Show I CAMP LEWIS SICK GET FOOD FROM OWN OM GARDEN By Associated Press J I CA CAMP P LEWIS T Wash July Digging 10 Digging trenches Is not the Uie only way in fn which the soil of th this s cantonment is disturbed One One might think f so so sofrom from a visit over the trainIng training train train- ing grounds but about bout a mile roUe down the bushy bushy land past Greene Greene- park there is a garden plot of twenty acre acres acres' where vegetables are raised to help helI supply the base hospital mess mesa The garden was wa started early this spring and Just a as fast as a a portion of land could be plowed and harrowed it was planted and another another- plot was prepared They still sun are plowing and harrowing though some of the land undoubtedly will not produce a crop this year Between thirty five and forty men medical corps base hospital personnel person person- nd nel are detailed as farmers A team of horses is provided for plowing and hauling but the real work is done with the he hoe and manpower It isn't bad badt was the answer of or orone one man to a question as to how he liked farming for th the army Its a whole lot better than Jhan kitchen police pollee and besides I farmed farmed- before I came up here from California It I I. healthful work as the browned faces and arms testify and they are producing a r real ral al crop There are peas beans beets radishes lettuce cabbage and every every vegetable common to the coast states But the twenty acres acre's acres of vegetables do not last long longin in the hospital mess where it takes a a. dozen sacks of potatoes potatoes pota pota- toes for fora a a meal and a half halt dozen cases of corn or or tomatoes for a side dish of vegetables The of the garder Is to supply fresh tresh vegetables for the hospital p patients At t times there are areas arEas areas as many as as' as 2000 persons in the hospital hospital hos hos- pital and their recovery is more rapid if they have V the fresh vegetables direct from tl the e hospital hopital gardens A small S str stream am m flows through the garden keep keeping ng- ng the ground grund moist The soil is n naturally rich and a bIgger bigger bigger big bIg- ger crop sho should d be produced next year 6 C. C E. E Leverich Leverl tr trainmaster of ot the D. D R. R G iii in hi S Salt lt Lake has ac accepted c an important in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington D. D C C. in Iii the traffic department nt of ot the Thompson-Starrett Thompson company which is engaged in building munitions plants for the government ov I |