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<text id=93HT0278>
<title>
1940s: Rusty Hoes
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<history>Time-The Weekly Magazine-1940s Highlights</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
TIME Magazine
June 12, 1944
Rusty Hoes
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<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>
</body>
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