Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-04 | Page 4 | The Amateurs

THE AMATEURS. They have cheeked up on the war gardens. The crop estimate is placed at $525, 000, 000, .00 according to the figures of the War Garden Commission. Commis-sion. National advertisers have a picturesque pic-turesque habit of expressing large totals in graphic form. "One year's output of Bunk's Chewing Gum stretched at full tension would reach to the moon." "The String Soap Works ship enough carloads each day to shave the Bolsheviki." We -would like to figure how many corrots and spinach can feed a given number, "but it is more practical to guess how miany gardeners contributed to the magnificent total. Be good sports, you folks of Sanpete. San-pete. Give the big cities some of the credit. Those flat-dwellers who did their share had more to learn than we had, and many must have felt that their contribution wouldn't make an appreciable ap-preciable difference. But you don't tneed an ophthalmologist to help you to read eleven figures in a row an aggregation of assembled infinites .mals. The amount would have been much larger if the amateurs had known that a garden needs preparation in the fall as much as in the spring. Ignorance of this has meant failure for many of the novices, and now is the time to do the tilling and fertilizing fertiliz-ing that will atone for the ommissions of last year.