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- <text id=93HT0278>
- <title>
- 1940s: Rusty Hoes
- </title>
- <history>Time-The Weekly Magazine-1940s Highlights</history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TIME Magazine
- June 12, 1944
- Rusty Hoes
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The national campaign to get more Victory Gardens planted
- isn't doing so well this year, reported the Gallup Poll last
- week. The goal was 22,000,000 gardens (1.6 families per garden).
- The achievement: about 17,500,00 gardens. Roughly two-and-a-half
- million more families told pollsters that they plan to plant
- that plot as soon as they can get it plowed up. But even this
- addition would still make the total 2,000,000 short of the goal,
- and 500,000 less than the number of gardens actually planted
- during 1943. The lag was chiefly in New England and Mid-Atlantic
- States. But there was one hopeful note. Surveys showed that many
- of this year's gardens are larger.
- </p>
- <p> The people's alibis:
- </p>
- <p>-- Last year's garden produce was not worth the time and hard
- work.
- </p>
- <p>-- Lack of space for gardens this year.
- </p>
- <p>-- Too busy with regular work.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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