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Show CITY FOLK MUST GO TO GARDENING, SAYS PROFESSOR Many Might Thus Cut Their .Annual Food Bills One-" eighth. He Says NEW YORK, March 6. The averaffe American family can jrrow oneelfrhttt' of fta food and aav at leaat $100 a I year by plantjnr home garden, according; ac-cording; to D. Sw Morgan, professor of aericiiUure at Columbia university, who haa juat completed a aurvey of agricultural conditions which led him to urge the resumption of war garden work. Twenty-two thousand five hundred forty farms have been abandoned In New Tork state In ten years, he says, and predicts that with growipa; unemployment unem-ployment in citlea the more energetic of the city's aurplua population will be forced back to the farm. Hucces0ful gardening; dependa particularly par-ticularly upon perseverance and versa- tlllty In knowledge," the professor said, the demand for help In home gardening, parttcnlarly stronff this yesr, has led the .olumbla department of extension teaching to. arrange to present eight biweekly lectures In vegetable and fruit raising well In sd-vance sd-vance of the planting aeason by Hugh Flndlay, lecturer In horticulture at Columbia. Co-lumbia. Stress will be laid on crops and methods with which success In the asms season as planting i most probable. "Within ths metropolitan district are msny people Interested In the farm outlook who wish to try farming on a small scale and this course Is plsnned for them, "Hard times are threatening the farmer now. Ke Is not buying an extra ex-tra truck, s new silo, s 'bargain' $10,000 sirs to head his herd these difficult times He la In the large company of city and factory people who are suffering suf-fering affliction In the poeketbook region. re-gion. The city folk, however, are not like ths firmer, In position to out production pro-duction and yet live comfortably. Hence many war gardens will b resuscitated. re-suscitated. "All through the Northeastern states during the past decade there haa been a remarkable falling off In the number of active farma. New England aver-agea aver-agea a decrease of approximately I? per rent. New Jersey 11.4 per cent. Pennaylvan!a t per cent and New York 10 per rent. The farming population! haa mov.d to town' In their affluent times, the young people have gone Into the factory for flo a week and 'a new movie every night In the week.' preferring pre-ferring this to 'S4U to ln a month snd found. Msssachusetts now reports un- employment in her cities snd factory towns ss 15 per cent. There ars too' msnv people In our cities. I "Fsrm land prices sre more resson- sble than they were In lalT-Mll. The I high prices of fsrm supplies snd equipment equip-ment have distinctly sbsted. Fertlllx- ( ers at present seem to constitute the exception to prove the general rule." |