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...Claude Wickard gets his 18,000,000 Victory gardens, food rationing will have much less sting this summer. The Agriculture Department estimates that every city garden will produce at least $10 worth of vegetables, every farm garden at least $50. At these figures, Victory gardens should yield a $420,000,000 crop...
...Wickard's Blessing. This year Victory gardens have the Agriculture Department's blessing: Secretary Claude Wick-ard wants 12,000,000 in cities, 6,000,000 more on farms. The Department has arranged for production of a special Victory Garden Fertilizer (three parts nitrogen, eight parts phosphorus, seven parts pot-ash*) and is ready with all kinds of free advice and pamphlets. Seed companies have keyed their advertising to Agriculture's campaign. From almost any catalogue, neophyte gardeners can choose a victory garden combination ($1 and up) with full instructions how, when and where to plant...
...hard facts: 1) last fall's slaughter of cows and sows makes it nonsense to "talk of furnishing meats and fat supplies" to 300 million additional starving people after the war; 2) Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard's "admirable victory program of increased herds and production" announced a year ago was not fully met; 3) some two million men have been drained from the farm labor supply...
...Food Boss Wickard announced that $200 million would be available for easy, one-year loans to enable farmers to increase production...
...Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt issued a directive giving Claude Wickard all responsibility for recruiting and placing farm labor...