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i) This very attractive fruit and vegetable display was prepared by students of Arms Academy, Shelburne Falls, Massa- 
chusetts. Roswell Miller, agricultural instructor, sent the picture to the COOPERATOR saying it was “proof of the pud- 
ding” for many Eastern States vegetable seed items. ‘The Arms Academy FFA Chapter purchased over $75 worth of 
Eastern States seed. There were 125 exhibits of vegetables and 50 of other items. 
A-H and FFA 
yx Young gardeners on the farms of 
Eastern States members are invited 
to participate in a special war garden 
demonstration sponsored by the Ex- 
change. The purpose will be to find 
out just how much well-planned 
gardens can contribute to the farm 
family’s table. 
These gardens will be known as 
Eastern States Demonstration Gardens. 
Any boy or girl under 18 living on 
an Eastern States member’s farm is 
welcome to enlist in the Demonstra- 
tion Garden program. These gardens 
can also be used as 4-H or FFA 
projects if they are conducted so as 
to qualify with these organizations. 
The Eastern States Demonstration Gar- 
dens ate based on seeing how much 
can be grown in a farm garden and 
while a junior member of the family 
is enlisted as the participant, the 
Exchange’s program is open to hay- 
ing other members of the family do 
all they can to make the farm’s 
garden pour out a horn of plenty. 
The rules are simple: 
1. The candidate for growing Dem- 
onstration Garden “‘enlists’’ with an 
enrollment pledge secured by writing 
to the Eastern STaTEs COOPERATOR. 
2. The “‘enlistment’’ is an agree- 
ment to do the best job the enlistee 
can in following the garden plan the 
Exchange prescribes. 
3. All supplies of seeds, fertilizer, 
sprays and dusts used are to be East- 
ern States, insofar as is possible. 
Am hesenlisteesteccivesmamplan, 
calendar, guide, record book and 
diary to be kept in full detail while 
the garden is being planted, cared for, 
harvested and used. This is the all- 
important feature of the Demonstra- 
tion Garden project. 
5. The completed record forms are 
to be mailed to the Easrern Srates 
Cooperator and the information they 
contain is to be used in analvzing and 
reporting the results of the dem- 
onstrations. 
6. Demonstration Gardens ate to be 
subject to inspection — like soldiers 
—during the growing season and 
authorized representatives of the Ex- 
change will visit the demonstrations 
and file reports on what they ob- 
served. 
7. On the basis of what the family 
was supplied from the garden, what 
the field inspection reported, and how 
well the records of the project were 
kept, the Exchange will select 10 star 
gardeners and bring them to Spring- 
field for an educational visit to the 
Eastern States Plant Industry Project 
. . . and there'll be fun and inspira- 
tion aplenty connected with receiving 
honors in this important wartime 
demonstration. 
yy This isn’t the usual kind of junior 
contest. The Exchange is not inter- 
ested in coaxing hundreds of young 
folks into buving Eastern States seeds 
and growing all sorts of gardens with 
a lot of whoopala. This is a serious 
and practical demonstration which 
boys and girls can do, we believe, 
just as well as their elders who are 
too busy these days to tackle any 
extras. 
The Demonstration Gardens are in 
three units which fit together to 
make an all-out war garden. You can 
enlist in one, two or all, just as you 
please. The first unit is the smallest 
requiring 500 square feet for early 
vegetables. Rows may be as short or 
long as the demonstrator desires, but 
the arrangement, distances between 
rows, and succession of plantings of 
