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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



of the movement by the Norton Company of Worcester, 

 Massachusetts, whose employes last year cultivated ioo 

 acres of company land on which they raised between $40,- 

 000 and $50,000 worth of food, in addition to that which 

 more than 2,000 workers grew in their home gardens : 

 "The Norton Community Shop gardening activities 

 are no longer an experiment. On the contrary they are 

 an unqualified 

 success, and the 

 Norton Agri- 

 cultural Socie- 

 ty is looked 

 upon by the 

 company and 

 its employes as 

 a permanent in- 

 stitution. Many 

 who have never 

 handled the 

 spading fork 

 and the hoe are 

 becoming en- 

 thusiastic ama- 

 teur gardeners. 

 Far from turn- 

 ing a good 

 workman into 

 a poor farmer, 

 one of the most 

 i m p ortant re- 

 sults of the 

 Norton garden 

 activities has 

 been the mak- 

 ing of good workmen into better workmen. The proces- 

 sion of men who at the end of a summer afternoon in 

 the shop tramp over the hill to enjoy an hour of vigorous 

 exercise out of doors is matched the following morning 



by the returning ranks of clear-eyed, vigorous men ready 

 to engage with equal enthusiasm in the regular vocational 

 work which they have chosen. The harvest time, which 

 brings to the man the tangible evidence of what intelligent 

 effort, persistence and industry will produce in the garden, 

 gives him a clear realization that the exercise of the same 

 qualities in the shop is as certain to bring its reward. 



Better still, as 



the officers of 

 the c o m p any 

 and its men 

 busy t h em- 

 selves in their 

 gardens side by 

 side, there 

 arises the spirit 

 of c o m r a de- 

 ship among all 

 who embark 

 together on 

 some great ad- 

 venture." 



This idea 

 is s p r e a ding 

 around the 

 world and oth- 

 er nations are 

 coming to the 

 United States 

 to learn of the 

 benefits which 

 have come to 

 this country as 

 a result of the 

 The inhabitants 



LOOK WHAT TRENTON DID 



Some of the finest war gardens in the United States were in the capita! of New Jersey, where the Trenton 

 Food Garden Commission was active in keeping up interest in home food growing. Is this not a wonderful 

 improvement on an ash-covered lot? 



community and shop garden movement, 

 of the Philippines have entered into this work with an 

 enthusiastic determination to improve their own condi- 

 tion at the same time that they are performing a broad 



GAVE UP GOLF FOR GARDENING 



That is what W. E. Nemits, assistant general claims agent of the Chicago Surface Lines, did when he saw the need of raising food for the boys 

 "over there." His report to the National War Garden Commission of Washington shows that although he had never done any gardening betore 

 he made a fine record. Individuals and communities everywhere are planning to make the Victory Garden Campaign this year a Digger 

 uccess than was the war garden campaign last year. 



