30 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



"Help Your Country and Yourself by Raising Your Own 

 Vegetables." 



As we will likely have to send to Europe in coming years 

 as much or even more food than we did last year, there is 

 only one way to avoid a shortage among our own people, that 

 is by raising a great deal more than usual. To do this we 

 must plant every bit of available land. (Of course, we 

 can't ; the owners won't let us. Ed.) 



If you have a back yard, you can do your part and help the 

 world and yourself by raising some of the food you eat. The 

 more you raise the less you will have to buy, and the more 

 there will be left for some of your fellow countrymen who 

 have not an inch of ground on which to raise anything. 



If there is a vacant lot in your neighborhood, see if you 

 cannot get the use of it for yourself and your neighbors, and 

 raise your own vegetables. An hour a day spent in this 

 way will not only increase wealth and help your family, but 

 will help you personally by adding to your strength and 

 well-being and making you appreciate the Eden joy of gar- 

 dening. An hour in the open air is worth more than a dozen 

 expensive prescriptions by an expensive doctor. 



The only tools necessary for a small garden are a spade or 

 spading fork, a hoe, a rake, and a line or piece of cord. 



First of all, clear the ground of all rubbish, sticks, stones, 

 bottles, etc. (especially whisky bottles). 



Choose the sunniest spot in the yard for your garden. 



Dig up the soil to a depth of 6 to 10 inches, using a spade 

 or spading fork. (Deeper for parsnips and some other 

 roots. Ed.) Break up all the lumps with the spade or 

 fork. 



If you live in a section where your neighbors have gardens, 

 you might club together to hire a teamster for a day to do 



