Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-06-01
how CHILDREN. CAN
HELP OUT FINANCES
Great Deal Of Garden Truck"
Will Grow on a Mighty
Small Space.

Small Space.
From the st. Louis Fost-Dispatch
The department of agriculture in
Washington has begun this spring an
experiment In the cultivation of back
yards in Memphis, Tenn. which, it is
believed, will greatly reduce the cost of
living to thousands of families In that
city and which if it is successful there.
vii! be extended to other cities. 1t is
believed 1t will eventually reduce the
cost of living of the American people
by $500, 00O,0 900.
The city OF Memphis has raised $4,000
for the experiment, and has deposited
it in the bank for the use of the de-
partment OF agriculture in instructing
the school children and for superin-.
tending their work in the c%ultivating Of
the back yards.
DR.. S. A. Knapp, chief of the CO.
operation demonstration Office in the
department of agriculture, has sent o.
M. Watson, a special expert in practi-
cal gardening. to Memphis. Miss Lillian.
w. ohnson has been appointed by
Memphis to work with him.
Or. Knapp says. in talking of the
Memphis plan: THE back yard garden
yard 30x30 feet, or 1900 square feet.
On this space can be produced all of
the vegetables for the family for an
entire season-tomatoes, peas. onions,
beets, beans. lettuce, radishes and pos
sibly some potatoes, which usually re-
quire more space. Many of these vege-
tables will be in quantities sufficient
for canning. consequently causing a.
reduction OF the table expenses during
the winter.
I'm addition against the walls. cur
rants, grapes and other small fruit can
be raised in northern sections and
grapes can be grown everywhere.
n in the suburbs of Memphis
other food supplies, such as Irish po-
!tatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other
products of that i can be raised.
Il should say that this would reduce
the cost of living-and it is low es-
.timate-$50 per year in the smaller
gardens. 1t will save more thar $50,
because the vegetables will be fresh
and people will learn to eat more vege-
tables and less meat.
1T would save one-half of their food Z
expenses. Five in q family will necesIs.
state paying a groceryman $50 peaI
month. This includes the butcher, ana
II you TAX out meat, the bill will
amount to about $25. This would also |
include some things like butter. I
would say that il the plan were adopted /
by such a family 1t would mea a sav-
Ing OF SO per month or $500 a year,"
5. DR.. Knapp says that his department ]
AAsAS ~ RAONSu k4L0S OOyS d O0 E
depended On to make great successesS
at gardening when they are rightly4
taught and their interest in the subject
aroused. Such boys are those who be-
long to an organization of the Boys
lCorn club In Louisiana, and pay special
visits OF observation to the state. ex-
pertinent farm; or, individually, little
Joe Stone. who earned his diploma in
Georgia for a corn crop Of 1O2 bushels;
Earl Hopping, at Rogers, Ark, who
'hndnSf 0nv hnNon onI SS.rk 3<4to go
a goat and went to work on his mea-
sured acre: Jerry Moore. of Winona, S.
&C., who actually raised 228 bushels of
ear corn to his acre; the Virginia boy
who took out 80 bushels; and the lad at
Dubberly-the names a real one-in
Webster Parish, Louisiana, who raised
a crop nearly twice as tall as himself
and thick as a jungle beside his fathers
stand. which looked like a bald head
after a nightmare.
!, These instances DIR. Knapp harked
back to In the course Of his conversa-
ton about the Memphis experiment.. He
remarked:
THE genesis Of the high price of
foods for the masses lies in the fact
that such a large body OF people have
ceased to be producers Of food prod.
sucts. For instance. there are now
about 1000, 900 men employed by rail-
roads, and, counting Ave to a family,
this would represent 10, 100000 people.
AZ Ol0Sli llliieS, every VOller produced
food on his little place, but these TO-
.OOO, 600 people are withdrawn from the
class that produces, and are now ION.
sumers.
There are about 5000, 900 employees
In the manufacturing industries Of the
country. Allowing that one-half Of
them are men, they would represent
about 5000, 900 people; and, by reason
OF the fact that the factories have con.
centrated in cities and towns, these
families have ceased to be producers
OF food. So that %, 00O, 900 people. In
GLIDING railroad employees and employees
in manufacturing industries. are sim.
ply consumers.
1t has been charged that the high
price Of o is due to combinations.
or In some cases to packers. or to
wholesalers, or to retailers. do not
think that they are the causes Il is
possible their prices may be more
n ought to be exacted In some cases:
put no remedy be found by assail-
ing them, because they are necessarily
q part Of our civilization. and are des-
tined to have their per cent. which at
least must amount to a living profit. No
amount OF public censure can materials
~ change the situation.
1.-THE real remedy lies in causing
these 2b.000.000 OF toilers to raise their
Q supply"
II the experiment in Memphis n a
success II will be gradually extended to
other cities.
PLANTING BULBS IN MAY.
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