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Farm Young People 
Should Enroll Now in 
Eastern States Event 
Tue Eastern States Demonstration 
Garden project, established in 1943 to 
encourage youthful farmers to grow 
produce for the family table, will be 
conducted and greatly expanded for 
1944. 
The success of the 1943 project was. 
far beyond the fondest expectations, 
16 gardens having produced a total of 
approximately 6854 pounds of table 
and storage food. 
The project for 1944 will again be 
known as Eastern States Demonstra- 
tion Gardens, and is open to any boy 
or girl aged 12 to 18, inclusive, living 
on an Eastern States membet’s farm. 
The gardens entered in the project 
may also be used as 4-H and FFA 
projects, if they are conducted so 
as to qualify with Eastern States 
and the other organizations. Eastern 
States is interested in seeing how 
much can be grown in a farm garden 
by youthful workers, not in promot- 
ing profit gardens or commodities. It 
is a constructive program to en- 
courage gardening to provide fresh 
and storage food for the family. 
With present indications pointing 
toward a larger enrollment in the 
1944 project, a group of special 
awards will be granted, in addition to 
the 10 top-ranking awards provided 
in the 1943 competition. During this 
year, special recognition will be given 
for the best demonstration garden 
-located in each of the 27 Eastern 
States field territories. From among 
all the participants the 10 foremost 
gardeners will be chosen for all- 
expense trips to West Springfield. 
The measure of each demonstrator’s 
garden will be taken in fresh, canned, 
pickled, dried, stored, or table-use 
eatables. There will also be inspection 
reports from Eastern States staff mem- 
bers, and officials of the 4-H and FFA 
organizations will be invited to check 
Demonstration Garden 
Projects Again in 1944 

these observations. Record forms and 
diaries must be kept by each entrant 
and submitted for their information 
value and for comparison in selecting 
the star gardeners. 
The demonstration gardens can be 
in three units which fit together to 
make a complete vegetable garden, 
or can be in one, two or three units 
as the enrollee may choose. The first 
unit is the smallest, requiring 500 
square feet for early vegetables. Rows 
may be as short or long as the dem- 
onstrator desires, but the arrange- 
ment, distance between rows, and 
succession of planting are to be fol- 
lowed specifically. Each individual 
may choose any variety of any vege- 
table he so desires. The second unit 
requires 1500 square feet, and includes 
the mid-summer vegetables. The third 
unit must not be less than 3000 square 
feet, and involves the production of 
produce throughout the entire season, 
including the late-vining vegetables. 
The simple rules of the demonstra- 
_ tion are: 
1. The candidate for growing a 
Demonstration Garden “‘enlists’’ with 
an enrollment pledge secured by writ- 
ing to the EasreRN STaTEs COOPERA- 
tor, West Springfield, Mass. 
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. 
4. The enlistee receives a plan, cal- 
endar, guide, record book and diary 
to be kept in full detail while the 
garden is being planted, cared for, 
used or harvested for storage. This is 
the all-important feature of the Dem- 
onstration Garden project. 
5. The completed record forms are 
to be mailed to the EasterN STATEs 
Coopgrator and the information they 
contain is to be used in analyzing and 
reporting the results of the demon- 
strations. 
6. Demonstration Gardens ate to be 
subject to inspection during the grow- 
ing season and authorized representa- 
tives of the Exchange will visit the 
demonstrations and file reports on 
what they observed. 
7. On the basis of what the family 
was supplied from the garden, what 
the field inspector reported, and how 
the records of the project were kept, 
the Exchange will select 10 star 
gardeners and bring them, with all 
expenses paid, to West Springfield for 
a visit to the Eastern States Plant 
Industry Project. There'll also be a 
trip to Westbrook, Eastern States 
nutritional laboratory, a tour of the 
headquarters, an award dinner, and 
plenty of fun and inspiration. 
Eight of the 10 star gardeners in the 1943 Demonstration Garden project caught by 
the camera as they toured Westbrook, Eastern States’ nutritional laboratory at Ell- 
ington, Connecticut. 

