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Show THE RESULTS OF THE GARDENS. r As one looks about, it is now possible to estimate the results of the nation-wide movement made last spring to start home gardens. Many a back yard that never knew a hoe before, has this year blossomed out and brought forth real food. School gardens, which wise skeptics said would soon be all weeds, have really brought forth good returns. A lot of people have been given an impetus toward to-ward outdoor life and there must be some permanent results re-sults from it. Probably some of these people will now make home gardens for a regular thing, even after the war emergency is passed. Food prices are permanently high, and home vegetables will come in handy always. The work takes time that otherwise would be non-productively employed. When a man spends his leisure hours weeding and hoeing, instead of loafing around hangouts, he is adding to the production of the country and his own comfort. The results attained have had a large aggregate. The 100,000,000 bushels surplus of potatoes raised in the whole country can not be wholly credited to the farmers. As the little stocks come out of the home bins, the surplus is likely to become bigger still. There will be a great difference differ-ence when it's seen that many families that used to draw on the grocer every week can now eat from their own stores. It has been a common sight to see little town backyard back-yard plots, half as large as the ground floor of the house, bring forth their ten bushels of potatoes. When to that you add peas and beans and corn and root crops and green stuff, the aggregate is a real help. Now the thing to do is to keep up the good work another an-other year. This spring's gardening campaign started late, as we did not enter the war and realize our situation until April. For next year's spring campaign there will be plenty of time for preparation. Every garden will be needed. Those who made a failure of it may think more hopefully about it before the winter is over. They will reflect that this work in the open air was not so bad after all. They could surely avoid the mistake that queered them this year. |