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WESTINGHOUSE VICTORY GARDENS
The company gardens at the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company are illustrative of what can be done when an
industrial concern makes land and educational assistance for Victory
Gardeners available to employees. In this instance, B. P. Hess, a
Westinghouse employee, was made supervisor of Westinghouse Educational
Center Victory Gardens. Mr. Hess obtained his knowledge of gardening
both from training and experience. Raised on a farm, he has obtained
academic degrees both in agriculture and electrical engineering from
Ohio State University.
For its outstanding contribution to the Victory Garden program in 1943,
the Educational Center of Westinghouse was awarded an honorary plaque by
the National Victory Garden Institute.
The Westinghouse Educational Center sponsored 192 Victory Garden plots
covering 13 acres for employees of the East Pittsburgh Works. The plots
were at two locations east of Pittsburgh, on Ardmore Boulevard and on
the Greensburg Pike.
A planned program of mailed suggestions for the planting, cultivation,
harvesting and preservation of crops was conducted by B. P. Hess,
supervisor of the project. The season's activity was capped by a display
of canned and dried foods raised by the war worker growers. Top prize
for a special variety display was awarded to John W. Yex, of 7321 Kelly
Street, Pittsburgh. He was one of 25 exhibitors, who made entries in 34
prize winning classes.
Plans have already been started for an expanded Victory Garden activity
for Westinghouse workers in 1944. "Our gardeners cultivated 27,472 feet
of corn, 68,100 feet of beans, and 10,200 tomato plants, in addition to
growing many other crops this year," said W. V. Foust, chairman of the
Center's gardening committee. He added:
"Next year we'll do even better. The war demands for food are increasing
and vegetables offered for sale will probably be a lot scarcer next
summer. Accordingly, a goal of at least 300 garden plots has been set."
Judges for the award of the National Victory Garden Institute plaque were
Richardson Wright, editor of House & Garden magazine; J. W. Johnston,
horticultural editor of the New York Herald-Tribune; and Carl F. Wedell,
head of the School of Horticulture, State Institute of Agriculture,
Farmingdale, New York.
The Institute is part of the Garden Clubs of America.
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Victory Gardens
Handbook of the
Victory Garden Committee
War Services, Pennsylvania
State Council of Defense
April, 1944
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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