“GROW FOR VICTORY”
BRITAIN PRODUCES SIXTY PER CENT.
“Britain now claims nearly 60 per cent, self-sufficiency in food. Four million additional acres of food-bear-ing land, tilled in the ‘Grow for Victory’ drive, have contributed to this, 2,000,000 acres will be ploughed for greater crops next spring. Fifteen million ‘backyard hens,’ raised and fed by private citizens, as well as 3300 extra tons of ‘backyard hogs,’ have been added to the stock of foods
Three million gardeners have converted flower beds into vegetable plots; over 500,000 war-time allotments to
private citizens have further turned the Engli’h countryside to repel abD growing."—New York “Tin'.ci.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4533, 6 February 1942, Page 3
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