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WHAT ONE CLEVELAND FACTORY ACHIEVED IN ITS WAR GARDEN. 

 This is not a Kansas Ranch, as might be suspected from the broad acreage devoted to the raising of farm produce. It is the 

 war garden of the Otis Steel Company's employes, on vacant land near the company's big manufacturing plant, in Cleveland. 

 This is one of the gardens in which Mayor Davis and Chairman Schneider take much pride. It is typical of the factory 

 gardens in one of America's greatest industrial centers. Such gardens have been made throughout the manufacturing district 

 of Cleveland and other cities and their contribution to the nation's food supply is of tremendous volume. This garden in- 

 cludes thrifty crops of such vegetables as cabbage, corn, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower, egg-plant, celery, beets, cucum- 

 bers and kohlrabi. 



ANOTHER WAR GARDEN WHICH HAS THRIVED ON A CLEVELAND LAWN. 

 Louis F. Krieg is also a Cleveland home gardener who does not have to sit around waiting for contributions from the neigh- 

 bors. From the looks of the garden here pictured the Krieg family has enough for the entire neighborhood. As a result of 

 converting his vacant land into a new planting area Mr. Krieg has a crop which ranges througli the alphabet from beets to 

 turnips, and embraces cauliflower, onions, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, Swiss chard, corn and cucumbers. According to a report 

 received from George A. Schneider, chairman of the Mayor's War Garden Committee, this garden is one of the thousands 

 which have made Cleveland one of the most important centers of city farming during the war emergecy. 



