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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



tional War Garden Commission, has resulted in the pro- 

 duction of a crop valued at $50,000,000 or more, accord- 

 ing to the estimate of Frederick Abraham, honorary 

 chairman of the war gar- 

 den and vacant lot section 

 of the Canada Food Board. 



It is interesting to note 

 that among the industrial 

 and manufacturing con- 

 cerns throughout the coun- 

 try which have encouraged 

 and helped their employees 

 to plant war gardens and 

 to reap the harvests there- 

 from, were a large number 

 of lumber companies. From 

 the far Northwest where 

 the lumber jackies are turn- 

 ing out the big firs which 

 are going into ships and 

 the spruce which is being 

 converted into airplanes, 

 down to the Gulf Coast 

 where the cypress which 

 also is going into the ships 

 is being cut, the men are 

 serving in every way they 

 can. On this account they 

 are producing part of their own food. No one realizes 

 better than these men the demand for every railroad car 

 for essential war work ; and they know that the more 

 food there is grown close 

 to the place of consumption 

 the greater will be the re- 

 lief to the country's trans- 

 portation facilities. 



The West Coast Lumber- 

 men's Association, with 

 headquarters in Seattle, 

 through Robert B. Allen, 

 secretary, wrote to the 

 National War Garden Com- 

 mission: "Our purpose is 

 to encourage the raising of 

 fresh vegetables at the mills 

 and logging camps of this 

 state and Oregon where 

 employees are engaged in 

 the production of essential 

 war material for shipping 

 and aircraft purposes." 



And here is what they 

 are doing down in Louisi- 

 ana. Listen to what C. S. 

 Williams, vice-president of 

 the F. B. Williams Cypress 

 Company, of Patterson, 

 Louisiana, says : "Practi- 

 cally every available piece of land that we own around 

 the plant is being used for war gardens by our employees. 



WHY AMERICA WILL WIN THE WAR 



National War Garden Commission, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 Please send me recipes for canning and drying 

 or any other books that will help a mother with 

 nine little boys and girls who do all kinds of work 

 on our farm home. Thanking you, 



MRS. IDUS TAYLOR, 



R 1, Box 28, Cuthbert, Georgia. 



(This letter has a little United States flag in the corner.) 



National War Garden Commission, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 Will you send me your book on canning and 

 drying. I have a small garden and want very much 

 to preserve all surplus vegetables and save a little 

 for the coming day. I have two sons, all the 

 children that I nave, at the front and I must do all 

 I can to help our boys who are fighting in a just 

 and right cause. 



MRS. ROBERT C. THOMPSON, 



54 First St., E. Norwalk, Connecticut. 



(This letter has a service flag on the front page.) 



These youngsters have fine garden 

 their 



We are also glad to advise that there seems to be great 

 interest in home gardening throughout this entire terri- 

 tory. We have never seen the land so entirely cultivated. 



Hardly a family is with- 

 out a garden of some sort. 

 Almost every one of our 

 men have gardens, a large 

 number of them around the 

 open space of the plant. 

 The people are now plan- 

 ning a great canning cam- 

 paign." 



Many other manufac- 

 turing plants, both large 

 and small, have helped to 

 swell the vast total of hoim 

 food producing plots in tr 

 United States this yea- . 

 and on account of the many 

 benefits of war gardening 

 are planning to enlarge 

 their efforts in this direc- 

 tion next year. Among 

 other advantages war gar- 

 dening helps to stabilize la- 

 bor. Here is what Lewis F. 

 De Wolfe, secretary of the 

 Marion, Indiana, War Gar- 

 den Association, reported to the Commission : "Workers 

 here refused to leave the city to take work at higher wages 

 elsewhere because they had planted fine war gardens and 



were so proud of them they 

 would not leave them." 

 Marion, with 27,000 people, 

 boasts 14,800 war gardens. 

 Surveying the work of 

 the past season there is 

 much to be grateful for. 

 The American people have 

 gone into the home food 

 production and conserva- 

 tion work with an industry 

 and an enthusiasm which 

 is worthy of the country's 

 best principles. Justice and 

 the world's freedom de- 

 pended to a great extent 

 on the efforts which they 

 put forth in this direction. 

 They have answered the 

 call of bleeding Belgium, 

 throttled by a merciless 

 tyrant, with a sincere pur- 

 pose to wipe the monster 

 responsible for that crime 

 and for many others from 

 the face of the earth. They 

 will continue to the end un- 

 til military autocracy never more will dare to lift the 

 sword in a fruitless effort to shackle the world at its feet. 



FIRST AID TO THE WAR GARDENERS! 



s and are taking a minute off in 



work. 



