ARMY TO PRODUCE VEGETABLES
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, February 13. A scheme has been launched under which soldiers of the Scottish Command will grow vegetables on all arable land under the command’s control. “The Army will grow food on its land as any other occupier would,” said the officer in charge of the scheme, “always with the proviso that the Army must be allowed to train.” The Treasury has made a grant for tools and seeds, and hundreds of gardeners, or 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 tlie larger areas, although a great deal of work will be on the allotment system. The main crop will be potatoes.
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Southland Times, Issue 24362, 17 February 1941, Page 3
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