APPLE BOX REqUIREivlENTS IN THE N.Y.,»N.E« AREA 



A survey of the apple'box requirements in the N.Y.-N.E. area indicates 

 that 9,500,000 new boxes vail be needed. Fruit societies and state officials ,• 

 present the following estimate: Itoine - 600,000, N.H. - 600,000, Vt. - 350,000, 

 Llass. - 2,000,000, R.I. - 100, OCO, Conn. - 428,000, N. Y. - 5,433,500. 

 Total - 9,511,500. Allowing a keg of nails per 1000 boxes, about 9,500 kegs 

 of nails will be needed. The National Apple Institute has been given these 

 figures to present to the Vj'ar Production Board, 



VICTORY GARDENS 



The Victory Garden is the very spot on which a major conflic* of the 

 war is being decided - the battle for food, health, and security. All ir>di- 

 cations are that this is another bftttle that is going to go the right way 

 during the coming months. According to reports there were around 15 million 

 Victory gardens last summer. Qpite a few of them were on farms that had never 

 before grown a garden. 



As you no doubt know, the 1942 Victory Garden campaign was a success 

 in part because it was aided by extremely favorable weather. To come up to 

 last year's record the 1943 Victory Garden campaign calls for bigger and better 

 gardens and more of them. Many of these gardens will have to produce all the 

 vegetables, particularly tomatoes, leafy green vegetables and yellow vegeta- 

 bles needed for the family's entire yearly needs. Our armed forces and our 

 allies have already spoken for over half of our 1943 output of canned vegetables. 



How true is the statement of the famous general who said, "An army 

 travels on its stomach." A soldier needs plenty of food if he is to do a 

 good job of fighting. V7e on the home front need plenty of food, if we are 

 going to produce food for the soldiers and if we are going to produce the 

 munitions and machines which the soldiers need for winning battles. Yes, all 

 of us vdth plenty of food under our belts can do a much better job. 



In 1942, war activities took 1Z% of our total food production. In 

 1943 it is estimated that these same war activitiee will take 25^^. Tv/enty-five 

 per cent amounts to one meal in every four. Nov; that doesn't mean that we 

 will be short of one meal out of every four. By rationing we will have enough 

 •feo keep us from going hungry but there is very likely to be a shortage of cer- 

 tain essential foods unless something is done. 



In Massachusetts something is being done. Already Governor Saltonstall 

 has appointed a Home Garden Committee to work on this problem of food production. 

 The job of the committee is to promote home vegetable gardens in every city, 

 town» and community in Massachusetts. Last year we had in Massachusetts hun- 

 dreds of Victory Gardens but this year we are going to have thousands of Victory 

 Gardens if this committee has anything to say about it. 



Now that's just where you come in. The food that you produce in your 

 back yard garden may be the very food that will fill the empty spot in our na- 

 tional market basket. Tomatoes and beans and corn and beets and carrots and 

 cabbage, and go on through the list - if these are produced in the home garden, 

 they will supply the family with vegetables during the summer months and the 

 extra vegetables produced at home can be canned for use during the vanter months. 

 Then your family will be able to laugh at any food shortage which might develop, 



G. 0, Oleson 



