Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-13
HOME eARDENs ARE
 PRODUCING BIG CROPS But Moot Important Part of Work Will Como During the Harvest Season..

But Moot Important Part of Work Vii Como During the .harvsst Season. The Home Garden work is by nc
 means finished yet Really the most
 important part will come next month
 den Supervisor Alfred c. Shelden fin
 his final report on the home gardens conducted the past summer in this city. His report follows:
 work has been largely of follow-ur
 nature of projects already started earlier in the spring. However, con- siderable time has been spent in work ing up and carrying out of food con- servation campaign. The detailed re-
 port follows:
 Garden Visits.
 The system of monthly garden meet ings as reported in my previous re- port were successfully continued dur ing July and August. At these meet fngs the necessity of spraying for the potato beetle, potato~blight and potato aphis were strongly emphasized in turn as well as proper thinning out and cultivation Of vegetables. At these meetings the individual difficult ties Of each gardener were taken up right at his plot, At the second round of these meetings, the record books were inspected and suggestions as to the proper keeping of them made. The percentage properly keeping these books Is not so large as hoped for as there are so many foreigners. How ever. there will be enough books prop erly kept so that it will be possible for us to determine what it costs to run a 50x100 garden and about wI5at 1t should yield. j.. At least 80 per cent of the gardeners have asked me wheth- them next year. expressing a desire to be allotted one again if possible. ~
 Between these monthly meetings the gardens were inspected about every 10 days and anything that needed at tention was noted and brought to the gardeners notice by post card
 On July 31st the Home Gardens committee with Treasurer G. H. Lor- ing. secretary, H. R. Branche present and Mrs J. J. Desmond. general man. Mrs. Haviland. representing theS wo-- mens National Service League. made. a tour of the Home Gardens accom- panied by the Home Garden supervis- or. Every section in the city was vis-. ited from Thamesville to Occum at the conclusion of the trip all expressed themselves as being quite satisfied and we'll pleased with the fine shape in which they found the gardens. .$
 The gardens are all yielding wei! and the harvesting of the crops is now progressing in fine shape. Every gar- den that was started under our super vision this spring is still producing and Will finish the season greatly to the of it's holder. In fact sew erai of the gardeners have. told me that they will take over $50 worth of product from their gardens. -5 ,,- Food Conservation Campaign.
 Ordinarily in any garden there is a large amount of produce that goes to waste and with the increased number 1f gardens and amount of garden truck tt sary that some steps be taken to con- serve this surplus. Therefore during 1 he months of July and August the yarden supervisor carried on a Food l md vicinity, along with the regular | ,ardin work.
 The town divided into section. and | with the help of School Garden Su- 1 ,ervisor G. A. Harvey, general com nittees were worked up in each sec ion to look after making the neces ary arrangements for a canning dem A hall for the demonstra- ion was secured, proper publicity andj posters put out aS1d whenever possible ome demonstration agent of the Farm Bureau were obtained to give the dem Otherwise the Home ] sarden supervisor assisted by the school Garden supervisor gave the emonstration.
 Demonstrations have been given at 'aftville Velvet Mills. OccUm hall, Vest Side Colonial club. West Side ewish society, Firemen's hall, Yantic, l nd the Laurel Hill School house. The at Taftville was given n one Of the mill rooms to 45 of the 7omen employees who showed great fin. crest. By these demonstrations it yas possible to reach many of the mailer communities and people that therwise would not have been reach d. also a large number of foreigners rere reached who knew nothing of annfnE and who showed great inter- st, asking many questions.
 Boy Scouts.
 Since my last report the Boy Scouts ave kept the worst of the weeds out [ their bean patch but have been han icapped greatly by the fact that an large percentage Of them re working this summer. Duringt ne week of August 11th, Boy Scout -oop meetings were held and sched- le of working days made out In this .ay better care Of the field was secur- d and the prospects are now good 1at they will get considerable better nan their money back when the beans re harvested.
 Velvet Mill Garden Product. |, The J. B. Martin Co.,, offered to their 1 ardeners four prizes for the most l lccessful gardens, consisting of first, }, second, 3 bushels potatoes; third. , bushels potatoes: fouSth a bushel of 1 otatoes. The determination of the 1 est gardens was left to the garden {