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VICTORY GARDEN CERTIFICATES The registration
of Victory gardeners by local or county Victory Garden Committees serves
several important purposes. Among these may be listed the following:
1. It affords a measure or serves as a census of Victory
gardeners, enabling the War Food Administration to evaluate the
contributions of home gardens to our national food supply. Such an
estimate is useful in determining policies concerned with food
production, manpower, supplies of seed, fertilizer, insecticides,
and other materials, and allocations of metals for manufacturing
garden tools and equipment.
2. It provides a means whereby the Victory Garden Committee and
other public agencies may reach individual families with information
and assistance.
3. It reminds the family which is participating in the Victory
Garden program that it is a worthy part of the nation's war effort.
Registration should be carried out in a
uniform manner throughout the State. Every effort should be exerted to
include therein as many home gardeners as possible. To this end,
wherever it is possible to do so, it may be expedient to conduct the
registration in connection with other organized canvasses in which every
home is surveyed.
In some communities, Boy Scouts have assisted in reaching every home by
going from door to door, to provide the opportunity for each family to
enroll with the utmost convenience.
To expedite the registration, forms such as that illustrated herewith are
provided for county and local Victory Garden Committees by the
Pennsylvania State Council of Defense. The portion on the left-hand side
of the form (outside of the decorated border) is filled in by the
Victory gardener, and is turned in to the Victory Garden Committee, to
provide statistical information on Victory gardening. The remainder,
enclosed within the decorated border, is filled out by the chairman of
the respective Victory Garden Committee and is presented to the home
gardener as a certificate of participation in the Victory Garden
Program, an important part of the national effort.
VICTORY GARDEN CERTIFICATE
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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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