ous to follow the suggestion of The Garden Club of America that 
each of its branches use its organization in some way for the National 
Service of food production and conservation. To do this we have 
formed a imit of young girls from sixteen years of age upwards who 
will work under a trained agriculturist to raise crops for one of the 
charitable institutions that has always given fine service to the com- 
munity for many years. These girls have leisure and a strong desire 
for patriotic service. The members of the Garden Club have given 
them for this season the use of the land. The experience of the heads 
of the local centers for canning and drying has very generously been 
offered them. 
If their experiment proves a success or if other Service Auxiliaries 
of young people are formed, not to compete with the local market by 
seUing its produce but to reheve the market of the drain of a charitable 
institution we think there will be real gain. 
Massachusetts Food Administrator, Mr. Henry B. Endicott, 
endorses this experiment as a wise one, and Mrs. Thayer, Chairman 
of The Women's Council for National Defense, thinks this plan re- 
markably well worth while. Miss Arnold, Dean of Simmons College, 
endorses it not only from the standpoint of increasing the supply of 
available foods, but she thinks that it will count even more in that 
all who are interested will become conscious supporters of the Govern- 
ment in its solution of the food problem. 
Surely, everybody is needed in this crisis, and we are very proud 
of these girls who do not ask to be excused this drudgery. 
Report of 
Lenox Garden Club ^ 
In April, 191 7, on the entry of the United States into the European 
war, the members of the Lenox Garden Club decided that the useful 
rather than the ornamental should engage the energies of the Club 
in the immediate future, and that all members must increase food 
production in their gardens and influence others to take up this pa- 
triotic duty. A contribution was made to the County Agricultural 
Bureau, also a teacher was engaged to give lectures on Food Economies 
in the nearby towns. Mr. Corbett of the Washington Department of 
Agriculture gave a lecture to the Club on the Storage of Fruits and 
Vegetables, as did Mr. D. Fairchild of the Department of Plant In- 
troduction, who spoke of the new food plants that were being ex- 
perimented with. A donation of $200 was made to the Fund for 
French Orchardists, Outside of the Club much was done in the 
