The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31
DEVELOP CAMP GARDENS


 ''In addition to that we developed what are known as camp gardens, cultivated in the camps in which we utilized the German prisoners, interned enemy aliens and men unfit for service in the army. Men who had returned from the front, during conyalescence, were put to work in the gardens, and the whole some exercise and outdoor work restored threm to good physical condition.
 As our man power was drawn upon we couldn't get all first-class men. We had to take men from all walks of life. men who were physically unfit. weak, men from the slums whose mode of life and lack of proper food and living con ditions made them unfit for active war service After period of work in these gardens, good food. regular hours and n healthy way of living, their physique was developed and they became strong, produced large quantities of food in the camps cn land that otherwise would have been idle, and built the weak and unfit into strong, healthy men. From this small beginning we have extended the worK until this year we have 25,0O9 acres under cultivation in what are known as war gardens.
 Having developed this system of food production, we then turned to waste sal
 
 small rendering plants in which we ex- tracted fats and greases from waste scraps of meats and cooked the gar bage. After the fats had been extracted the bones were used for manufacturing glue and finally converted into fertilizer. GLYCERINE IS EXTRACTED
 The fats were dispatched to soap man. ufacturers, who were under obligation to extract the glycerine and hand it over to the manufacturers of munitions to be used in making high explosives. We found that by this system we could re- cover sufficient glycerine from the waste of 1000 soldiers to make 25 lS-pound shells a day. From camp of 40,00o men, the average number in your cantonments over here I am informed, enough glycer- inc could be obtained from the food was tage to make. 1Oo0 lS-pound shells daily. Tn this country the whole of.that Was tage Is destroyed. The garbage is ! burned, and this necessitates the use or ! both fuel and labor.
 After the fats have been extracted we convert the residue of the garbage into Iry food, reducing the bulk by from 50 to 70 per cent, by eliminating the moisture, and ship it to swine growers, this being found to be excellent food for hogs
 owing to the fact that a large num- Der of the men in England have been called pp, thereby taking them away from ciVii occupations we had great difficulty in obtaining cloth, cotton goods and leather, and the quality obtainable was not as good as in pre-war days. We therefore started retaining, repair ing, cleaning and disinfecting and reis- auing any clothing, boots. or other ar ticles that could be repaired. The whole of the work at home and much of 1t in France is carried on by men really unfi. for trench service.
 ALL GONE TO SALVAGE CORPS
 All materials of every description from the biggest gun to the smallest ar ticle of clothing, or equipment is col lected, sent back to the salvage corps at the base, repaired, if possible That which is not reparable in wool, cotton and shell cases. steel. iron and in fact, everything is sent back either to de- pot in France or England for remanu- facture. Millions and millions of pounus saNaJ nv this met thOd and mt cnIy