The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-07-08


raising chickens instead of cabbages, |
and they have the encouragement of
a University of California professor
who says:
For most families, | think chick
ems are more practical than vegeta-
bles."
At Little Rock, Ark, apartment
house dwellers have rented plots on
the outskirts of the city and many
Milwaukee business and professional
men have purchased farms within
twenty-five miles Of the city, and are
working them after business hours or
on week-ends. One Of these gentle
men farmers has shown old-time
farmers that city slickers are not so
, dusty-hc exchanges pasturage with
nearby farmers in return for the use
of farm tools.
Swanky Newport, R. l., where mil
honaircs' yachts proudly ply in peace
time, is virtually large-scale hothed
and officials are predicting 10000
gardens for population of 10000
persons.
Movement Gets Stronger
/ In Massachusetts, would-be farm
ars are rallying to the garden call
even as did their forefathers to the
battle cry of Lexington and Concord
and the objective there is 100000
victory gardens this year where 300
600 fourished last year.
Gardeners Of the State Hospital
for the Insane at Augusta, Maine,
will supervise community projects,
and in Vermont Commissioner Of Ag-
riculture Edward H. Jones says an
expected $4,000 victory plots should
be a real contribution, for essentially
Vermont is a dairy State, and a good
part of the regular farming must be
devoted to raising feed for cattle"
New Hampshire's State Home Food
Production Committee, besides spur
ring the planting Of gardens, is con-
| sidering plans for creating cannery
and preserving centers throughout the
State during the late summer and fall,
so that all food not eaten at once can
be preserved
Predict 100000 Gardens
California observers are predicting
more than million gardens for the
! Far West, and one reports:
"Where begonas once bloomed and
! lawns spread from sun porch to tea
bower, onions and cabbages now stand
in rows-soldierlik the
peace-loving folk of far-away war
/ coming home"
Screen actors are growing vegeta-
bles in ritzy Beverly Hills where even
beautiful front lawns have given away
to truck gardens (The Chamber Of
| Commerce has suggested, however,
that beauty could be combined with
utility by placing beds of marigolds as
; borders for the gardens.)
Some Californians are even plant
| ing their gardens "by the moon," on
the theory that crops planted in fav-
orable lunar periods have a better
yield than those started at other
times.
Many Plant "By Moon"
Many of them apparently took to
heart a recent report by DR.. Knight
Dunlap, psychologist at the Univer-
| sity of California at Los Angeles, that
, the blooming Of a certain patch of
! South African iris conceded with lu
mar changes-a although the scientist
did not say whether the man in the
moon had anything to do with the
iris or whether it was mere COIN
cidence.
The moon-phase planters found fur
Their encouragement in the word from
Mostafa Elgabaly Egyptian-born ag
ricultural researcher on the Berkeley
campus Of U. c. L. A., that in the
Nile Valley a higher PERCENTAGE of
cotton hollis open during the full moon
than in any other lunar periods.
Anyway, the whole matter is being
put TO scientific test on one corner Of
the campus. Barley has been planted,
but the experiment. isn't far enough
along yet to determine whether it's
been moon-struck.
| Soldiers Feed Hogs
At Tyndall Field, Florida, soldiers
are feeding one hundred hogs to help