there was great interest shown, it was doubtful if Rye could support 
a Unit. 
The Garden Club has been given land to parcel out free in small 
gardens, and we are trying to stimulate this enterprise by having 
public lectures and holding in the fall a vegetable show with money 
prizes — open to all. We are backing a canning kitchen co-operating 
with Greenwich in using a dehydrator. 
Short Hills Garden Club, i. Support has been given through 
the Club's members as individuals to a War Garden of 25 acres, 
started last year, but to be run much more intensively this season and 
planted to such crops as the Government suggests in the present crisis. 
2. In co-operation with other clubs in the township, the Club is 
carrying on a campaign to arouse the interest of the entire community 
to the necessity of canning all surplus crops. 
3. The Club is in close touch with the work of the Women's 
Land Army of America. The president is Vice-Chairman for the 
New Jersey Division and one of the members has accepted the chair- 
manship of Essex County. It is expected that a unit of the Land 
Army will be installed in our immediate vicinity. Members are doing 
personal work in spreading information to all farmers within a radius 
of ten miles and already have the pledged support of many. 
4. Members are planting field corn on new tracts near their 
regular gardens, which may, without use of railroad transportation 
in either direction, be ground at a local mill and returned to the 
consumer to be used as a wheat substitute in the coming year. 
5. The proceeds from the Club's Annual Dahlia Show will be 
devoted to objects connected with war necessities. 
Under the auspices of the Garden Club of Washington, Con- 
necticut, a farm unit of women workers wiU be established this 
summer. There will be fourteen workers at the start and the number 
will be increased if there is a demand for more. 
There will be a number of children's gardens under the supervision 
of members of the Garden Club. 
The members of the Club also assist regularly in the Community 
Canning Kitchen. 
The Warrentown Garden Club has carefully considered the 
Unit Plan and has decided it is impractical for this community. 
