Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-02
SOCRATES URGED
YARD GARDENING
Wise Old Man Said Cultivation
of Earth Is Profitable
Employment

Speaking of backyard gardening,
a wise old man by the name of Soc
rates said many, many years ago,
The cultivation of the earth is an
excellent employment, most worthy
of the application of man; the most
ancient and most suitable to his ma
ture and condition in life. 1t is the
source of health, strength, plenty and
riches and of thousand sober de-
lights and honest pleasures"
The old man who had considerable
to do with the glory that was Greece
may have been more of a philosopher
than a farmer, but he nailed truth
here that, like others, has stood the
test of centuries. His advice is ac-
cordingly recommended to ALL es-
pecially to those who are still perched
on the fence trying to chose between
the spade and the garden patch and
the pipe and the piazza as the form
of their pleasure and relaxation in the
cool of the evening this coming spring
and summer.
Expects Gold Mine
A garden enthusiast was telling a
| friend on Walnut street yesterday that
| his backyard garden will be a Veritable
| gold mine before he gets through with
| 1t next fall. She said, War and the
tariff have shot the price of every
thing out of sight and the chances
are prices will so higher. But it's our
own fault if we get soaked for vege-
| tables. Any person who goes around
; kicking about the price of potatoes
next summer and who has land
enough to grow a few bushels but
| doesn't, deserves to get soaked good
and hard. Grow potato that's the
slogan these days around my place,
and just watch me dig-dig COLDS
| equivalent out of that little patch of
mine next summer"
To Cooperate With Commission
The HARRISBURG TELEG RAPH
has just obtained the cooperation of
the National Emergency Food Garden
Commission, of Washington, ID. c., and
the expert advice of that organization
will be incorporated in garden
articles.
The commission is affiliated with
! the American Forestry Association
whose work in saving the forests is
nation wide. Charles Lathrop Pack,
of Lakewood, n. j., is the president
of the forestry association and the
commission. Other members of the
| commission are: DR.. Charles w. Eliot.
of Cambridge John Grier Hibben, of
Princeton; John Hays Hammond, of
Massachusetts; Emerson Macmillan,
of New York City; A. w. Shaw, editor
of System Magazine, Chicago; Captain
]. b. White, of the U. S. Shipping
Board; Carl Vrooman, assistant sec
retary of agriculture. Readers of the
TELEGRAPH will see that from such
commission the garden information
will be the best obtainable.
With the high cost of living the
most important topic of the day a
nation wide movement has been start
ed by the commission to urge the peo-
pie to do more planting for them
selves. The farming business is the
biggest business in the country and
the plan is to make it bigger by
bringing home gardening closer to the
town and city man.
In a way it is a preparedness meas
ure, for every ounce of our resources
will need to be conserved in the event
of war. But whether war or not. a de-
crease in the cost of things to eat is a
big question.
Any questions about gardening will
be answered by THE TELEGRAPH.
Now is the time to make your plans.
With expert advice you will start
right and thus insure best results.