64 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
need and the pressing importance of this work, and by 
giving out also instruction books from the Commission 
telling the city farmer how to proceed. 
Praise must be extended to business as a whole for 
the part it has taken in aiding in the cultivation of war 
gardens by the nation’s army of workers. A list of the 
concerns which have helped in this way would be prac- 
tically all inclusive. Among the big nationally known 
companies which have been especially active in this 
form of war work are the Oliver Chilled Plow Company, 
Du Pont de Nemours & Company, the American Roll- 
ing Mill Company, the American Woolen Company, the 
General Electric Company, the United States Steel 
Corporation, the American Optical Company, the 
American Cast Iron Pipe Company, the American 
Steel and Wire Company, the J. I. Case Plow Works, 
the Universal Portland Cement Company, the Oliver 
Iron Mining Company, the Ford Motor Company, the 
Solvay Process Company and the Eastman Kodak 
Company. 
Employes at the various mills of the American Wool- 
en Company planted in 1918 a total of 1,229 acres of 
gardens; and Mr. William M. Wood, the president of 
this big manufacturing concern which made large 
quantities of clothing to help keep the American sol- 
diers warm, expressed his gratification at this other 
way in which the employes were working to help their 
country. 
As to some of the benefits to the workmen themselves, 
the moral strength which they gain from their employ- 
