The Need for Victory Gardens 
22,000,000 Victory Gardens is the Goal for 1944 
At the National Victory Garden Conference, held in Chicago November 16th 
and 17th, leaders of government, education and industry pooled their experience 
to form a program for 1944. 
This program asks for 22 million gardens in 1944, plus a total gain of 25 per 
cent in the produce from these gardens. It was estimated that in 1943 there were 
5,000,000 Victory Gardens on farms and 15,000,000 were non- 
farm. 
More than half the fresh vegetables available to civilians of 
the United States in 1943 were grown in Victory Gardens. 
This fact is established by statistics prepared by U. 8S. Dept. 
of Agriculture and should demonstrate, beyond all doubt, the 
value of this campaign to the national defense and the im- 
portance of maintaining and expanding it, not only for the 
duration, but until the world food shortage, produced by war, 
has been ended and the problem of nutrition has been solved. 
Mr. James H. Burdett, director of The National Garden 
Bureau stated: “If this half be considered on the basis of its 
nutritive value to the population subsisting on a rationed diet, 
in which the normal proportion of vitamin-rich protective 
foods has been substantially reduced, then the contribution of 
Victory Gardens to the civilian food supply grows in import- 
ance. Not only were they rich in vitamins, but their vitamins 
were not reduced by delays in marketing. Victory Garden 
vegetables were carried direct to the table, where their super- 
lative tenderness and flavor, to which every Victory Gardener 
will testify, undoubtedly caused much greater consumption 
of these appetizing dishes than would have been the case had 
they been purchased in the market. 
And what of the saving which these 7,900,000 tons of fresh 
vegetables, carried direct from the garden to the kitchen, 
made possible for our overburdened transportation system? 
To transport this quantity to market would have taken the 
equivalent of 266,000 cars, and it is worth remembering that 

Lincoln Corn. many commercial vegetables occupy cars on the way to market 
One of the outstand- as long as nine days. Of course those carloads which theoret- 
ing new, mid-season : j 
A Gcee tae ae: ically were saved, could never have been shipped to market. 
corn that should be Had there been no Victory Gardens the supply would have been 
shee OL eC CAIOT. nearly 8,000,000 tons less of fresh vegetables for civilians of 
pee Peale. the country to eat or can.” 
Supplies and Prices for 1944 
As this catalog goes to press, the supply of almost all manufactured articles is 
uncertain. We have been depleting our stocks and many are impossible to replace 
at present. Therefore, all articles in this issue are offered subject to supply avail- 
able, and we reserve the right to limit quantities. There are indications that there 
will be a more liberal supply of materials for essential use in 1944. We advise that 
you contact us in regard to this changing situation. 
