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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"FOOD F. O. B THE KITCHEN DOOR" 



Just a step to the garden patch. This is the help which their war gardens are proving to the employees of the American Rolling Mill Com- 

 pany, Middlctown, Ohio. Competition is keen and the workers vie with each other to see which one can produce the finest display of vegetables. 

 and to encourage them in this the company offers a number of prizes. 



The knowl- 

 edge and the 

 beneficial exer- 

 cise which is 

 being derived 

 from gardening 

 is worth con- 

 sidering from 

 the adult's 

 point of view. 

 as well as from 

 that of the 

 child. The hour 

 spent in the 

 garden is time 

 well spent. 

 .More than 5,- 

 000,000 people 

 are learn ing 

 that this year. 



Bui in spite 

 of many rea- 

 sons which 

 might be given 

 for the value of 

 garden s 

 money saved, 

 community bet- 

 terment, addi- 



dL'. V. 



NEATH SMOKING OBELISKS OF INDUSTRY 



Scenes like this have been enacted all over the United States this year by large industrial and manu- 

 facturing concerns which are furnishing land and plowing it for war gardens for their employees. While 

 the big mills are turning out the shells and the equipment needed by the men at the front, the garden 

 plots are growing "ammunition" to provide the rations which are just as ess6ntial as guns and bullets. 



tion to a city's 

 wealth and re- 

 sources, clean- 

 ing up of un- 

 sightly lots, im- 

 proved civic 

 spirit, a finer 

 demo cracy 

 the one great 

 thought which 

 stands out in 

 letters of shin- 

 ing light be- 

 fore every war 

 gardener in the 

 United States 

 today is sum- 

 med up in these 

 four words : 

 America Needs 

 the Food. That 

 and no other 

 reason makAj 

 war gardening 

 worth while. 



The people 

 of America 

 only had to be 

 told that Amer- 



