Show WAR GARDENS ON ON HALF ACRE FARMS Profitable R Returns turns Made on Subdivision Near Salt Lake That a war garden is a very profitable profitable profitable pro pro- thing to have in ones one's backyard backyard backyard back back- yard has been demonstrated by a great many owners of half acre farms and big garden lots at Homefield Homefield Homefield Home- Home field Acres Burton Acres Southgate park parl and other subdivisions of Kimball Kimball Kim- Kim ball Richards Land Merchants An exhibit showing what some sonie some of ot these war gardeners have produced this year is now being displayed in inthe inthe inthe the big window at Kimball Richards Richards Richards Rich Rich- ards at 64 54 Main street One man produced all the food tood needed for himself and family for tho the summer then stored all the winter vegetables required for the family and still cleared in cash from the sale of fresh garden produce all on a half haIr acre Another man produced such an array of garden products that it requires a large display card to list them all Practically every vegetable vegetable vegetable vege vege- table grown in this climate totaling more than a score of varieties were raised and in addition this man raised two thirty-two ducks two geese thirty- thirty five rabbits and two pigs Another man John F. F Buckley of Burton Acres subdivision was awarded second prize at the state fair for his fine exhibit of potatoes raised on a aVar war Var garden Other property owners in this section produced some splendid tubers celery cabbage cauliflower cauliflower cauliflower caul caul- onions squash corn etc and the outlook for next year is most promising for even better crops Scores of property owners in this garden tracts are getting ready to prepare their land for early spring gardening If the ground is plowed this fall the success of next years year's crops is assured as the winter moisture moisture mois mors- ture turo is better able to penetrate and the soil is broken up and made more suitable for plant life In line with the announcement that Salt Lake school children this year produced more than worth of foodstuffs on war gardens Kimball Richards have opened a big drive to induce wage earners and salaried men to do their part by getting a garden tract and preparing it for next spring They point out that it will be far more important to raise I ones one's own food next year than it was this year because as long as the war var lasts foodstuffs will be scarcer each year |