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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Photograph by Bcitlcr 

 MARION 



has been found the true answer to the stay-on-the-farm 

 idea. The ambitious young man or woman will not 

 remain in the country where comforts are denied them 

 and where advantages of 

 education and social life 

 are few ; but they will be 

 glad to "farm" in the city. 

 The war garden has 

 opened the way. By this 

 means almost everyone be- 

 comes a food producer. 



Increasing prices will 

 make it desirable to the in- 

 dividual, and the growing 

 demand of the nations will 

 make it desirable from the 

 country's point of view, 

 that everyone help to feed 

 himself. The readjustment 

 which must come out of 

 the war will call for Her- 

 culean powers as great as 

 those which it has been 

 necessary to put forth dur- 

 ing the terrible struggle against the materialism and 

 militarism of Germany. This reconstruction work, 

 therefore, will 

 call for every 

 bit of man- 

 power that can 

 be spared. It 

 will be a ques- 

 t i on not of 

 months but of 

 years before 

 this upbuilding 

 has been com- 

 pleted. In 

 France and 

 Belgium and 

 Poland and 

 Italy and Rus- 

 sia and other 

 European 

 countries the 

 rebuilding of 

 cities and 

 churches, rail- 

 roads and 

 bridges, docks 

 and roads; of 

 houses and 

 barns : the re- 

 making of 

 trench -scarred 

 and shell-torn 

 farms, and 

 many other 

 big works 

 must be per- 



CLAIMS THE CHAMPIONSHIP 



The Kiwanis Club and the Boy Scouts, at Marion, Indiana, got together 

 to see what could be done, and as a result Marion claims the war garden 

 championship of the universe. Lewis de Wolf reports to the National 

 War Garden Commission one garden to every two people. The picture 

 shows the luncheon tables at which the season end was celebrated. 

 The affair was strictly a war garden luncheon. 



made up. Cities will need 



will keep the workers of the world busy. 



This is the garden of an employe of the Eastman Kodak Company, at Rochester, and gives a fine example 

 of what can be done with little space. Here every inch of the side yard has been put to work. 



formed. But elsewhere there will be required much 

 new work. 



In the United States, for instance, thousands of mi'es 



of road which have been 

 given the hardest kind of 

 usage with nothing more 

 than the most superficial 

 repair, will have to be com- 

 pletely rebuilt. The day of 

 the heavy motor truck as 

 a means of transportation 

 between city and city has 

 come to stay, and with it 

 there must be a strengthen- 

 ing of roads. This is one 

 of the great tasks awaiting 

 the returning army of men 

 from the battlefield. The 

 construction of new build- 

 ings in our cities which has 

 been checked on account 

 of war-time need of ma- 

 terial and men, must be 

 resumed and lost time 

 many improvements which 

 In these and 

 a hundred 

 other ways 

 there will be 

 steady call for 

 the men re- 

 leased from 

 strictly war 

 work. 



These facts 

 point to the in- 

 creasing value 

 of the war 

 garden. It will 

 be just as im- 

 portant a fac- 

 tor in the life 

 of the nation 

 and the com- 

 munity after 

 the war as it 

 has been dur- 

 ing the war. 

 This need will 

 last for many 

 years ; and by 

 that time the 

 value of the 

 project will be 

 so firmly es- 

 tablished as a 

 peace measure 

 that it will 

 c o n t i nue in- 

 definitely. It 



"EVERY INCH PUT TO WORK" 



