Show I I I B Battles at ties Enemy En e my With Ith Spade Pioneer Is s War W ar Gardener r u j rt Watermelons ons on Program am I WILLIAM LLIAM SMOOT SMOOT- who first turned the soil of Utah in W 1847 is enthusiastically backing the boys in France M. M S rr 4 a. a r r ra a A I z l t r ti t H 5 r y y 1 4 s sY st Y t 4 r r n I max fr frt a r t 4 f S 'S 44 r w t JS 11 tI a LrE P F y Sugarhouse 5 Garden Is Model of Neatness and Efficiency in Raising Wartime Crops By Selma Miller When Uncle Sam called for war gardens gardens gar gar- I dens with which to help feed the de defenders defenders defenders de- de fenders of democracy somewhere in France he was answered by William WilliamI lam lamI I I Smoot the grand old man of Utah who shouldered his hoe with alacrity and hied bled himself to his garden patch patchIn In the interest of democracy Being one of the tho original band of or orI I I j pioneers to turn the soil in the valley for agricultural purposes Mr Smoot I knows know its peculiarities and exactly when to plant each each ach kind o of seed when he puts It in his war garden this year cal with the result that at present when I most Salt Lakers are getting gettin out their I almanacs to make malc sure o of planting has in his garden a time Mr Smoot I large number of vegetables well on the way wa to maturity hoc hoe for a Now wielding a spade or ox is 15 hard work number of hours each da day clay if he lie has become become become be be- for an any person peron especially luxuries that a accustomed to city come affords but Mr oIl Smoot works hour I the coaxing after hour without fatigue products of his garden Into growing ears old Although more than ninety years Liberty and undoubtedly the oldest farmer in the state this Utah pioneer the of cultivating one is patriotically IlY most productive and pretty war gardens gar gar- gardens gar gar- dens in the city Laid out in precisely with little silvery streams straight rows and with of water stripping the plot flowers and vines growing crowing abundantly for this time of the year the whole enough to looks picturesque scene Beene book have been cut from front a a. picture such products as Besides growing beans radishes beets turnips and po potatoes potatoes potatoes po- po whole Mr Smoot has planted a watermelons the watermelons the kind that field of I when ripe makes the mouth water cater I Demonstrating the enthusiasm and patriotism patriotism patrIotism pa pa- his farmer Carmer was of this aged of unoccupied plot o borrowing of an near his homo home In which ground he Intends to turn into a melon patch in Salt thinks that boys bors Mr Ir Smoot I those place In the world Lake Lale like any watermelons In tho the hot summertime summer ummer summertime relish time but to make malo sure euro that his patch is not stripped clean ho Ire says that he Continued on page pace S. S SJ f f r BATTLES ENEMY I Continued from page 1 I will win keep old Betsy his trusty rifle band handy I Enough vegetables are expected tobe tobo to tobe be bo raised by Mr Smoot this year for his bis wito to preserve for next winter Gardening to him Is one ono of or tho the greatest greatest greatest great great- est pleasures of ot his life especially it If It there are flowers to trim and to keep I In shape and vines to train and all the theother theother other pl pleasant little tasks connected with home homo gardening and according to him the work this year will bo be doubly pleasant because it will mean helping the brave bravo boys In Franco France |