THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 31 
ward feeding the army was shown by a careful estimate 
as to the amount of food which they added to the 
nation’s larder. This was reckoned in 1918 as having 
a value of #525,000,000. Taking into consideration 
equivalent food values, it was figured on a conserva- 
tive basis that our 1918 war gardens grew food equal 
in body-building power to the meat ration required by 
an army of 1,000,000 men for 302 days; the bread 
ration for 248 days; or the entire ration for 142 days. 
This wonderful saving of commercial supplies made the 
war-garden movement eminently worth while from 
this standpoint alone. 
Munitions represent only one of the three M’s. 
Money is another. Money makes the army as well as 
the mare go. The value produced by home gardeners 
went far to meet the increasing demands for money due 
to the war. To realize the wonderful financial possi- 
bilities of war gardening is almost as difficult as to 
grasp the possibilities of food production. The prod- 
ucts of the little Pennsylvania garden already referred 
to were worth, according to the records of the gardener, 
#63.50. That valuation was made at pre-war prices. 
The same products, in 1918, would have been worth 
probably half as much again, or close to #100.00. Even 
if its products were worth only #50.00 that sum would 
have enabled the gardener to buy, with the money 
saved by gardening, a Liberty Bond. 
Suppose all our war gardens averaged as well, what 
would be the result? The 5,285,000 gardens of 1918 
would have yielded #264,250,000. Actually, the re- 
