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Show 118 WAGE EARNERS 10 PRODUCE CROPS Land Merchants Urging a Wider Use of Homesites in Utah. In order to help city people to reaJize the importance of producing their own food, Kimball & Richards are carrying on a vigorous campaign to iuduce wage earners to secure a garden homesite on easy monthly payments. They point to the fact that the man -who buys a lot now is six months ahead of the man who waits till spring, because he can prepare his soil during the open winter months and plan his garden during the cold weather. Then, with the first breath of spring, he knows exactly what j to do, and as a result his garden is a success. On the other hand, the man who waits till spring not only takes chances on finding-a suitable place, but has to do all his preparation and planning plan-ning in a rush, and as a result does not have the same chance to raise a good garden as the first man. It is highly important that a successful gardener know something about the nature of the soil, the general lay of his ground, etc., and that he have a thoroughly workable plan as to just what he intends to raise. By delaying this matter till late spring, as all too many people do, real truck garden success is not achieved. If a man decides, for instance, this winter that he will raise so many square rods of potatoes, so many iows of beans, so many tomatoes, cabbage, onions, celery, cel-ery, etc., and if he has all these items carefully worked out on a paper plan and drawn to scale to exactly meet the requirements of his new garden lot, he certainly stands a much oetter chance to harvest a big and profitable crop than if be did this work off-hand and in a rush next spring. Kimball & Richards contend that it is the patriotic duty of every man, who does not fight, to be a food producer. They go even further and claim that a man has not done his full duty until he does his utmost to seriously increase the production of his garden to its highest efficiency. This is the work Kimball & Richards are helping to carry on in their big "war parden" camnain. ajnd their ef forts have been brought to the attention' atten-tion' of the national emergency garden commission, whose chairman has expressed ex-pressed a deep interest in the campaign of this Salt Lake firm of land merchants. |