Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1917 — BACKYARD GARDENING PAYS [ARTICLE]

BACKYARD GARDENING PAYS

Cleveland Has Tried for Ftvo Years to Its Profit, and Many Other Cities Have Taken Up the idea. “A vegetable garden for every home,** is the new slogan tn Ontario, and it Is a slogan worth while. The provincial government has launched a sys# tematic campaign for backyard agriculture, and it proposes to show everyi householder how he may, by domestic farming, combat the increasing cost of living and the growing scarcity of foodstuffs, says the Cleveland Plain Dealers One of the aims of the Ontario government is, of course, so to increase the available food supply at home a* to enable the contribution of still mors to the hard-pressed motherland. But the plan must be broader In its result* Backyard gardening pays. Cleveland has tried it, these five years past, to its profit, and scores of other cities have taken up the idea. The earth is the source of wealth. man who cultivates a plot of ground contributes to the welfare of all mankind. The new Canadian movement owes Its origin to the stress of war. It is the kind of movement which perpetuates Itself. The man, the woman or the child who once knows the delight of growing things is always the better for it, and so is his community. This country can follow with profit, the example in intensive cultivation which Ontario is to furnish.