SOME ACHIEVEMENTS IN FOOD 



BY NORMAN C. McLOUD 



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I'ACKW'ARD look at the j^Tovving season of 1917 age has been foiled and famine has been foreed to snr 

 cannot fail to make one jn-oud that he is an Anier- render. 



The close of the season is a time for stock taking in 

 connection with the food situation. W'e have had pro- 

 duction i)ast all previous records and beyond all expecta- 

 tion, .\ nation-wide survev undertaken bv the National 



^Ig. ican. Throughout the nation the call to the flag 

 of food [iroduction and food conservation met 

 with response genuine and swift. The whole country or- 

 ganized itself into an army of soldiers of the soil and 



"THE BIGGEST WAR GARDEN IN THE WEST." 



One of the most impressive results of the campaign conducted by the National Emergency Food Garden Commission was the war garden at 

 Inspiration, Arizona. This garden was 3,300 feet above sea level, in the heart of the copper mining district. It covered an area of 217 acres 

 and the double crop system was used to increase the fruitfulness of the land. The needs of the commiuiity were considered in planting and 85 

 per cent of the ground was used for raising Mexican pink beans and sweet corn. Nothing was allowed to go to waste and the Commission's 

 manuals were freely used in encouraging canning and drying activities. 



warriors against waste. In 

 the creation of this army 

 no draft was required. 

 Confronted with threatened 

 national food shortage 

 the people of the United 

 States acted with singular 

 spontaneity. Enlistments 

 were voluntary and enthu- 

 siastic. Service was ener- 

 getic and constant. During 

 the early months the sym- 

 bols of service were the 

 rake and the hoe. With 

 the maturity of the crops 

 these were supplanted by 

 the canner and drier as 

 tokens of the patriotic 

 gift of the people to Amer- 

 ica at war. Through the 

 combined attacks of the 

 allied forces of producers 

 and iireservers food short- 



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EPIGRAMS ON HOME GARDENING AND j 

 FOOD THRIFT 



From Literature of the National Emergency Food Garden Com- 

 mission—Season of 1917. 



Provide a Food Supply F. O. B. the Kitchen Door. 



Winter Food Supply F. O. B. the Pantry Shelf. 



Soldiers of the Soil; Warriors Against Waste. 



Every Soldier of the Soil Should Promote Himself to a 

 Colonel of Conservation. 



In Its Power Against the Enemy the Can Is as Certain 

 as the Cannon; the Drier as Dauntless as the Dread- 

 naught. 



Can All Food That Can Be Canned. 



The Nation Is Fired With the Spirit of a New Freedom. 

 Food Waste Is the Enemy, Food Thrift the Battle- 

 cry and Food Conservation the Weapon. 



War's Emergency Has Brought With It a Sense of War's 

 Responsibility. 



In Wartime a Nation With a Food Shortage Is a Nation 

 in Peril. 



It Is Time to Begin Starving the American Garbage Pail. 

 Otherwise We Will Begin Starving Our Allies in 

 Europe. 



Instead of Empty Tomato Cans the Backyard Now Has 

 Its Crop of Tomatoes. For Unnumbered Tins We 

 Have Substituted Foodstuffs in Unmeasured Tons. 



Make Food Thrift Your Wartime Gift. 



Emergency Food Garden 

 Commission has located 

 over three million home 

 gardens, most of which 

 were cultivated where no 

 jilanting had been done be- 

 fore. On this vast area 

 has been raised a food croj) 

 valued at $350,000,000 — 

 equivalent to $350 of nour- 

 ishment for each man of 

 the million now under arms 

 in the military and naval 

 establishments of the 

 United States. For this 

 tremendous achievement of 

 nroduction too much credit 

 cannot be given the P'ood 

 Garden Commission which 

 has worked in affiliation 

 with the Conservation De- 

 partment of the American 

 Forestrv Association. 



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