It is only a matter od days until ideal weather arrives, so right now is the best time you could select to plan a garden, with a view to making it produce this year not only a full measure of outdoor exercise that all of us need so badly, but a profitable return in the shape of food supplies.
The home garden movement which swept the country during the World War seems to be dying out. In those days it seemed that every possible foot of land in cities, town and outskirts was devoted to this useful purpose. Amateur gardeners and farmers cultivated faithfully and reaped abundant reward in health and garden products for the energy. But with the passing of necessity came loss of interest in gardens.
We believe every family in Franklin should have a garden, because we believe it is a long step toward the prosperity of the entire community. You can buy the things that grow in a garden, but you can’t buy the health-giving exercise and the actual enjoyment that comes from spending an hour or so daily cultivating vegetables. And somehow or other the things you raise afford the greatest satisfaction when placed on the dining table. Let’s have more money in circulation in this community this summer than ever before. Nothing will go as far toward accomplishing that as for every family to have its own garden—and a good one.
From the editorial page of The Franklin Press, Friday, April 2, 1926. S.A. Harris, editor
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