From the Asheville Citizen, April 26, 1943
Hens Vs. Gardens; Pot Wins
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh—Victory gardens have been asking
the extension service at N.C. State College for all kinds of information about
vegetable growing, including that on bugs, blisters, and blights which attack
their crops, but Editor F.H. Jeter was “stumped” today when he received a
request on how how to fight—the neighbor’s chickens. There is no publication
available on this subject.
The woman explained that her husband and children were
anxious for a fine “victory garden” this year as she was, but that past
experience showed that their gardening efforts would be in vain unless they
could get some help. The minute they started planting, the chickens came over
to help with the digging.
She said that she had called the attention of her neighbors
to the fact that it is against the law for chickens to run at large and in the
adjoining garden, but for some reason her neighbors did not seem to understand.
So in a letter to the extension service, she asks just how
far she should go in explaining the law to the chickens, since she had failed
so utterly with her neighbors. She said that she felt sure that if the chickens
could only understand the law and the serious need for more fresh vegetables,
they would remain on their own premises.
Jeter sent her directions for cookery, including the various
methods preparing chickens for the table.
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