Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — Indiana Doing Fine Work In Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Doing Fine Work In Gardens.

One out of every ten persons in * Indiana is cultivating a food garden, according to statistics gathered by the National Emergency Food Garden Commission. Preliminary reports on gardening in the Hoosier state from the commission’s field agents and various other sources show that the increase in gardens is 160 per cent as compared with last year’s figures. It is conservatively estimated that at least 200,000 food gardens have been planted in Indiana. “The excellent results obtained in Indiana,’’ declared Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the commission, “greatly exceeded expectations. The people of Indiana are to be congratulated for the unanimous manner in which they arose to help the government in the task of growing more food.” ' Mrs. Everett Potts went to Lafayette today. _ \ L