Show Truck Patch Reserves Called to Active Duty The U.S. department of agriculture Is encouraging Americans to plant gardens as a part of the national and civil defense Officially called the and Food Preservation the campaign puts it up to citizens in 1951 to carry on in the best traditions of World War H's victory gardens and the war gardens of In 1917 It was estimated that the nation's back yard and vacant-lot gardeners harvested crops valued at some It was a record for the but easily broken by th victory sowers of the last In 1943 some 20 million vegetable gardeners an estimated six million more than in the prewar year of 1941 produced about eight million tons of enough to fill freight The agriculture department pointed out that fresh home-grown vegetables Improve the nation's benefiting both health and and no consideration in these times cut down the cost of |