South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-21
ELECT OFFICERS
FOR GARDEN WORK
War Garden Commission Com
pIeteS Reorganization and
Names Superintendent.

4 meeting NJ Che garden commits
sion was held ia the office or the
municipal recreation director Wei
uesday afternoon for the purpose
OF completing The organization n
the plans for the spring work. and
also for the election of officers g..
g. Page. who is also chairman I'll
the agricultural committee of the
Chamber OF Commerce. was elected
president Of the commission. ami
presided q the meeting T. ". Ri
finger was elected vice president.
Mr. Eittinger is AT the head Of the
vocational department az the high
school ana conducts the agricultur-
al classes there. Mrs H. =. FICkeu-
seer was elected secretary and
treasurer and r.. r.. Wolfe as head
Of me municipal recreation commit
tee automatically became director
and supervisor OF the garden work
throughout the city.
Bruno Nehrling who for the past
three years has been president or
the garden commission. submitted
"a plan for the gardens OF this year
The plan was discussed by those
present and 10 is possible that II
viii oe adopted 10 be used as sug-
gestiOn 10 prospective gardeners Of
the year The commission plans to
circulate throughout the city about
20. geo booklets. with every bit OF in
formation possible concerning the
making Of the gardens and the care
OF them after they are started.
Plans For Model Garden.
AIR Nehrlings plan was drawn
with a 90 foot frontage and a 40 foot
depth. suggesting that il be divided
into u rows, the first row 20 be
planted IN parsnips, satisfy and car
rOts. each in % foot lengths; the
second row. IN early peas and late
cabbage in equal paintings the for
mer TO be repeated as often as pos
sible: the third row i'm early cab
bage. radishes and bush beans: the
fourth row. caulidour lettuce and
turnips the NTH row. early peas.
repeated as often as possible, the
sixth row. beets and turnips. the
seventh row. bush beans repeated
as often as possible. the eighth row.
onions and early radishes, the ninth
row. in onion sets, then two rows
OF late cabbage and then two rows
OF early corn planted about 40 feet
of the length of the row I'm the
two rows and using the remainder
of the space for summer squash
then two rows OF late corn. using
the same arrangement as liza the two
preceding rows and finishing out the
beans. and the last two rows in to-
matoes
The plan Of Mr.. Nehrlings was
given much discussion and whether
il Will he accepted entirely as sub
United VIII Zoe decided at the next
meeting.
Plant sugar Bects.
Miss Leila g. oslo municipal
home economies demonstration. sug-
gested that some space be given to
the planting Of sugar beets. as a
means OF relieving the shortage of
sugar This was discussed and Il
is POSSIBLE that some of the things
ON the plan OF Mr. NehrIing may be
omitted or the plan may be worked
out so that the sugar beets may he
worked into the original plan by re-
ducinE the quantity of tine other
veEeta bles
The commission will meet again
in the office Of the municipal recrs-
alton director i'm the Jefferson school
building on Wednesday of next week
al 4.50 o'clock for the purpose IF
furtherins the plans for the garden
work.