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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



not he induced to work before seven o'clock, but with 

 the long evening, produced by this law, those whose 

 labor have been induced to work additional hours at 

 night where the exigencies of the occasion demanded 

 it. Without question this bill has been more helpful 

 in the great war work in which this nation is engaged 

 than any other one thing." 



The coming of peace means the release from a bondage 

 of shortage and suffering of hundreds of millions of 

 peoples who have been compelled while war shut their 

 harbors and checked their commerce, to shift as best 

 they could on short rations. The starvation of millions 

 of human beings was the result. The lifting of the ban 

 with the cessation of battle and blockade brings into the 

 market for food supplies countless millions who have 

 been denied sufficient daily bread for years. With a 

 steady demand from such sources years will be required 



scanty mouthfuls of this necessity because of the impos- 

 sibility of reaching them on account of German blockade 

 or because of the knowledge that the food if shipped to 

 them would in all likelihood fall into the hands of the 

 Central Powers. 



Just as they have been doing during the war, there- 

 fore, war gardens must continue their merciful work of 

 helping to supply the food needs of the world. They 

 will be called on to add as much as possible to their 

 productive capacity because of the new mouths to be fed. 

 It is estimated that there are more than 100,000,000 

 people who will be included in the number of those to 

 be helped in this way. War Gardening assumes a new 

 phase and a new motive, therefore, in this service it 

 must render. It is offered a new opportunity to show 

 its power to help. There is no question but that the 

 war gardeners, realizing this high need for their work, 



Photograph by Western Newspaper Union 



THE COMMANDING GENERAL HELPS PICK BEANS 



Like all good general! Hugh L. Scott does not ask his men to do anything he would not do, so the commander at Camp Dix does a little plain 

 and fancy siring bean picking for the "soldiers of the soil." In the meantime Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden 

 Commission (just hack of General Scott), tells Rr. J. H. McNeil, of the New Jersey State Department of Agriculture, that they are mighty 

 fine beans. 



before the food stocks of the various nations can be 

 restored to anything like a normal condition and before 

 some surplus can be established in their warehouses 

 which will prevent the possibility of famine. The United 

 States and the Allied nations will have before them an 

 immense task during the busy reconstruction days. They 

 are to be called on not only to feed their own people, but 

 those of many other nations. Their own workers who 

 will be occupied with the rebuilding of thousands of 

 ruined cities, towns, docks, railroads, bridges and with 

 a hundred other big tasks, must be fed. In addition as 

 much food as can be spared must be sent to those 

 oppressed peoples who have been denied more than 



will continue to labor as they have in the past to supple- 

 ment the world's food supply. 



But it is not only the new peoples of the world who 

 will make the increase in food production necessary. 

 Great quantities of supplies will be just as essential in 

 the other countries, in France, England, Italy and the 

 United States, where immense after-the-war tasks are 

 waiting to be done. The release of millions of soldiers 

 from the battlefront will not, like the waving of some 

 magic wand, bring about an immediate re-establishment 

 of pre-war conditions as far as food is concerned. Some 

 of these men will reutrn at once to the farm ; others 

 will be help in other ways ; but the vast majority of them 



