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Show THE CALL FOR GARDENERS. It is a world of lean years. Its food lies in this year's crops. The reserves will be exhausted at the end of the crop year. The outlook is not too roseate. The English wheat crop is reported backward, the Dutch small. French wheat will yield less than usual. usu-al. Argentina -will have little wheat or corn to export. The' Australian wheat crop is estimated at nearly 50,000,000 bushels less than last year's. Our big winter wheat states, have not had moisture enough. Early vegetables in'the southern states .have been nipped by frost. -So -the shortage goes. . ,. if (CI '"if u ' t. -- i j. , Food pricesare high already, This careless, easy-goinget'icajnust easy-goinget'icajnust .remember, the-ant -and prepare fo.r jiexfjviriter. "One-thing nearly all of us outside the cities,- and many urbans, can do. vThat is to raise all we can, .olthe, common vegetables, so easy to raise, tKriving'.'almost everywhere, so large a part of our food. We can't import them. We must grow them; and they, should be grown in quantities unheard of, before; grown by the rich and, the more they sell the better-U-by the poor, by the great mass that is neither. I. Beans, onions, peas, potatoesandthe rest; these should be the crop ol everybody witn lana enough .'to bend over in. Those vacant lots, the sorrow sor-row of single taxers and often the eyesore of prim villages'and suburbs, should be made to blossom like the early rose. Selectmen, town committees, town trustees, and' councilors,' spy out the vacant cultivatable land and see that it is tickled with the plow. ' Commuters, who farm for exercise and pleasure, or say you do, this is the spring when you need to farm for business. More ground for garden this year; and garden for vegetables, not for ornament. Why not do something necessary, fruitful, a public pub-lic service. A great deal less space this year, if you please, for flowers to arouse your neighbor's envy and take the dust of motor cars. A potato vine in place of peonies this year. Come peace or war, the country has to be fed. Will you do your part to feed yourselves and it? Less sweep of lawn, fewer beds of flowers; the potato parterre's the thing this spring. -New York Times. " : |