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Show Victory Vegetables Are Grown in Large Department Store 'Farm Chicago's Loop, hub of the Middle Mid-dle West's business scene, now has its own "farm" area. In the Marshall Field & Co. store where thousands of dresses, items of furniture and children's apparel are customarily offered to the public, pub-lic, they've planted carrots, beets and onions, and set out a brooder of baby chicks all for the purpose of showing city folks that Victory gardens gar-dens are an important phase of our Battle for Food. Hives of bees a suggestion to sugar-rationed families buzz about in the department which has been opened in co-operation with the Office Of-fice of Civilian Defense, the Chicago park district, and the University of Illinois as an information center for prospective growers of Victory vegetables. vege-tables. In a 20 by 20 foot plot, rows of crisp vegetables are being tilled throughout the ten-week campaign, In order to provide first-hand proof of the productivity of small plots of land for skeptics who doubt the feasibility of the Victory garden program. pro-gram. Some indication of the Importance of the national campaign to enlist 21,000,000 Victory gardeners whose produce will supplement commercial commer-cial supplies of food Is found in a statement made by J. S. Russell, deputy director of the Food Distri bution administration, who officially opened the store "farm" and garden gar-den information center. "A nation-wide spadeup of the backyard plots of the country is the home-front's most important row to hoe in the war effort," said Mr. Russell in a national broadcast from the store. "Until every citizen plants a garden, he can't say he's really digging for all he's worth for Victory," Vic-tory," Mr. Russell commented. |
