The spade is as valuable as the rifle

The Rockland County Patriotic Society on their way to charge a ten-acre plot and convert it into a vegetable garden. They believe the spade is as valuable as the rifle.

How the stay-at-homes can provide the sinews of war for America and our European Allies

Popular Science Magazine 1917

America turns to the soil in earnest. Even women are responding to the call for active service. Mrs. Ruth Litt, the wealthy suffragist, has turned over her 135-acre farm for cultivation, the work to be done entirely by women.

The photograph shows Mrs. Litt, Mrs. Grace Homer, Mrs. George Baxter. Jr., and Mrs. Charles Gould at work.

Three hundred acres of land in East Potomac Park, Washington, were given over entirely to the Boys Scouts Brigade by the Government to be cultivated as a vegetable garden.

The pages from Popular Science Magazine 1917