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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



is gained of the great patriotic service which the back 

 yard and vacant lot tillers are performing. 



From coast to coast they are lined up. There is a 

 democracy about this army which makes it truly inspir- 

 ing. It includes in its ranks men and women of wealth 

 and prominent social position and workers in our mills, 

 mines and factories ; women who have passed the age of 

 four score and young college girls ; veterans of the civil 

 war and school children of tender years ; in fact, people 

 of every class 

 and age. 



Industrial and 

 manufacturing 

 concerns of all 

 sorts are tak- 

 ing an espe 

 dally active 

 part in the war 

 garden cam- 

 paign this year. 

 Hundreds o f 

 them in ail 

 parts o f the 

 United States 

 are helping 

 theiremployees 

 in this way to 

 serve them- 

 selves andtheir 

 government at 

 the same time. 

 The compara- 

 tively small 

 number of 

 plants which 

 had gardens ' 

 last season has 

 grown into a 

 formidable list. 

 Those that had 

 gardens last 

 year have gone 

 into the work 

 more intensive- 

 ly this year, while the encouraging reports from these 

 concerns have inspired other companies everywhere to 

 start a similar undertaking. This report from one of the 

 plants where war gardening was conducted last year for 

 the employees is typical of many others. It says : 



"Besides the material gain, the garden work promoted 

 a fine spirit of democracy and fellowship among the men. 

 The president of the company and each one connected 

 with it down to the humblest employee had a plot, and 

 officers and employees, working together as they did, 

 found mutual interests and fellowship therein." 



The United States Steel Corporation, in a report to the 

 National War Garden Commission on the plans for this 

 season, stated that many of its subsidiary companies had 

 found the garden work ' among the employees highly 



"HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES" 



This is the motto which might well be given to this beautiful front lawn of a New Haven, Connecticut, 

 home. The vegetables which are growing around the Italian marble fountain breathe an Americanism and 

 a love of liberty which is above any artificial decoration. The next picture shows the garden more fully 

 developed. 



satisfactory and had arranged to extend it and carry it 

 on more intensively this year. In 1917 at its variou:. 

 subsidiaries, according to the report, there were planted 

 a total of 18,451 war gardens. Here is the statement 

 from one of the companies, the American Sheet and Tin 

 Plate Company : 



"In all there were 54 acres planted and cultivated. The 

 estimated valuation of all vegetables raised is about 

 $10,974. There were many mill gardens cultivated and 



it is reported 

 that employees 

 were very en- 

 thusiastic and 

 much good has 

 been accom- 

 plished by this 

 means." 



At the Car- 

 negie Steel 

 Company, Min- 

 go Junction, 

 Ohio, "plots 

 were taken by 

 men in all 

 classes of em- 

 ployment, la- 

 borers, skilled 

 operators, 

 clerks and ex- 

 ecutives, a 

 large number 

 of them with- 

 out previous 

 experience. A 

 complete vari- 

 ety of produce 

 was raised. 

 Much spirit 

 and rivalry de- 

 veloped among 

 the gardeners, 

 this being in- 

 creased by the 

 prizes offered. 

 In spite of the fact that the river flooded twice, two of 

 the prizes were taken by workers in the flooded area." 

 The plots showed a general average of excellence of more 

 than 80 per cent, and only one was marked a failure. 



Word comes from Arizona that the Inspiration Con- 

 solidated Copper Company, whose employees had 217 

 acres of gardens last year "the largest war garden in 

 the world," it was claimed has increased the area this 

 year. J. R. Sandige, gardening expert from the Uni- 

 versity of Arizona College of Agriculture, is again giv- 

 ing instructions to the miners in the work. The General 

 Electric Company, Schnectady, New York ; the Ameri- 

 can Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio; the Oliver 

 Chilled Plow Company, South Bend, Indiana ; the New 

 York and Pennsylvania Company ; the Universal Port- 



