Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-17
COMMITTEE ADVISES NO
 WASTE OF FERTILIZER
Too Valuable a Commodity to Be Use,
 on Lawns.

The Connecticut committee of food | supply, appointed last week by Gov ! Marcus Fl. HoIcomb has made two iIn- portant suggestions to the people Of 1 Connecticut for assisting in the work | of increasing. the food production in | the state this year.
 Tn view of the situation which l confronts Connecticut, as well a s every state in the country, there must be no waste of fertilizer this year. said q statement issued by tho committee. The people of the state, if they want to help in the matter of increas- 1 ing our food production so that we l may be as nearly self -sus staining as possible, must forego beautiful lawns this year, to a certain extent. Fer ] tilizer is too valuable a commodity in the situation which we now face to be used on lawns. Such use in these days IS nothing but waste The farmers are finding some difficulty ip securing adequate supplies Of fertilizer. Every the lawns reduces just so much the supply available for ground which will produce food products. The people Of Connecticut should see it as their Beautiful lawns and permit the fer ti1izer thus saved to do it's part toward the production Of foodstUffs.' The second suggestion made by the
 
 estates postpone this year ali improve n1ents which can be put off and which would take labor that otherwise would be available for work on the farms. The statement of the committee Says:
 One of the greatest problems which we face in this state in the matter of food producing is the question Of la abor. We must have men to work on the farms if we are to grow crops Labor hired for improvements on landed es- tates is. for the most part, labor taken away from the farmers. We believe that Connecticu|s citizens will realize the matter of improvements on their estates and thus not compete with the farmers for the labor which the farm CTS need"
 The committee has opened an office in Hartford and the members have begun working out the program which will be advanced to the people of the state.
 The committees one aim at present is to devise ways and means whereby Connecticuts food production this year may be increased to the highest pos sible point. The methods by which this will be accomplished are now be- ing worked out and the first part Of the committees program will be an- nounced within a few days.
 Many individuals and organizations have taken up plans for increasing the food crop this year. There are home garden committees in many Connecti- cut towns and cities The plans of the governors committee on food sup ply will in no way interfere with the factors which are already working for the same purpose. The effort will be to coordinate all work along these lines, to encourage the effort of indi- viduals and groups. and to help any man or any organiza ton which has a plan for increasing Connecticut's food production.
 We want the cooperation of every man, woman and child in Connecticut" said statement issued by the com mittee yesterday. We want sugges- tions, we want help. We need the cordial support of the entire state to put through this great undertaking which means so much to Connecticc.- In the past the state has produced not
 more than one-ffth of the food it has consumed, and we have had to rely upon the surplus Of other states. This year that surplus will be small. Our only hope is to utilize the land of our own state to the utmost. We must use every means possible to increase the states production of foodstuffs. Every person who can do anything toward that end should do it, and may be assured of the cordial CO operation of the committee"