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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



OUT WHERE UNCLE JOE LIVES 



The Damall boys. Gene and Jack, who are neighbors of the Honorable Joseph Gurney Cannon in Danville, Illinois, and know him familiarly as Uncle Joe, 

 have gone in exclusively for corn in their joint garden, thereby setting at defiance a precept of scientific farming which prescribes mixed crops. However, 

 Gene and Jack seem to be doing well with their corn, which is to be expected in the corn belt. The Civic Federation of Danville is behind the gardening 

 movement in that city. This year many other civic organizations are aiding the home gardeners. 



the forefront of the food 

 preparedness campaign 

 with a new method of stim- 

 ulating interest in the work. 

 Three thousand vacant lots, 

 in addition to back yard 

 gardens, are to be tilled by 

 individuals in the Minne- 

 sota city. At the end of 

 summer, after all the gar- 

 dens have been harvested, a 

 crop festival will be held to 

 which every amateur gar- 

 dener will be asked to bring 

 specimens of the product he 

 has raised. Prizes and blue 

 ribbons will be offered for 

 the best samples shown. 

 Several other cities are to 

 take up the Minneapolis 

 plan which is expected to 

 develop the same spirit of 

 rivalry among vacant lot 

 and back yard tillers which 

 exists in farming communi- 

 ties through the medium of 

 the county fair. 



As a concrete example of 

 what may be accomplished 



JACK AND THE BEAN STALK 



Jack's name is Mike last name Kelly and his curly hair is red. From which 

 it may be gathered that his nature is energetic. Private affairs took him away 

 from his bean stalks so much last year that from an investment of $4.68 his 

 food garden produced only $18.56. His next-door neighbor in the school garden 

 tract a girl, too profited so much by Mike's horrible example that she made 

 one of the best gardens in town. 



through home gardening, 

 the National Emergency 

 Food Garden Commission 

 points out that, for instance, 

 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

 in the summer of 1914, 

 nearly five hundred school 

 children tilled 12 acres in 

 back yards, growing $2,500 

 worth of vegetables in the 

 three summer months. In 

 the summer of 1916, 718 

 pupils tilled 13 acres in back 

 yards, and the vegetables 

 grown aggregated in value 

 $3,786. In Charlotte, North 

 Carolina, 168 children tilled 

 7 acres and produced $1,225 

 worth of vegetables. In 

 Asheville, the same state, 

 school authorities prevailed 

 upon the children to follow 

 similar pursuits, with the 

 result that the little folk 

 produced considerable food- 

 stuffs. So it has been in 

 Raleigh and Lexington, 

 North Carolina ; in Augusta 

 and Atlanta, Georgia; 



