Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — Successful Community Garden. [ARTICLE]

Successful Community Garden.

To relate the experience of a small borough in northern New Jersey last year may encourage others to go and do likewise. The Inhabitants subscribed to a guarantee fund to finance a community garden. The local clergyman was put. in charge of the enterprise. A half day’s plowing was donated, but all other labor was paid for, being done largely by the local boys’ club. Two sacks of potatoes were planted. The crop was largely sold to people who bought them by the bushel in the ground, doing their own digging. The net result was about forty bushels, and the profit, $5.81, was donated to the Y. 11. C. A. war fund. The members of the committee donated their time and the assets were a few hoes. The guarantee fund was never called upon. If every borough or town in the country could do as well the potato crop next year would be Increased a million bushels.