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ORGANIZATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR 1942
"It is desired that each County Council of Defense should
immediately organize a Victory Garden Committee. The chairman should be
an active, experienced gardener with executive ability. The members of
this committee should be chosen from persons who understand the problems
of growing, utilizing, and preserving garden products.
"This County Victory Garden Committee should meet with the County Farm
Agent before making any plans whatsoever for the promotion of the
Victory Garden Program.
"The County Farm Agent will be in receipt of information from the
extension service of The Pennsylvania State College as to the garden
products to be raised and as to all the technical details of planning
and raising Victory Gardens.
"It is essential that the Victory Garden Program in each county be based
squarely upon the specialized and expert knowledge of the County Farm
Agent. Seeds and fertilizer are scarce, and without expert guidance,
Victory Gardens will waste more good seed and good fertilizer than the
products will be worth to the Nation.
"The County Victory Garden Committee should include certain members as
follows:
County Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture
County Supervisor of Vocational Home Economics
A representative of the organized garden groups or horticulture
associations
A representative of the County Advisory Agricultural Defense Council
A representative of trade organizations which handle seeds, fertilizer,
and insecticides
A representative of County War Board, U.S.D.A.
A representative of Consumer Committee of County Councils of Defense,
and others
"After the initial meeting of the County Victory Garden Committee, each
local Council of Defense should be requested to appoint its Victory
Garden Committee composed of the same representative persons as are
appointed to the County Victory Garden Committee.
"Kindly report at your earliest convenience, the name of the chairman of
your Victory Garden Committee.
"Further information on this subject will be sent you soon."
In 1943, the second season of Victory Gardens, the functions and the
organization of county and local Victory Garden Committees were
enlarged, and sub-committees on Food Preservation were set up. A part of
the order which directed that these sub-committees be set up is quoted
below, to explain their constitution and functions. |
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Victory Gardens
Handbook of the
Victory Garden Committee
War Services, Pennsylvania
State Council of Defense
April, 1944
TABLE OF CONTENTS
page v
page vi
page vii
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