THE FUTURE OF WAR GARDENING 



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of the important factors which will help the average 

 American family to economize on the market bills. The 

 value of this 

 saving will 

 make itself felt 

 in a hundred 

 directions. The 

 individual will 

 be able to pro- 

 vide for him- 

 self and his 

 family some of 

 the comforts 

 and advant- 

 ages which he 

 would be com- 

 pelled to fore- 

 go were it not 

 for the saving 

 he has affect- 

 ed through 

 his back yard 

 vegetable plot. 

 This saving 

 enables h i m 

 to procure 

 for his chil- 

 dren added educational advantages, and for the entire 

 family some of the home enjoyments which are so vital 

 to the continued happiness and the ultimate welfare of 

 a nation. The future of war gardening, therefore, is 



WHILE THE FLYERS DODGED IN AND OUT 



The Pennsylvania Railroad conducted a division to division garden campaign and placed war garden 

 primers of the National War Garden Commission in the hands of every superintendent and thousands 

 of its employes. This garden is on the Tyrone, Pennsylvania, division and the smoke of a passing 

 train may be seen at the right. 



assured. It is such an important economic gain and its 

 benefits in other ways are so numerous that the army 



of home food 

 producers 

 themselves will 

 be its own 

 strongest and 

 most ardent 

 c h a m p i o ns. 

 Roth by prac- 

 tice and by 

 precept they 

 will continue 

 to spread the 

 gospel of 

 "food f. o. b. 

 the kitchen 

 door." Just as 

 the army 

 which has 

 fousfht for jus- 

 t i c e, democ- 

 racy and equal 

 rights of man- 

 kind will see 

 to it that these 

 principles are 

 maintained in every part of the world, so the soldiers 

 of the soil in city, town and village, millions of whom 

 have tested the worth of war gardening, will be its 

 future champions and defenders. 



"WALNUT TREE PLANTING DAY" 



TT 1 RID AY, October 18, was officially designated in a 

 - 1 - proclamation by Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsyl- 

 vania as "Walnut Tree Planting Day." The Governor 

 urged school children, boys and girls scouts, sportsmen 

 farmers and "other well disposed citizens" to plant on 

 that date. 



The proclamation called attention to the great impor- 

 tance of black walnut wood and to the scarcity now 

 existing, while it also referred to the value of the nuts 

 for food for game and to the shade properties of the tree. 



Planting of both black and white walnut trees is urged 

 "to the end that we may always have in this common- 

 wealth a generous growth of this most useful tree, thus 

 insuring to the nation and to industry necessary lumber, 

 to the wild life in our forests a generous supply of food 

 and to the people the blessing that attends the planting 

 of trees generous shade, pure air, regulated water sup- 

 ply and spiritual administration." 



PLANT TREES AND SAVE TAXES 



/"^ AN you imagine living in a taxless city ? But there 

 ^ really are such places. For instance : There is 

 Orson, in Sweden. The municipality has its ordinary 

 city expenses, but it imposes no taxes. Moreover, the 

 local railway is free to every citizen, and there is no 

 charge of telephone service, schools, libraries, and the 

 like. 



All this is due to the wisdom of a former generation, 

 who planted trees on the available ground, with the 

 result that during the last thirty years the town authori- 

 ties have sold over 100,000 worth of young trees and 

 timber, while judicious replantings have provided for 

 a similar" income in the future. 



Then there is Montmarlon, in the Midi, France. Here 

 not only are there no taxes, but the timbers on the com- 

 munal lands are sufficient to grant each person a small 

 annuity. 



The man who would like to burn coal because it 

 is easier and handier, but who thinks enough of 

 his country and the boys over there to shoulder 

 his ax, brave the winter wind, and go out to cut 

 wood in order to save coal, is helping to win the 

 war. 



Methods of cutting cordwood are discussed in a 

 circular, "Emergency Fuel from the Farm Wood- 

 land," issued by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture to aid farmers in helping to meet the 

 fuel shortage. 



