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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



community." Community canneries and kitchens in the 

 United States have been of wonderful assistance in help- 

 ing to care for the surplus garden crops and have pre- 

 vented waste. In some 

 cities "moving kitchens" 

 have been established in 

 automobiles and have trav- 

 eled about from one sec- 

 tion of the city to another, 

 and into the suburbs or 

 nearby villages, giving dem- 

 onstrations to the war gar- 

 deners and housewives on 

 the conservation of food 

 by canning and drying and 

 distributing helpful litera- 

 ture. One of these trucks 

 which was used in Boston 

 as a flying Mercury of con- 

 servation, was equipped 

 with every kitchen con- 

 venience and necessity, in- 

 cluding a four-burner stove 

 with detached oven. 



In school houses and 

 church kitchens, in build- 

 ings provided by manufac- 

 turing concerns for their employees and in temporarily 

 fitted up store rooms, as well as in "plants" of many 

 other descriptions, community canning of vegetables has 



HOW THE WAR GARDENERS 

 ANSWERED 



War Gardeners of the United States have run 

 up a total of five million, two hundred eighty-five 

 thousand, home food-producing plots according 

 to revised figures tabulated by the National War 

 Garden Commission after a nation-wide inquiry. 

 This is an increase of fifty-one per cent over 1917. 

 The figures show an increase of 385,000 gardens 

 over the preliminary figures given out by the Com- 

 mission in July. As compared with figures of 1917 

 the increase is estimated to be 1,785,000 gardens. 



The value of the product of these war gardens 

 will be $525,000,000, exceeding by fifty per cent 

 that of 1917 which was valued at $350,000,000. 

 This increase is due to two things; the experience 

 gained in last year's work, which was the first for 

 many people; and second, the intensive campaign 

 this year and the fine co-operation between em- 

 ployer and employee. In thousands of cases acres 

 and acres of gardens were planted with the help 

 of business concerns which turned the land over 

 to their employees. 



been practiced this year. In Dallas, Texas, they put up 

 17,500 cans in the first few weeks after the cannery was 

 opened, while at Temple in the same state, they canned 



one ton of black-eyed peas 

 the first week the com- 

 munity cannery was in op- 

 eration. 



The women who are do- 

 ing the canning and the 

 drying this year will be 

 taking a more active part 

 next season in the produc- 

 tion end of the war gar- 

 den work. They have giv- 

 en their support and their 

 encouragement to this part 

 of the movement; and in 

 a number of cases have, 

 actually gone out into the 

 garden and done the cul- 

 tivating. One of the most 

 interesting instances which 

 will lead to increased de- 

 velopment in 1919, was that 

 of a group of school teach- 

 ers and girls who worked 

 in offices who went up to 

 northern New Hampshire and raised the vegetables in 

 a three-acre war garden for a large summer hotel, "The 

 Balsams," at Dixville Notch. So well-satisfied was the 



IN THE WINTER THEY TEACH SCHOOL 



Way up near the Canadian border in New Hampshire these girls cultivated a big war garden this summer which supplied vegetables to "The 

 Balsams," a big hotel at Dixville Notch. So well satisfied was David B. Plummer, manager, with the work of the girls that he is planning to 

 extend it next year. Thus a new field is opened for women who teach school and work in offices. 



