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Show VEGETABLE SEEDS TO EUROPE BRING FRIENDSHIP CROP j Seeds of American friendship literally are sprouting over parts of Europe this month. They are garden seeds, bought with money raised in a nationwide nation-wide campaign by 4-H club members. The total amount of seed shipped is not yet known. But some individual state examples ex-amples will give you an idea of what the boys and girls accomplished. accompli-shed. In three months, Iowa 4-H'ers sent nearly $10,000 worth enough to raise vegetables that would fill a train of refrigerator cars six miles long. Minnesota's 2,000 4-H clubs and 56 rural youth groups contributed contri-buted 'enough seeds to grow vegetables vege-tables for a thousand large families. fam-ilies. Michigan's $2,386 fund bought more than 600 package cartons of seed, costing $3.95 per carton. Each package contained a two-pound two-pound assortment of 20 familiar vegetables, with variations for northern and southern Europe. Seeds were packaged and shipped ship-ped by 93 wholesale seed houses throughout the U. S. Foreign distribution was handled by Church World Service, Inc., a non-profit organization, assisted by our occupation forces. In each package was a "thank-you" "thank-you" card for the European youth receiving the package to send to the club whose money bought tire package. In Tolland County, 0 Conn., some 200 boys and girls now are corresponding with gardeners of their own ages in Germany. The campaign seems to have started last armistice Day, when the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Pamona, Cal., sent 25 shipments ship-ments of garden seeds and tools to 25 European cities. At the same time, they sent , a resolution to President Truman, urging a wider adoption of the plan. The nation's 4-H clubs put the campaign cam-paign on an organized national basis. 1 |