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THE BOYS COME 
MARCHING HOME. 
They Will Be Tired of 
Eating Army and Navy Rations 
They’ll Be Longing for Some of 
Mother’s Home Grown Vegetables 
and a 
Big Piece of Mother’s Home Made Apple Pie 
Plan Now to Have a Big Garden of Fresh, Delicious Tasty Vegetables this 
year. Sunkist Vegetables out of Your Own Garden, Picked Fresh with the 
Morning Dew and cooked in your own kitchen, contain far more vitamins and 
taste better than any the market affords. 
Cpl. Calvin E. Smart recently wrofe his dear mother at Decatur, Illinois, 
as follows: 
“Dearest Mom: 
“Would you send me some Garden Seeds, Mom? Something 
tike Radishes, Onions, Cucumbers, Melons, Cantaloupe, Pop Corn 
and Sweet Corn, if you can get it. The next place I sit down at for 
a little while, I am going to have a garden.” 
Mrs. Smart wrote us immediately and we in turn promptly dispatched with 
our compliments to Cpl. Smart a nice assortment of all Seeds suitable for planting 
in his Victory Garden in the South Pacific. 
This incident aroused our curiosity and in digging further into the matter 
we were very much surprised to find that at least in the Central Pacific there 
is quite a gardening and farming project in existence which follows our ad- 
vancing troops over a wide territory. 
For instance, the Guam garden already covers 5,000 acres which are pro- 
ducing monthly more than 2,000 tons of tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, corn, 
and other truck for the armed forces. We further found that these farm garden 
projects started out from scratch a little more than a year ago, and when you 
consider all the handicaps they encountered and the success of the project, it 
should be an’ inspiration to every American at home to have a Bigger and 
Beiter Victory Garden in 1945 than ever before. 
On one project in the New Hebrides thick virgin underbrush had to be 
uprooted and coral sand scraped away, but with perseverance and the help 
of some prison labor, our boys last year were the proud producers of 15,000 
ears of sweet corn in time for Christmas... and that’s gardening the hard 
way! On Guadalcanal before any thoughts of gardening could take place our 
boys had to remove a thick growth of high knife-edged Kangaroo Grass and 
in order to do this they had to borrow bulldozers from the Seabees before they 
could even begin to plow. 
Nevertheless, nothing deterred these boys. They overcame these unnatural 
obstacles and harvested their crops with a very satisfying measure of success. 
This program has already proved so satisfactory that the Navy is asking 
for the cultivation of an additional 10,000 acres in the Central Pacific as soon 
as the fighting moves on far enough, and it should be a pleasant thought 
for all of us Americans to realize that this chain of overseas victory gardens 
may reach all the way to Japan! 
The big lesson of all of this is that we Americans who grumble about short- 
ages should bend our backs with redoubled effort to plant this spring the 
finest and most productive victory gardens and thank our lucky stars that 
we can do it in perfect safety far from the whine of shells and the bursting 
of bombs. 

Cpl. Calvin E. Smart of Decatur, Illinois (2nd from 
left), with his “‘Buddies’’, lined up for chow in 
New Guinea. These boys and millions of others 
appreciate the value of fresh Vegetables. Read the 
story of gardening in the South Pacific on this page. 

Lt. John W. Wyne of Bedford, Ohio, Graduate of 
Ohio State University. By the time this goes to 
press, Lt. Wyne probably will be enjoying fresh 
Vegetables in New Guinea from the Garden Seeds 
we sent in late fall by request of his good wife. 
Lt. Wyne wrote his good wife recently, requesting 
that an assortment of Garden Seed be sent to him. She 
in turn made the request to us and promptly same 
was mailed to him with our compliments. 
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