Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1911 — PROPOSE GARDENS FOR POOR [ARTICLE]

PROPOSE GARDENS FOR POOR

City of Buffalo Planning to Rent Ground for Municipal Farming— Lpan Tracts to Worthy. Buffalo, N. Y. —“That it would be- a good business move for the city to lease, for stated periods, tracts of available land, and turn the same over to the worthy poor for municipal gardening purposes,” was an idea advanced by Louis J. Kenngott, city overseer of the poor. “Heretofore," said he, "the municipal gardening done here has been on plots of ground, the use of which has been donated by the owners* “T-iese plots have been loaned, with the understanding that possession of the same was to revert to their owners in case the lands should be sold. So the poor, who planted crops on these plots, were always facing the possibility of losing the results of their labor by having their plots, when under cultivation, taken from them through a change of ownership. Of coarse, such deprivation would not happen often.”