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House & Garden 
Garage Hardware 
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“The Plough is Our Hope’’ 
(Continued from page 12) 
The War Garden Record of Nine American Cities 
(These figures are compiled from information supplied by the leading 
papers in each of the cities mentioned. — Editor.) 
Boston has a showing of 1,500 acres of war gardens within the city 
limits. 
Chicago has 200,000 home and vacant lot gardens, the result of a re¬ 
markable campaign conducted by the Garden Bureau. Eight thou¬ 
sand acres were plowed, 51 teams plowing every day and 24 tractors 
plowing day and night. One hundred and twenty thousand people 
called at the Bureau to arrange for gardens, 69,500 attended garden 
meetings, 25,000 purchased seed at wholesale from the Bureau, 
365,000 pieces of instructive garden literature were distributed. 
Cleveland reports that approximately 900 acres are being devoted to 
war gardens in Greater Cleveland and about 1,690 acres in territory 
surrounding the city are being cultivated by Cleveland people who 
normal'y do not garden. 
Kansas City says that its patriotic citizens are raising their bit on 5,159 
acres of vacant lots. 
Louisville, Ky., gives a conservative estimate of 300 acres, which rep¬ 
resents one-third of its entire back gardens and vacant lots. 
Memphis, which is the center of the great garden movement for the 
Delta region of some 60,000 sq. miles, has 30,000 war gardens. 
Minneapolis estimates 1,500 acres, largely planted through the activ¬ 
ities of the Garden Club. School children have 1,200 gardens in 
charge. 
New York City has approximately 1,150 acres under the war plough. 
In Manhattan alone there are 960 patches under cultivation. Brook¬ 
lyn has 4,700 war gardens, the Bronx has more than 180 acres of 
patriotic truck plots and Richmond and Queens have about 450 acres 
of vegetables each. The Department of Parks has furnished much 
of the seed for these gardens either free of charge or at cost. 
Philadelphia gives a conservative estimate of 200 acres of vacant lots 
given to war gardens of which 80 acres are being cultivated by school 
children. This estimate covers merely the public gardening. Figures 
for the private patriotic patches are not available. 
hand, and places as much display type 
as the four biggest commercial adver¬ 
tisers in Canada combined. The 
country has never been as busy or 
as prosperous. Thousands of farmers 
in Western Canada have sold their 
crops this year for more than the 
total cost of their land. Farms at 
from fifteen to thirty dollars an acre 
have produced crops worth forty to 
seventy-five. But still the Govern¬ 
ment calls insatiably for more and 
more production. 
The scrapping of the tariff wall 
on wheat will undoubtedly facilitate 
distribution north and south; the 
establishment of a War Information 
Bureau for the benefit of the ama¬ 
teur agriculturist will perhaps do as 
much good in another way; and the 
flood of pamphlets on home garden¬ 
ing will convince John Doe and Mrs. 
Joanna Ditto that beets and beans 
are not esoteric mysteries but chemi¬ 
cal combinations achievable by any¬ 
body who doesn't mind doing calis¬ 
thenics with a spade and having a 
Turkish bath in the open. To secure 
the Agricultural Department’s infor¬ 
mation doesn’t cost anything—-not 
even a two cent stamp. The inquirer 
merely puts “O.H.M.S.” (On His 
Majesty’s Service) in the corner of 
the envelope and it sails straight to its 
destination without postage. 
The Provincial Governments _ fol¬ 
low the general lead of the Dominion 
in bugle-calls-to-action, each invent¬ 
ing additional trills of its own. For 
example, Ontario specializes in school 
boys, and anyone of them between 
the ages of fourteen and eighteen 
may pass his examination “unsight, 
unseen,” as he’d say himself, if he en¬ 
listed for farm work between April 
20th and May 20th. In order that 
the hoys may be well looked after, 
the Y. M. C. A. has agreed to follow 
up the volunteers of whom there will 
be from three to five thousand, ac¬ 
cording to the estimates of the On¬ 
tario Department of Education. Girls 
will be similarly invited to place 
muscle on a level with mind in the 
matter of certificates, by going into 
fruit-picking, dairying or chicken 
farming activities. 
This last named cock-a-doodle-doo 
contingent has an important adver¬ 
tising campaign all to itself. In nor¬ 
mal times Great Britain eats 1,000,- 
000 eggs a day. Canadian eggs are 
at a premium in England. And the 
man who can’t fight, can't plough, 
can’t make munitions, is urged to 
heave a Plymouth Rock at the Kaiser 
anyhow. As there are fewer hens in 
the whole of Canada than inhabit the 
State of Ohio alone, Americans might 
well consider a further and impres¬ 
sive expansion of their poultry in¬ 
dustry. It might also be a good line 
of service to suggest for that trouble¬ 
some patriot, the conscientious ob¬ 
jector to anything dangerous. 
Lessons for America 
But perhaps the most telling 
method of saving that America could 
adopt would be that of following the 
Dominion on the water wagon—just 
as the Dominion followed the South. 
Every province except Quebec has 
realized the wisdom of enacting legis¬ 
lation to take the lick out of liquor 
and keep the bar away from barley. 
Immense quantities of grain are 
saved, bank balances are added to, 
old debts are settled, fewer police¬ 
men are needed and the problem of 
managing large training camps is 
made much easier. 
As in England and in America, so 
in Canada women have never been so 
prominent in national life as they are 
at present. All the provinces have 
auxiliary arms to their Departments 
of Agriculture, in the highly suc¬ 
cessful Women’s Institutes, under 
Government supervision and accus¬ 
tomed to respond to Government sug¬ 
gestion. Needless to say these women 
helped in the original 1915 Produc¬ 
tion Campaign, were the star partici¬ 
pants in the Thrift Drive, and are 
today marshaling Johnny out to water 
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