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Show 18.000,000 Victory Gardens The suggestion is made that all families, with available land area, plan a victory garden and the Department of Agriculture says that two-thirds of the 18,-000,000 18,-000,000 gardens desired should be on city, town or suburban lots. Everybody, including those on the farms, are urged to produce and preserve as much as possible pos-sible of their food needs. This is good advice, under present circumstances for non-farm folks I and, in any year, for those who live on our farms. The city garden plot, says H. W. Hochbaum,' of the department's depart-ment's committe on victory gardens' gar-dens' should be not less than 30 by 50, or 50 by 100 feet. "An average of one hour a day," he adds, "will do wonders in the way of supplying vegetables, both fresh and preserved, for the family." We will have to take the authority au-thority of the Department of Ag-ricluture's Ag-ricluture's expert on what "one hour a day" will accomplish in the way of producting vegetables but we know it will do much for the health of the head of the family. Even if the crop is not so bountiful as expected and the cost of vegetables produced somewhat excessive the dividends, divi-dends, in the way of health, will make a garden plot worth while. We Can Buy and Store Food Herbert Hoover, former President, Presi-dent, who fed the Belgians, is cencerned with the problem thai the victorious United Spaces will face when peace comes and they have three or four hundred million mil-lion starving people to feed. This is a natural concern because be-cause starvation on such a scale would impair the just reorganization reorgani-zation of the world on a basis of peace. The American farmer is being asked to plant large crops for the purpose of feeding our civilians, our armed forces and those oi our allies, and to create a reserve for use when peace comes. There is another source of possible pos-sible suplies when the war ends. In South America the nations will undoubtedly be able to produce pro-duce more agricultural products than they can ship. With U-boatsseverely U-boatsseverely limiting the transportation trans-portation of food overseas it ought to be possible to accumulate accumu-late large reserves of food in South America. For example. Argentina is a wheat growing country and possess pos-sess great potentialities as a source of meat. Why not make an arrangement with the Argentineans, Argen-tineans, and other nations, to plant the food, store it and have it available for prompt shipment when the U-boat menace is ended, end-ed, with the advent of peace, and there will be ample cargo vessels to carry it around the world? , |
