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Show A WAR-GARDEN EXHIBIT In San Fmneitco a bank held a war-garden war-garden exhibit last summer of the produce pro-duce that one of its employes had raised rais-ed on a plot of land 100x30 feet Six hens and some Belgian hares wore ihe live stock of the miniature farm. Most of their food came from a! patch of alfalfa 25 feet square. The 1 hens had. among them, an average of four eggs a day to their credit, and the young Belgian hares meant a substantial substan-tial saving in the meat and poultry' bills. From a plot 45x27 feet in size, seven sacks of potatoes were raised, and between be-tween the rows grew squashes. Green peas which yielded an ample supply lor the table during the four months of summer were planted on ground 12x18 feet. Other vegetables grew in smaller 1 plots and over the garden fence train- j ed berries which made a notable showing at the exhibit. The United States Food Administration Administra-tion is showing that producing and! conserving food are both necessary steps towards winning the war. See what kind of a plot you can do-velop do-velop See if you cannot better the, record of this San Francisco man who worked all day in an ollice and devoted his after-hours service to such a splendid splen-did act of thrift and valuation. Plan to grow next summer something that will be a substitute for the wheat, the meat, the fats and the sugar which must go to our allies. |