Whatever the work each Club shall elect to do, it is certain that 
each must work earnestly and patriotically, with a clear plan, toward 
a definite end. In this issue of The Bulletin is an account of the 
activities of many already formed organizations and suggestions for 
other sorts of useful work. Our Country has a job for every one of us 
and that we belong to a Garden Club should mean that we are fitted 
to help in the great movement to provide food for ourselves and our 
allies. 
There are other more romantic deeds of war, there are war char- 
ities with more sentimental appeal, but three years of war have proved 
that we stand or fall by our food supply. 
At our fingers' ends is a way to help practically and satisfy the 
desire of our hearts to help patriotically. 
France Trains a New Army 
The following paragraphs have been translated and adapted from 
various French garden publications : 
The Minister of Agriculture of France has issued the following 
appeal to the youth of France: 
"France has need of your devotion, the land has need of your 
arms. 
"While the fields lie fallow, when women and old men have not 
the strength to cultivate the soil which their husbands and sons 
gloriously defend, it is for you, children of France, to reclaim these 
deserted fields and give to the earth the succor it so pressingly needs. 
"Let every school, public or private, organize for this work in the 
fields. Village by village, city by city, let crews of school boys and 
girls give willing and well-ordered service. 
"Form groups, unify, to the end that your services be not wasted, 
and that by co-ordinated effort you may draw from the generous earth 
all the benefits that are hers to give." 
In March a conference was held at the Ministry, and arrangements 
made for instruction to teachers and crew captains. 
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Military Gardens in 191 7 
The Minister of War of the French Republic has put at the dis- 
position of the Department of Agriculture under M. Ducrocq, 70 
professional horticulturists, many of them former pupils of the 
School of Versailles, who will direct the making of gardens around 
