The working of the scheme is worth imitation by any
and every municipality. Plots and seeds are obtained from the Labour Exchange and a spade lent to each allottee. In most cases 300 square yards are rented at 2d. a week, and the men are the tenants of the corporation. As many as 1,800 holders drew their packets of seeds (peas, beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflowers and other vegetables), and their packets of fertilizers during seven consecutive evenings in last March, when the garden year opened. Allot- ment societies have been formed at each centre. Sheffield, of course, is only one example of a general movement, initiated by the Society of Friends, and gradually extended by a Central Committee formed by the Ministry of Agriculture. In all last year 64,000 unemployed grew their own food. If this army is reduced, if it is not increased, the loss will be great, socially and economically. The head of the National Movement is the National Allotments Society, 40 Broadway, Westminster, S.W. 1.
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