Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-03-21
Gardens Again.

a garden, even very tiny gar
den, should begin planning for
it now, or planting it according
to location. The whole world is
learning to SOW its seed so that
it shall bring forth an hundred
fold. The French people are
very thrifty, and good farmers,
yet they themselves admit that
they never succeeded in wiring
ing from the soil such crops as
they have been compelled to
harvest for the benefit of their
conquerors.
1t is difficult for us to realize
in this country that Belgium is
no longer the triangle of our
school days, but a mere ribbon
of land, a little more than twen-
ty miles long, and about six
miles wide. Here lives the king
and queen and what is left of
the court and government. But
the Belq;um Of geography is be-
ing titled by its unwilling peo-
pie for the sake of the hater
Germans. Hundreds Of miles of
Northeastern France are held
by the Huns, and there the hap
less French people are giving
forced labor more strenuous
than any that made their great
great grand parents rebel
against the ruling class of
France. Yet these unwilling
workers look up from their own
fields, that are theirs no more,
and realize that these acres new
er before produced such bounti-
full crops, even when titled glad
ly, by those who loved each
fruitful vine and blossoming
tree. 1t is terrible thing for
these people to be driven from
their homes, of which in many
instances no trace remains, but
that is not more bitter than to
SOW and reap for the enemy
from the fields that are under
his iron grasp.
The hardships these people
endure. the difficulties under
which they work ought to be an
inspiration to everyone who has
a few feet Of ground that are
his very own. Even in the
parts of France that has been
retaken. the farmer finds him.
self confronted with all sorts OF
difficulties. In some fields there
are so many unexploded shells
=, that cultivation is a very peri
lous business. Others have beer
sown with saltpetre by the Ger
? mans, and in other vicinitieS
+ where the foe had time for in
4 genious barbarity. they took
2 some essential part from every
= plow in the district, so that al
= Of them should be worthless.
= Every farmer and farmeres'
= whether they count their hold
e ings by the hundreds of acres
), or by the limitations of a bacl
e yard in city, and rented bacl
e yard at that, should impress
= this important fact upon hi
e mind: the farm gardens of th'
e. United States had raised frui
= and vegetables worth S375,Q00.
a 600 by the first of last Septem
e Der. The tomatoes and bean!
h and potatoes came along aftet
/ that. and enriched many eel
d lar that would have been as bar
# as Mother Hubbard's cupboar'
5 but for the carefully tende'
d patches of garden. The trucl
d gardener didn't lose anything
: All that he could raise foun
W ready sale. All he can rails
l. this year will be contracted fO
L almost as soon as the seed i
IL sown. This country must Civ
IS more than it has ever giver
k and every family that plans t
< support itself in so far as pos
N sible will be doing great wa
service.
1t is necessary that civilian
should endure some privatiOr
;, in order that we may have foo
for our allies and for our ow
i'll soldiers, but it is of the utmoS
10 Importance that the civilia
e. population should realize thu
If "Uncle Sam" expects it to TAX
re care of itself also. Gardens Wi
e. do as much if not more tina
/; anything else to keep the so
p dier abroad and the citizen ;
IN home we'll fed. Every boy an
all girl ought to plant garden an
s. make it a source OF pride an
profit.
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