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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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LITTLE BOPEEP IS } 



feeding her sheep } 



On the tops of the j 



greens she has grown. 



They eat cauliflower just 



six times an hour; 



They're the fattest I 

 young sheep ever 

 known. 



Miami and a large number of children have been given 

 space. The gardeners are made up of many nationalities, 

 including Italians, Mexicans, Indians, Chileans, Ger- 

 mans, Finlanders and Swedes. Over seventy per cent 

 have never had experience in this work, or at least where 

 it is necessary to irrigate, and they had to be taught. 



"The gardens were planned by C. E. Mills, general 

 manager of the company. An expert makes three trips 

 a day over the gardens to instruct the gardeners. Bulle- 

 tins and posters are placed at convenient spots in the 

 gardens which are 217 acres in area. The double crop 

 system was used. For example, squash were planted 

 among corn so that when corn came off squash covered 

 the ground. We grew most anything but need was con- 

 sidered first and 85 per cent of the ground was planted 

 to Mexican pink beans and sweet corn. Nothing goes to 

 waste and drying and canning is encouraged, especially 

 drying, for our climate permits sun drying. 



"We have opened a war garden market where the ex- 

 cess vegetables are sold for the gardeners, without cost 

 to them. Nothing is sold at this market except that 

 which is grown in the war garden. This market, I be- 

 lieve, is the first of its kind in the United States. This 

 is the largest single tract of land devoted to war gardens 

 in the west. With 217 acres under cultivation I believe 

 it is the largest in the country." 



Another high spot in the season's activities was the 



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IF OLD Mother Hubbard 

 should go to the cup- 

 board 



She'd find all the food 

 she'd desire; 

 For stored away there is 

 foodstuff to spare, 



The product of canner 

 and dryer. 



A CHARMING YOUNG 



bud named Marie 

 Wrote to Mrs. von Stuyve- 

 / sant Lee: 



"I'm begging your par- 

 don, 

 I'm working my garden 

 And can't get away for your 

 tea." 



word which reached the Commission from Laurel, Mis- 

 sissippi. In this southern community practical applica- 

 tion was given of the most efficient and reliable methods 

 of conservation and thrift. Some of the moves were the 

 substitution of motor trucks for horses for the sake of 

 saving horse feed and the cutting of wood as a blow to 

 over-reaching coal men. In a letter to the Commission 

 Mayor T. G. McCallum wrote : 



"Immediately upon the entrance of the United States 

 into the war and the Government's appeal to the people 

 to conserve and produce all products we proceeded at 

 once to motorize all departments where motor trucks 

 could be substituted for horses and disposed of the horses 

 to farmers to produce more food 'as well as to save food 

 by the introduction of the automobile. The next step 

 taken by us was to secure and plant sufficient lands to 

 corn and peas in order to produce enough corn and hay 

 to take care of all the remaining city teams, and while 

 we scarcely had time to do this, war having been declared 

 late in the spring, we are glad to say that the city will 

 make all the corn and pea-vine hay necessary to care for 

 the teams owned and used by the city in the public work. 



"As soon as this matter was out of the way we took 

 up the question of fuel for the city schools, city hall, 

 jail and other public buildings, and upon inquiry of the 

 mines or coal dealers, many of them refused to quote us 

 prices on account of the scarcity of cars, and with those 



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"THE TIME HAS COME," the seapack said, 

 "To think of growing things, 



Of corn and wheat, to 

 make our bread. 



And stuff that gar- 

 d'ning brings. 

 For we must feed our sol- 

 dier men and those of 

 foreign kings." 



