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NEWARK, NEW YORK STATE FE BoR USAR Yo 11272)5) 189) 455 
VICTORY FOOD AND FLOWER GARDENS 
The call to again man Victory Gardens has come to America's gardeners just as 
imperatively as the call to produce more weapons for participation in the front lines. 
Food is still the most potent weapon for the morale of the home front, and for- 
tunately we can all do our share to keep an increasing supply of it. 
The millions of new gardeners have themselves led the way for our Government 
agencies. With the guidance of the Government experts and the sincere and unselfish 
assistance of more experienced neighbors, hosts of our home folks have discovered 
the joy of growing things, and have had a sufticient supply of vitamins and real food 
at a time when the authorities were much concerned over the prospects of shortages 
from the regular sources of supply. 
The home gardeners are to be greatly applauded for their zeal, not only in grow- 
ing the food but also in the stupendous task of correctly preserving and storing the sur- 
pluses. 
Many of the millions are now, with the encouragement and blessings of the au- 
thorities at Washington, adding flowers to their planting plans. Garden plots are pro- 
ducing beauty as well as food, and borders and beds and lawns around the homes, are 
being brightened up to a much greater extent than ever before in the history of the 
country. 
Gardening is no longer the special interest of the few larger homes, but has 
swept the country and has become the great hobby of many. 
The boys returning trom the far distant and exotic countries will find a more beau- 
tiful America, and their pleasant home grounds colorful and well cared for just as they 
dreamed about them when away. 
This has been an unusual winter, twice the early winter vegetable crops of the 
South were destroyed by adverse weather conditions. The snowfall in the Northern 
states has been almost stifling, so much so, that for periods of many weeks no express 
or freight shipments could be moved. Although fuel and farm feed has been critical, 
in our own area cattle and chicken feed was delivered to marooned farmers by plane, 
not once has any reference been made to a shortage of food for the general public. 
A great deal of credit for this can be taken by the Victory Gardeners who had 
reserves of their own and whose unselfish labors permitted the small percentage of the 
commercially processed foods available to civilians to go to those who had no gardens. 
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