mit. But he did grow a second 
crop of corn, and it was larger 
than his first crop. In this way 
he converted the sceptics to the 
possibility and the value of 
rotation in garden crops. 
The Japanese government is 
studying the methods which have 
been carried out successfully in 
this country by the National War 
Garden Commission. S. S. Honda, 
trade commissioner of Japan and 
an official in the Department of 
Agriculture, who was recently in 
the United States, took hack with 
him to Japan all the informa¬ 
tion he could gather about home 
and community food production, 
with the purpose of organizing a 
similar campaign in his conutry. 
In discussing the subject he said 
that a survey of idle land was 
then being made and that his peo¬ 
ple, who knew virtually nothing 
about home gardening, would be 
urged to cultivate all the land 
available. Japan, of course, 
prides itself upon its gardens, he 
said; but it is because of the beau¬ 
tiful flowers and landscape effects 
for which they are famous, not 
because of the vegetables which 
these gardens produce. 
The Victory Garden campaign 
in the United States this year is 
in full swing, and in the wide¬ 
spread interest shown and the 
number of gardens 
planted bids fair to 
ACTIVITY 1 
surpass the wonderful 
work done in 1918. Hundreds of 
organizations which were active 
in the movement last year are 
again in the field, while new ones 
are taking up the slogan of 
“ Food F. 0. B. the Kitchen 
Door ” and urging everybody to 
get into the furrows of freedom 
to drive back the new enemy, 
General Hunger. Manufacturing 
concerns have prepared to assist 
their employes again this year by 
providing land for them to culti¬ 
vate. There is increased inter¬ 
est among railroad employes in 
the work. State and city officials 
and garden committees are busy. 
Banks and libraries will assist 
again by the distribution to their 
patrons of thousands of garden 
books furnished them by the 
Commission. The newspapers of 
the country again are backing the 
movement and lending it their 
hearty support. Big campaigns 
are on in many cities, and mo¬ 
tion pictures are being used to 
show what the “ city farmers ” 
can do. As an illustration of 
what they are doing in some of 
the cities, here is what C. E. 
Smith, garden director of the De¬ 
troit department of parks and 
boulevards, says in a letter to the 
Commission: 
4 4 The work for the present 
year is well on its way and we 
are anticipating a much bigger 
and better work than the year 
previous. With a large number 
of gardeners already enrolled 
with us and the present amount 
of available land for garden pur¬ 
poses more than double that of 
last year, we feel assured that the 
victory gardening for this year 
