THE WAR GARDEN 
VICTORIOUS 
CHAPTER I 
HOW THE NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION 
it essential that food should be raised where it 
had not been produced in peace times, with labor not 
engaged in agricultural work and not taken from any 
other industry, and in places where it made no demand 
upon the railroads already overwhelmed with trans- 
portation burdens. 
The knowledge that the world faced a deficit in food, 
that there existed an emergency which could be met 
only by the raising of more food, was apparent to every 
well-informed and thinking man and woman during the 
early months of 1917. 
The author, wishing, as every patriot wished, to do 
a war work which was actually necessary, which was 
essentially practical, and which would most certainly 
aid in making the war successful, conceived the idea in 
March, 1917, of inspiring the people of the United States 
to plant war gardens in order to increase the supply of 
food without the use of land already cultivated, of 
CAME INTO BEING 
The Need of Making Every Garden a Munition Plant 
iHE war garden was a war-time necessity. 
This was true because war conditions made 
