Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-24
PLoUGHs NEEDED FOR
 THE HOME GARDENS
Committee Could Use Half a Dozen
 Teams for Week.

The great need today in the locat home garden movement is one of men and teams to blow the lots that have been pledged tor the season by local people. The secretary of the commit tee said Monday that there seems to be a lacEz>of teams. We could use half a dozen teams for a week. he contin- ued and if anyone has a team they can provide for. this important and pa triotic duty he may communicate with the chamber of commerce. We expect to pay full value for all such services.
 In addition to the assignments all ready made there has been lot as- signed to Arthur L. Peaie. This lot pledged by Rev. Joseph H. Selden. A lot pledged by Traver Briscoe has been assigned to Horatio Bigelow and a lot on Washington street pledged by Mrs. Charming M. Huntington has been assigned to Miss Augusta C. Ely. The committee has d number of appiica = tions for lots and other assignments are expected shortly.
 To each one to whom a lot is as- signed the secretary sends a letter, giving the number of the plot, the name of the person by. whom it was pledged and the location. The letter then goes on to say: We shall put upon this land. and harrow in, one hundred pounds of fertilizer. You will be ex pectcd to pay the home gardens com rnittee, George II. LOring. treasurer, for the actual expense of preparation of this plot Your plot will be subject to inspection at any time by members of the committee or their hired ser Vants You are also expected to keep an accurate account Of all crops raised on this plot and furnish the same to the committee.
 The home garden committee are having four large signs erected in diff ferent parts of the city calling atten- ton to the available garden plots. r,ser 1a fod (Tuesday). One of the signs reads:
 Home Garden Committee
 Be a Patriot. Raise enough for all your needs. Use the Hoe to Fight the Weeds.
 Another reads:
 Home Garden Committee
 Free for All. Garden plots. 50x1oO. Apply to Norwich Chamber of Com merce.
 Among the latest pledges of land is a tract on the westerly side of Wash inston street owned by Miss Jane E. Bill. Miss Bill has been appointed a the National League for Women's Service, which committee is with the home garden committee.
 H. R. Woodward has pledged four lots off Asylum street, and Mrs. ". w. Beckwith has pledged land on West Thames street. The Norwich Golf club has offered the unused portions
  fer was made through the president of the club, Horatio Bigelow.
 The state board of agriculture has issued the following statement to the farmers of Connecticut:
 War has been declaredi With it comes the patriotic duty and obliga- tion of the farmer to his country to exert to his utmost his full energies to at least equal his recent years &C., tivities.
 uya ra,1;zo tbe djf5cultfes fhs+ vor will have to meet in your inability to get sufficient laborers to carry out plans which you may make to in crease or maintain your former efforts in producing our food products. We cannot conscientiously urge you to plant more than you can see your way clear to care for in the up-to-date methods of present time agriculturet- business from a selfish standpoint but will assist in maintaining our food supply, if we cannot get the Iaborers to make the intensive growing of crops extensive as well.
 It is possible that you may see your way clear to make some changes in the kind of crops which you will pro- duce.
 The high price of seed potatoes will deter many from planting them. We advise the use, if seed potatoes cannot be obtained, of market potatoes, for this purpose, soaking them first thor oughly in a formaldehyde solution. Raise enough for your own family use, and as many more as your Labor Problem" will permit We believe that any surplus which you have can be disposed of at satisfactory prices.
 We also advise the planting of at least enough beans for family use.
 Pledges to grow nearly 50,000 bush eLs more of food crops in Connecticut this year than in 1915 have already been received by the Connecticut committee of food supply from 92 of ,he 500 tobacco farmers who met on Thursday at the state capitol on the ,all of Governor Marcus H. Holcomb md his food supply committee. Addi- ionaI pledges from thas tobacco men Ire being received at the food commit ees headquarters in every mail.
 The tobacco farmers were urged to