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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



war garden at Camp Dix, New Jersey, adjoins the base 

 hospital and potatoes and other vegetables were growing 

 during the season of 1918 right up to the sun porches 

 on which some of the invalids had to sit in their wheel 

 chairs. 



Sailors cannot grow vegetables at sea. They would 

 hardly find it possible to cultivate a war garden on a 

 wave-washed battleship or a swift-speeding destroyer. 

 But to overcome this handicap a movement was started 

 throughout the United Kingdom to give these men a 



of 300,000 pounds of fresh vegetables and fruits 

 were being furnished to the British Navy, which meant 

 a distribution of about one and a half pounds per week 

 per man. In speaking of this work and its value, Rear 

 Admiral Lionel Halsey, third sea lord of the Admiralty, 

 said: 



"Those associated with the Vegetable Products Com- 

 mittee can happily feel that this work is of priceless 

 value, for without a vegetable food the men of the fleet 

 could not have so thoroughly performed their work in 



THEY CAN THE KAISER AT THE CAMERA WORKS 



Miss Tillie Bafdwin won the blue ribbon for this work and was awarded the National Capitol Prize Certificate by the National War Garden 

 Commission. Not only did employes of the Eastman Kodak Company make some new records in war gardening, but they held a county fair 

 and had competitions for the best canned vegetables. 



supply of fresh vegetables whenever they get to port. 

 Navy vegetable rations consist of potatoes only and a 

 few other dried of canned products which can be kept 

 a long time and stored in small space. On this account 

 an organization which soon had 800 branches and col- 

 lecting depots throughout the United Kingdom was form- 

 ed to provide fresh vegetables for the men of the grand 

 fleet. Headquarters were established in London, with 

 Admiral Lord Beresford as president and the patrons 

 included many prominent people, but its members rank 

 from the owners of large estates who contribute regular 

 supplies weekly to the small schoolboy whose labors 

 on his 10-foot plot aggregate whole. It was not long 

 after the work got under way before a weekly average 



the" past; nor will they be able to do so in the future 

 without a continuance of this splendid work as effeciently 

 and as generously as in the past. Its value may be real- 

 ized when it is stated that these supplies are an invalu- 

 able factor in keeping the men in good health and 

 fitness." 



What is true in the case of the stalwart men of the 

 British Navy is true of all other members of society, of 

 high and low degree. There is need for vegetable food. 

 The body is kept in better condition if it does not depend 

 too largely on a meat diet. War gardening will add 

 greatly to the proportion of greens which will enter into 

 the diet of the American people. It is well that this is 

 so, for with the steady rise in the price of meat it is one 



