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had our record of the last two years to refute the On 
nted this year are as productive at last year’s aver: 
crop will be Nei $100,000. The other gardens will nee 
double this amou 
Had all the ee last year been as successful as the man 
whi n the $50 prize (he raised $60 worth of vegetables on one- 
seventeenth of an acre) the total would have shown a crop of 
$1,020 an acre. Note please this was his first year in gardening, 
and that the time devoted to this work would otherwise have 
wasted. 
‘ake other ae The average crop per acre was 8,117 
pounds. It ta oo pounds of vegetables De annum supply 
t i sie fore 
persons. Now 81 times 550 (the acreage @hich: ad ‘easily be 
8000 acres available in Essex County ing this time 150 
pou of vegetables per average person per annum there 
enough vacant land sex County to supply y of 
Newark, Irvington and East Orange with all their sca 
Thi n astonishing discovery. Enoug! 
an industrial rane supply all eee ee af 
e average ne S ck yard in a large city, hardly big 
hang out” the family washing in, is worth as much to 
its owner as a $1,000 Liberty Bond, while the larger areas sur- 
rounding houses in small communities are bale two or three 
b 
ch bonds he back yards and vacant lots of the eae if 
capitalized, ought to yield something like one billion dollars 
ear—more than the giant wheat crop of 1915 at its high prices 
yi 
Translated into terms of cabbage and potatoes aad carrots, 
