The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-04-03
HOME GARDENERS
ON THEIR MARKS
Ready For Start Of Great Home
Food Production Drive
Cities Report Widespread
Interest In Campaign.
~ Associated Press.

Washington. April with the
extra our OF daylight beginning
throughout the country yesterday and
continuing for 2l0 days. the horne gar-
deners are all set for the start OF the
greatest home foo production drive
n country ever saw according to re-
ports to the National War Garden Com
mission. Since January the get ready
drive has been on Inc 1t is expected
next Sunday will see millions OF gar
deners In the home trenches.
The suggestion made by Charles
Lathrop Pack, president Of the COM
mission. that April 6. the anniversary
OF Americas declaration Of wal on
Germany be fixed each year as the late
for opening the home food production
campaign Is reported to have been talk
en- UP all W t~he4country.
Reports to the commission show the
garden campaign is on a larger scale
than ever n in hundreds OF places II
community center work with the
slogan Victory Gardens" Some OF
these reports follow:
Reports from Cities.
Minneapolis-Three thousand lots
gardened last a. are reserved for
members OF the Garden Gu this year
and efforts are being mad to obtain
permission from owner to use much
other vacant property.
Chicago-Dudley Grant Hays, direc-
tor of extension work In public schools.
believes the count will show 100, 900
home gardens. The immigration de-
partment of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association is planting $50 acres
OF industrial gardens for the foreign
born to help in the AUGMENTATION
work.
Savannah. Ga--Mayor Stewart
nounces the city will do blowing free
for all Victory gardeners.
Sunday School Gardens.
Cleveland, Ohio-Victory gardens
will be made the base of a big com
munity development plan here. sun
day School Gardens will be planted
by classes in man parts of the city.
Detroit-The park department is con-
Quoting a course in practical garden
ing in the schools. Moving picture
theaters and street car advertising are
being used to promote the campaign.
Norman, Okla. w. Bridges, as
sistant regional director of the United
States school garden army for Okla
homa. Kansas and Colorado, reports
there will be 400, 900 Victory gardeners
in Oklahoma alone this year.
Toledo, Ohio-City will give prizes
for best gardens and products and has
appropriated $4,000 for blowing and
other work in campaign. 1t is expect
ed that more than $500, 900 worth of
products will be grown by city farm
ers.
Memphis. Tenn.-victory gardeners
are wearing little buttons bearing a
spade and words: Feed Memphis"
Garden Exhibition.
Norfolk, VA big garden exhibit
tion with many prizes is planned for
fall.
Atlanta, Ga.-A demonstration gar
den in the city square under way and
campaign is backed by women's clubs.
New Observation-Disclosures of women's
clubs have organized to make New
Orleans the Garden City OF the United
States"
"The garden has come to stay" said
Mr.. Pack, for 1t is now a mighty eco
nomic factor. BUSINESS concerns have
taken up the work as never before
and see it as one of the greatest bar
riers against unrest that the country
has. All reports show gardening as a
permanent project and the central
point around which all community
work will be planned"