Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
TO PLOW WAR
GARDENS TOMORROW
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Watts will pilot one of these over a
Bellevue war garden.
You want to take a good look
when General Watts unleashes this
1lotilla of Cleveland caterpillars
And watch your step, too. for they
speed along at eight miles an hour
shoot over bitches, coal piles, brick
yards and wade the Susquehanna. He
can turn em on ten-cent piece and
in fine. they are so human as to do
everything but laugh.
The idea is to give Harrisburg an
other record for duty and loyalty to
Uncle Sam. War gardening last year
was hampered in many ways. But
the Chamber of Commerce is sure go
ing over the top this spring. All
thanks are due to the Cleveland
Tractor Company, the Emerson
Brantingham Company and the In
ternatlonal Harvester folks. They
have given freely to grow in Har-
rlsburg the finest war gardens that
ever bloomed. and just at the psy-
Geological moment, for here is COM
ing that extra hour in the afternoon
when the amateur farmer can get
away from business and dive into the
garden.
Daylight Saving to Aid
This extra hour means thirty per
cent. more product" estimates Cen
e:al Watts. Harrisburg from to 6
every afternoon ought to be one huge
farm. Last year the Chamber of
Commerce plowed $40 lots and / had
in my charge 500 for the school chill
dren. From the first the total value
in produce was $500 and from the
school lots $4,000. There were in all
tv enty-seven acres cultivated, and
this year we have forty for the Cham
Der of Commerce patrons. while the
school lots will be somewhat in
creased. I would like to have it an
nounced right now that if any one in
Harrisburg has some ground that he
will give for this patriotic purpose,
the Chamber of. Commerce will be
mighty CAD to hear from him. Let
him communicate Immediately with
their office"
System is the catchword for this
years war garden activity. There
will be no hitch in any feature. Now
that the caterpillar artillery has ar
rived, the plowing will be started inn
mediately, and so swift are these up
to-date clodbusters that the job will
be finished in week.
When and How to Plant
Next comes the planting. and for
SeeuS the INDIVIDUAL must depend
on himself. The Chamber of Com
1uerce has about fifty bushels of seed
potatoes to sell at cost, but that is
all. General Watts. however, has
compounded a pamphlet, concise and
perfect, which tells one what. when
and how to plant, free for all. He
will follow this with instructions for
the assassinating of every kind of
pest except a live Hun. AS it ap-
pears from tests made recently, the
coal oil emulsion is a sure killer of
the potato 1ouse. which was so dis
astrous last season. Bordeau mixture
is another demon for the germ and
orawIer; moreover. it is nutritious
for the plant
The better to keep every one in
formed right up to date. six COM
misSioners will be on the job all the
time to give personal advice and sug-
gestions at the three big plants.
Bellevue, Nineteenth and Paxtang and
Reel and Division streets. To-day
fifty applications came in for plots
and you should hurry with yours If
you want to be one of the farmer
patriots of Harrisburg