company, the American 

 Steel and Wire Company, the J. I. Case Plow Works, 

 the Universal Portland Cement Company, the Oliver 

 Iron Mining Company, the Ford Motor Company, the 

 Solvay Process Company and the Eastman Kodak 

 Company. 



Employes at the various mills of the American Wool- 

 en Company planted in 1918 a total of 1,229 acres of 

 gardens; and Mr. William M. Wood, the president of 

 this big manufacturing concern which made large 

 quantities of clothing to help keep the American sol- 

 diers warm, expressed his gratification at this other 

 way in which the employes were working to help their 

 country. 



As to some of the benefits to the workmen themselves, 

 the moral strength which they gain from their employ- 



