164 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



the necessary outfit in its simplest form is already at 

 hand. Effective drying may be done on plates or 

 dishes placed in the oven, with the oven door partly 

 open. It may be done on the back of the kitchen stove 

 with these same utensils while the oven is being used 

 for baking. It may also be done on sheets of paper or 

 lengths of muslin spread in the sun and protected from 

 insects and dust. 



The earth lives by the light and the heat of the sun. 

 This beneficent power should be put to work by the 

 victory gardeners of the United States, and thus will 

 this country gain a rightful and legitimate "place in 

 the sun. " Luther Burbank, a member of the National 

 War Garden Commission, says: 



How few people are aware of the scientific fact that 

 all food and all clothing without any exception are first 

 produced by the action of sunlight on the foliage of 

 plants, and that but for the wonderful chemical engines 

 installed in the foliage of plants no life could exist upon 

 the earth; and only by the improvements which have 

 been made in plants and animals which subsist on 

 the productions of plants has our present civilization 

 been made possible. 



This gift from Heaven which makes the plants to 

 grow and without which there could be no production, 

 should be utilized also in the conservation of food. 



