| Show Another nother Vict Victory ry G Garden Challenge Challengers Challenger's ITS IT'S rs r's SPRING and Victory garden garde time again And it is if anything anything anything any- any thing more important than last last year th that t everyone cooperate ti to the full on supplementing the nations nation's s 's normal co commercial mercial supply of fresh vegetables through yard back-yard and spare-lot spare Victory gardens Dont Don't be deceived aboul the nations nation's food supply because of recent reductions in point values of canned and frozen n vegetables This is a temporary situation Our supplies of processed food are relatively good right now now and and it is due directly to the very excellent response of Americans to the 1943 Victory garden appeal Had it not been for those gardens we wei i would have been very short of such food this year The Victory t j gardens of the nation last year produced almost one-half one of the they y vegetables grown in the country r But this good food supply situation will not hold for the coming year unless once again patriotic Americans roll up their sleeves and plant gardens In fact food experts say we will need greater Victory garden production this year to assure an adequate adequate ade ade- f quate domestic food supply There are several good reasons reasons for their statement nt and the reasons were explained at a lecture on Victory gardening in the Tribune-Telegram Tribune auditorium Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night by Dr Arvil L L. Stark state extension division horticulturist horticulturist horticulturist horti horti- and chairman of the Utah Victory garden committee Dr Stark declared flatly the nations nation's food supply situation today is the most critical it has ever been This year there are more men in the armed forces than forces than ever before before and and they eat twice as much as does the average civilian Civilians lians because they have more money are eating half again as much as they normally do We are sending about 15 per cent of our total food supply to our allies a and d that must continue during the coming year Wit With the scheduled invasion of Europe this year we will take on the added task of supplying food for the liberated peoples peoples peo peo- ples pies of occupied Europe The situation is just this said Dr Stark Our supply of processed food is less than it has been in recent years and the demand for such processed food for shipment to our arm armed d dr r forces to our allies and to liberated d peoples of Europe Europ will be greater than ever It means less processed foods for civilian consumption and the lack must be made up by more home production production production pro pro- and storage of vegetables The government this year is aiming at Victory gar gardens ns Last year there were In addition they are asking for greater production per garden They w want nt all told 25 per cent more vegetables They are especially urging Victory gardeners to plant at different times to maintain coni continuous con con- i production throughout the growing season Plant less at t a time but oftener Plant more fall crops C Concentrate n on greens and tomatoes for high nutritional nutrition l content And buy the best seeds t |
