Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1920 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE]

Home Town Helps

HOME GARDEN STILL NEEDED All Food Thus Raised Is a Distinct Gain, Helping to Overcome World's Shortage. It has been proved that organisation will effect a material increase in the supply of food products. During the war home gardening was carried.on to an extent that very, greatly relieved the shortage. Many families supplied their tables with' vegetables entirely out of their own garden plots. Every ton of food thus raised is a gain. What is needed now is organization, and this should be effected as a preliminary step. If the people will support this movement, in ■full recognition of its importance, a great acreage will be added .to the productive area of the country. The farm lands that heretofore have produced market truck will probably be devoted'to other staples, or possibly to grazing. There will be no waste land, but, on the contrary, more land under cultivation. The seriousness of this "Situation cannot be too strongly urged. Every person who is in a position to become a gardener during the coming season should do his bit for the relief of the country from the food stringency. — Washington Star.