| Show 1 I ITY AND COUNTY NTY LAUN LAUNCH WAR AR GARDEN CAMPAIGN EVERY FOOT OF GROUND TO BE TILLED IS PLAN Lal Land d Owners Will Be Placed in Touch With Those I Wanting Plots COMMISSIONS il CO HOLD CONFABS SOON Ordinance to Require Registration Registration Registration Reg Reg- of Unused LandIs Land LandIs Is in Preparation TX ANS for an extensive war gar garden arde c 1 r campaign to eclipse any agricultural ral rat movement in the history of the state are now being worked out by members of the city and county com corn missions A meeting of the two bodies will be held next week when final de details details de- de tails of the campaign will be outlined and a permanent working committee named Both bodies together with every ma man and woman In the employ o of cn every r department department de de' will be called on for aid aid It I t their assistance Is needed c Not one foot of or available tillable land landIn In Salt lt L Lake ke C City r o or county count will go un cultivated In 1 1918 18 1 If present plans ar are arc carried out The united efforts ot of ever every land owner and every man woman woman wom worn an boy or girl who may not ot own on land but Is willing to cultivate a plot of ground will be called Into action The land owner who docs does not care to cultivate his land Jand will be brought In touch with the thc man or woman who ho I 11 willing Trilling to cultivate land lands but owns 05 none Food Need Great Members of or both commissions a agree that should the world war end tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row there was never a a. time when there would be the need for tOI fot food d supplies which there will be during the next twelve months While it Is generally admitted that wonders were wore done in the raising of crops last Jast year the start was late man many o of those who cultivated land had little or no 80 experience in the past but the lessons which they learned last year car were so successful that this year oar the they want more land A survey surveyor of both the city and county count made last Jast summer and fall faU showed that while there was more land under cultivation than over o before there were er hundreds of acres in the city that raised nothing but a crop of or weeds and thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of or acres in the county count that produced produced produced pro pro- nothing In line with the plans of ot the two boards of commissioners William HI H H. I Folland olland city a attorney and Richard Hartley HarUe county count attorney will prepare preparo ordinances which will require the owner owner own own- er Cr or agent of ot cr c every piece of ot Unoccupied Unoccupied unoccupied land Jand In the lie count county to register the same with the city and county count re re- re- re corders It Is Jil likely cl that the owner or agent will be bo required to state whether It Is their intention to cultivate the theland theland land luring during 1918 This will be the first step toward bringing the land owner and those who T rould produce tog together ther Scheid Favors JInnI JInn I am certainly In favor of oC the city doing anything In its power that every available foot of land might be put under cultivation The man who now can make two blades grow where ono one has ha grown rown is certainly doing a service ser for tOl himself his lila country and humanity I J will not alone do 10 all I can for tor greater great great- er crops In Salt Lake as a commissioner but will lend every possible assistance in an any other way that Is within my power power said Commissioner Karl A. A Scheid The citizens of or Salt Lake ma may rest assured that I will Give every support in m my power to Co an any movement that will vill mean the raising of more crops Land that will produce a crop should not be allowed to lie Idle especially In times like these said Commissioner H H. H. H Green The time has come when every en foot toot of or land that will produce should be un under under un- un der del cultivation If a man owns land and does docs not or will not cultivate it someone else should be given the op opportunity opportunity opportunity op- op to to- todo do Jo something not alone Continue don Page 3 3 31 BIG Ic WAR W GARDEN MOVE LAUNCHED Continued from Page Pace 1 1 to cut down the hl high h cost of living but to see that our boys Oy over o there Were anc arid and the other boys together with their families are fed ted My ly voice and md vote ote wm wilI be for the thc cultivation of every overy tillable foot of land In Salt Lake county I. I Commissioner this year ear said County Count B. B Hughes f t Must F Peed Feed ed A lIe 4 f J J o My vote ote will win b be yes es not alone for forthe fori forthe the proposed ordinance but for any and i every movement mo that will mean thc the Cultivation and raising of ot crops this year year Now ow Is the time for liB I IB the time that we must co do o more in the Way wy of feeding feeding- the allied armies and anel their their dependents as well as an ourselves Th These e arc are war times and if necessary o I am g g to take war time moan moan- urea to end the the- war as al soon as pos- pos announced Commissioner A. A H H. Crabbe The commissioner of ot waterworks T r went went even further He announced that le e would be glad slad to have his office used 3 a as a house for tor mon men who had t-had had had teams and were willing to do plow- plow plowIng plowing Ing and tho those e who wanted plowing t done 6 The offer is without charge either r to the teamster tel or those who may want his hiS' services for plowing I ivill m support any ordinance resolution reso- reso lution or measure that will mean the cultivation of or more land and the raising raisIng rais rats ing of ot larger crops There is little need for land to raise nothing but a. a crop of or weeds when IB Is needed Everything that I can do to aid in the raising o of bigger crops In Salt Lake county this year will be done said eald County Commissioner J. J S. S Lindsey With Plan I l 1 am with tho the plan heart hear and soul sou I and will wm leave nothing undone on my more and part to tomke m the tho raising raisinS of or more bigger crops in Salt Lake this summer a 3 success And nd let me say that In addition ad ad- to m my support for an any movement that will m bring the land owner anthe an and the the producer the producer who has hs no land together bas as m my utmost support Let pie pe also gIve I c m my assurance that as commissioner commis commis- Ioner of or waterworks I promise that e effort of m my department will vill bo bu bui 1 i devoted should I it t be bo necessary to see Ice that water is furnished for every en war warI I garden arden in Salt S Lake during 1918 said Commissioner C C. Clarence I I am most mon certainly ce In favor o of an any plan phin that will mean the cultivation of or orI I land that was not cultivated last year cari car i i. i If It the state laws will wI permit I will ad advocate ad- ad lot that the ocate taking over 0 ever every owner will not plow and plant and without a rental charge Let someone i have havo It for tor the year car who ho would cultivate I vate it If the owner of land even cn though he be has no interest in Salt Lake save what he expects to get out of or an Investment has no more patriotism In times thues like this than to let his land produce prok pro pro- k duce duee nothing but a crop of ot unsightly weeds I hope some way wa ma may bo be found either to give the the- theland land to someone else i ito to cultivate te during the war or to comPel oom- oom Pel the owner o to produce a crop other r than weeds weede said Mayor W W. Mont ont Ferr Ferry Fery Charles F. F Stillman chairman of or the thet t board lard of county bounty commissioners is out of or tho the city but assurance was given c. c last flight that he would v do r e everything In n his rower power to aid any movement for foro greater freater crops in Utah this year rear o |
