Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-10
FIFTY APPLICATIONS
 FOR HOME GARDENS
Thirty Acres of Land Pledged for the
 Coming Season.

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 Fifty applications for gardens are on file at the home garden headquarters, according to a statepQent issued by the local home garden bureau Tuesday afternoon. Land totalng 30 acres or more has been pledged, this being about the same amount of land under cultivation last year, and teams have been engaged to blow for the next 90 days.
 The statement issued follows:
 The committee of food supply of the State Council of Defense, through it's Home Garden Department, is urging every community in the state to take up and carry on, as a part of n1unici- pal or town work, the development of home gardens.
 In order that the local supervisor of home gardens may. with some degree of accuracy, learn of the number Of families who are desirous of obtain- ing land for garden purposes, we urge upon all such that they at once com municate with this department in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce and have their names properly listed. This win furnish the supervisor the necessary amount of land required in Norwich for home gardens, season of 1913 Without the earnest co-opera-
  Norwich it will be impossible to double the Qumber of gardens cared for last year This is being urged by Press ident Wilson, Governor Holcofnb and the State Council of Defense.ssts-- Z There were last year in the town of Norwich, nine hundred home gars dens under the direct supervision of l this department Three hundred of these were on land. pledged by private individuals, free of charge, save for l the preparation work and fertilizer. 1 the other six hundred gardens were cared for and pledged by the rnaru- featuring industries of the town and l were under the direct supervision of | the home garden supervisor. The amount of food produced on these l garden plots varies from $25 to $t00, ] in several instances produce to the l value of the latter amount being talk ] en from plots averaging in size 50Xf00 feet. A fair average of $50 rt garden l plot, we believe, would be within req 1 son, and it will be readily seen that by multiplying this amount by 900 l Ct1le number of gardens, under cllti- l vatien) the startling sum of s45,006 l was saved to the citizens of Norwich 1 by their energy and thrift in caring for 1 small garden plots.
 1 A pretty good investment, we feel. l is the investment Of S1,00Q, the cost l of maintenance of the home garden
 movement in Norwich last year. .No1-- wich has been commended upon it's activity along this The by the State Council of Defense and by the state college
 l We have at the present time fifty
 applications for gardens, and that be- l fore there had been scarcely any l Dloughing done. We have engaged
 feasls already to plough for the next thirty days and have already pledged i plots of land totalling thirty acres oI more. This is about the same amount If land under cultivation as last year i In order to properly serve and care
 for districts where demands are be- ing made for garden plots. the commit tee wishes to report that there has 1 not as yet been any land pledged or the East or West Side of the ctiy neither has there been any pledges from Laurel Hill Norwich Town ani l Thamesville have pledged some ter
 acres each.
 1 It has been stated by those in au
 thofitY that one q the prime reasons I for the daylicat saving movement wa: that 1t would allow every family who
 could to be furnished a garden plot tt plant and care for the same the pres
 ent season.
 | Tie home garden department of tht l Norwich War Bureau includes in it membership men who have worked
 sout and carried through successful. the planting of home gardens. We al
 so have the expert advice furnished
 by the Connecticut Agricultural col lege, together with their system 0 } keeping accounts of the same and iron time to time circulars having to d
 with all that pertains to the move
 ment We also have the local Farr } Bureau, located. ir the Thayer build ] ing. to call upon at anytime for ex pert advice. We have secured a su
 pervisor vino is giving his entire tim ? l to the organization work and later t ! 1 supervise the same. He is in posi- tion to offer technical advice on a, |. gardening problems.
 We cannot too strongly urge ono more the great necessity of every fam 1 fly In Norwich applying at once t l this department for a plot of land. Tn only charge made for garden plots 2 the actual expense of ploughing tn I same for planting. To care for n garden is 8 patriotic duty, every b as essential as purchasing Libert
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