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Show J JH I Enlisting Support of All. IH Many cities and towns made a fine start IH last year, and many places in and about this city were In tho van. Somo of tho H most successful women farmers were- turned out from tho agricultural school at Farmingdalc, L I., while unusually successful farms were conducted by -worn-en, somo of them most prominent In the country's social life, at Scarsdale, Scar-boro Scar-boro and nearby Connecticut, Long Island and Now Jersoy points. At tho estate of IH Mrs. De Lanccy NIcoll, near Ossinlng, tho H Girl Scouts worked on tho gardens throughout tho summer and raised tho 'H very finest kind of vegetables. Ono ll woman, nlnoty-four years of ago, Mrs, IH Thomas Edwards, of Obcrlln, Ohio, cared ll for a gnrden and raided vegetables for her children and grandchildren. IH Persons of all nationalities and races IH Joined hands in thc great endeavor. Mrs. IH Harriet Bone Necklace, a full blooded Sen-ecn, Sen-ecn, living on tho Pine RIdgo Agency, North Dakota, planted a garden and won IH a prize and a national cortlflcato for tho canned vegetables which sho exhibited. At tho plant or tho Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, in Arizona, more than JH 3,000 foot abovo sea lovel, employes of many nationalities Mexicans, Indians, ,H Poles, Chilians, Italians, Austrian. H Swedes, Finns and others grew tons of vegetables upon land furnished by tho company and divided Into individual plots. Other manufacturing and Industrial con- IH corns throughout the United States also assisted their employes In a similar man- '1 The National War Garden Commission. H In addition to Mr. Pack and Mrs. Sher-man, Sher-man, consists ofsucr recognized author!-ties author!-ties on gardening as Luther Burbank, Call-fornla; Call-fornla; Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Massachu-sotts; Massachu-sotts; Dr. Irving Fisher, Yalo University: Fred H. Goff. Clovoland, O.; John Haya Hammond, Massachusetts; Fairfax Har- rlson, president of tho Southern Rallwav, Vlrslnia; Myron T. Hcrrlck, formerly American Ambassador to Franco, of Ohio; Dr. John Grler Hlbbcn, president of Prlncotori University; Emerson McMJllcn 1 Now York; A. W. Shaw, Illinois; Captain J. V. White, 'Missouri; Jamas Wilson, for- , merly Secretary of Agriculture, Iowa, and H P. S. Rldsdalc, Washington, D. C, aocrc- H tnry-lrcasurcr and goncrnl director of tho H |