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[[note]] [circa 1918] [[/note]]

American Art Association
4. RUE JOSEPH-BARA
Paris (VIe)

Aim of the Work.

The utilization of vacant lands around Hospitals and Base Depots - by the employment of the labor of convalescent patients, and others - for the raising of potatoes for the American Army or Red Cross.

The extent of unused lands around Hospital & Depots are usually quite large, and vacant lands in the vicinity could be leased where it was found possible to use them.

Light occupation for convalescent patients before being sent back to active service - especially for those who cannot like the French & English be sent to their homes for convalescence - would be found most helpful. especially in their morale.

The amount of manure that would be available from the Transport Divisions would be large and greatly increase the yield.

What is hoped to be accomplished is the raising of thousands of bushels of potatoes Certainly quantity up to a very large total, is only limited by the more or less perfect organization of each section. All plots of land in a vicinity would be organized into a section, under individual management, and the number of such sections could be very large.

Would it be of any real help. Yes! 

For while the potatoe does not hold with us the same all important place it does in Germany, it is a very necessary article and would have to be either brought from America - thus decreasing our already too small tonnage, or bought from the constantly decreasing French production.

It is too early to make an estimate of how much might really be raised, but with energy & ability, the total would certainly be large, and worth the effort.