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Show H RAIDING GARDENS. B Some people look at garden products as almost common I property. The hosts of people who are putting hard labor into garden this spring are beginning to ask just how safe their products are going to be in the dark of the m moon by and by, when vegetables and fruits are matured. B In the outskirts of the larger towns there always seem B to be people who know the location of all the promising B, crops, and who can do a very good stroke of business on B the dark night with capacious bags. Some of them in B automobiles, too, indicating that they are not always peo- B Pk on tne hunger fringe of life. Their point of view is B that the owner of a good big field of potatoes will never B miss a few pecks. B Raids by boys on fruit trees are often condoned by B people of high respectability. When a man comes back B after a succeessf ul life to receive honors in his home town, B he is apt to brag about the apples and pears he stole as B the tough kid of the neighborhood. And he is applauded B j for it, too. But the boy who makes free with grapes and B plums may later conclude that the owner of the cash B ', drawer will never miss some of his shiny coins. B In former years fruit and vegetables were so abundant B ' that they were given away. Great quantities of them B ' rotted on the ground. The prices were so low that it did B ' ' not pay to hire labor to pick them up. Under these con- H " ditions it was perfectly natural that they were looked at H in a different light from ordinary forms of property. H Food supplies are now short, labor scarce, and every H garden now being planted will represent effort and some H ' money. Raiding it will be just like rifling a cash drawer. H , One result of the school garden movement has been to H change the feeling of children about stealing fruit. After H they have put labor and pains into their little tract they H , get the point of view of the owner. The many people who H n 'are gardening this year will demand protection and they H tire entitled to it. t |