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I AMERICAN FORESTRY I 



VOL. XXIV SEPTEMBER, 1918 



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NO. 297 



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HOW THE WAR GARDENERS ANSWERED 



BY CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



PRESIDENT, NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION 



HAS the "city farmer" made good? That is the 

 question which thousands of people not only in the 

 United States but in other countries have been 

 iting to have answered for them. They have watched 

 war garden movement as it grew from a mere noth- 

 in , a dream at the beginning of the war into a nation- 

 wide effort ; and they have wondered at times how much 

 it was actually adding to the strength and the fighting 

 resources of the Nation. 



In order to answer this question it is well to make a 

 survey of what has been accomplished and take a bird's 

 eye view of the home food production and conservation 

 situation as it presents itself from coast to coast. 



Three facts are of prime importance in establishing 

 the worth of the war garden as a resource of inestimable 

 value to the United States and the Allies in this time 

 of food shortage. 



One of these is the overwhelming number of patriotic 

 Americans who have taken up the hoe to help fight 

 the foe. 



Another is the number and variety of organizations 

 that have assisted in making the work a great success. 



And the third is the enthusiasm which has been mani- 

 fested in carrying through this new project. 



Many other reasons might be mentioned to prove to 

 anybody who still might have lingering doubts, that war 



A YOUNG PATERSON PATRIOT 



Tnis js Elwood Clair Shelby, age 12, of Paterson, New Jersey, and the garden which he grew this summer. The country owes much to these 

 youthful "soldiers of the soil" who are digging in with the hoe at home while their fathers and elder brothers are going at the Boche with the 

 bayonet. 



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