Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — MORE BACK-YARD GARDENS [ARTICLE]

MORE BACK-YARD GARDENS

“A" vegetable garden for every home” is the new slogan in Ontario, " hnd it is a slogan worth while. The proijjncial government hash launched a systematic campaign for back-yard agriculture, and it proposes to show every householder how he may, by domestic farming, combat the increasing coit of living and the growing scarcity of foodstuffs. One of the aims of the Ontario government is, of course, so to increase the available food supply at home as to enable the contributions of still more to the hardpressed motherland. But the plan must be broader inyits results, backyard gardening pays. Cleveland has tried it, these fiv’e years past, to its profit, and scores of other cities have taken up the idea. The earth is the source of wealth. The man who cultivates a plot of ground contributes to the welfare of ail mankind. The new Canadian movement owes rts 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.Cleveland Plain Dealer.