SOLDIER VEGETABLE RAISERS
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, February 13,
A scheme has been launched under which soldiers of the Scottish Command will grow vegetables on all the arable land under its control. "The Army will grow food on its land just as any other occupier," said the officer in charge of the scheme. The Treasury has made a grant for tools and seeds, and hundreds, of gardeners and farmers now serving in the Army will be employed wholly on the new scheme as advisers and instructors. Tractors will be hired to plough up larger areas, though a great deal of the work will be on the allotment system. The main crop will be potatoes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 12
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