Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-05 | Page 12 | Varsity Teachers as War Gardeners Growing Proficient in Using the Hoe

VARSITY TEACHERS AS WAR GARDENERS e3 & 3 & GROWING PROFICIENT IN USING THE HOE JE. M 'KNIGHT, left, professor of elementary education in the TJniver- sity of Utah, who has had his vacation cultivating a half acre war garden. The other is C. D. Steiner, professor of agricultural education. He is in the act of exterminating pests. Ctkt i 4 S&L tsL v-., - - - :m Wives, Too, Join in Game of Coaxing Vegetables to Grow, GARDENING is the popular pastime this summer of nearly every man on the teaching staff of the University Universi-ty of Utah. The school furnishes the ground, the city provides the water and the farmer-pedagogue has only to wield the hoe. The wives, too, have joined in the merry game of hilling, irrigating ir-rigating and uprooting noxious weeds. Twelve acres of the finest war gardens in the land are the result of their combined com-bined labor. It is a rare kind of recreation recrea-tion for jaded teachers, and the best of all, it helps to keep down the high, cost of living. Each gardener has a plot of about one-sixteenth one-sixteenth of an acre, some as mucn as a half acre. The land was plowed last spring and turned over to the gardeners ready for planting. The city allows each one art irrigating stream once a week. The result is that the formerly unused south half of the campus is covered with lit tie gardens that are a source of both pleasure and profit. The largest garden Is cultivated to supply sup-ply vegetables to the university cafeteria. cafe-teria. It Is about three ' acres In area. This is one of tiie sources of incomes that make it possible for the popular eating place to provide a wholesome meal at a nominal cost. Experts have estimated that the gardens gar-dens should produce enorjgh vegetables to sell on the market for upwards of $40(M. Inspectors have pronounced them among the very best war gardens In the state.