How the Stay-at-Homes Can Provide the Sinews 



America turns to the soil 

 in earnest. Even women 

 are responding to the call 

 for active service. Mrs. 

 Ruth Litt, the wealthy 

 suffragist, has turned over 

 her 135-acre farm for cul- 

 tivation, the work to be 

 done entirely by women. 

 The photograph below 

 shows Mrs. Litt, Mrs. 

 Grace Homer, Mrs. 

 George Baxter, Jr., and 

 Mrs. Charles Gould at work 





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Three hundred acres of land in East Potomac Park, Washington, were given over entirely 

 to the Boy Scouts Brigades by the Government to be cultivated as a vegetable garden 



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