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THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



of Seattle, Washington, whose husband wore his 

 country's uniform, well shows the spirit that animated 

 these women gardeners: 



"Thanks for the war vegetable gardening booklet 

 you sent me in the spring," she says. "My husband is 

 in the navy and I have two small babies, but that did 



not keep me from raising 

 a garden. We have a 

 plot fifty by two hundred 

 feet, and every inch is in 

 something. I wish you 

 could see it. I weigh 

 ninety-eight pounds but I 

 am going to do my bit. 

 Now I wish you would 

 send me your home can- 



This type of green goods will cure the blues ning and drying book." 



From Mrs. G. P. Dutcher, of Arlington, Massachusetts, 

 came this other typical communication : " I was seventy- 

 eight years old on March thirty-first. I expect to raise 

 what beans I need for a family of three for the next 

 year. I did it last year and did all my own planting." 



We see the significance and worth of this woman's 

 service when we realize that a day's rations for one 

 million United States soldiers includes 75,000 pounds 

 of beans, and that we raised an army of approximately 

 four million men! This enormous demand for beans 

 had to be met from commercial supplies that could 

 be increased, because of labor shortage, only slightly 

 above the pre-war production. So we had the army 



