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“Our purpose is to encourage the raising of fresh 
vegetables at the mills and logging camps of this state 
and Oregon where employes are engaged in the pro- 
duction of essential war material for shipping and air- 
craft purposes,” was the inspiring word from Robert 
B. Allen, of Seattle, secretary of the West Coast Lum- 
bermen’s Association. C. S. Williams, vice-president 
of the F. B. Williams Cypress Company, of Patterson, 
Louisiana, reported thus to the Commission: 
We are pleased to advise that practically every avail- 
able piece of land that we own around the plant is 
being used for war gardens for our employes. There 
seems to be a great interest in home gardening through- 
out this territory. We have never seen the land so 
entirely and carefully cultivated. Hardly a family is 
without a garden. Almo<st every one of our men has a 
garden. The books you sent were quickly taken and 
have been of great service to our people. They are now 
planning a great canning campaign. 
One of the most interesting instances of this eager- 
ness to help both the country and its employes, was 
furnished by the Inspiration Consolidated Copper 
Company, of Inspiration, Arizona. Before a thing 
could be planted, it was necessary to dig five artesian 
wells to furnish the water needed for the two hundred 
and seventeen acres of war gardens cultivated by the 
miners in the first year of the enterprise. The land 
was situated 3,300 feet up in the mountains. The re- 
gion was arid. The employes were cosmopolitan. 
Italians, Chileans, Mexicans, Indians, Finns, Swedes 
