Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1920 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

ALL SHOULD HAVE A GARDEN

Health and Profit In the Cultivation of the Ground, Even Though 'Plot Small. The “city farmer,” as they humorously called him, was a very great help, not only to himself, but to the country, during the war-garden time, and the experience he gained from his war-garden activities then has since helped him In the fight to win out against the high cost of living. He has profited by that experience in every beneficial way, and the best of all is that he fell in love with his garden, and has been In love with ii ever since. He found health there, and more of home happiness; and the profit was then, as It will be now, that he didn’t have to take the market basket from home. To the town dweller, who perhapt 'hasn’t given much attention to gardening, the Albany (Ga.) Herald says: “It’s great to have a garden, even though it produce few vegetables. It’s great to have a place for outdoor exercise—a place in which to turn up the fragrant earth wlti\ a spading fork, level it with a rake and lay it off with a trench hoe. Some folk say it’s better exercise than golf or tennis, though on that question we do not presume to sit in judgment. A man can work in his garden before sunrise, when golf links are too wet with the dew to be used, and his garden is a whole lot nearer home than the golf club. “And there is no reason why Mr. Towndweller cannot have a garden with real vegetables in it if he will give a little practical thought and diligent application to its preparation and care.” —Atlanta Constitution.