The Busy Woman's Garden Book 



meat, one has also produced a valuable garden 

 asset in the form of a highly concentrated 

 manm'c; one will also find that one has prac- 

 tically done away with all waste from the garden 

 as the hares will have consumed all the unusable 

 parts of the vegetables — all such early things that 

 vTun to seed, as lettuce, endive, swiss chard and 

 the like. A large part of the weeds incident to 

 a garden will also be consumed if pulled and 

 offered them, thus minimizing the weed growth 

 for the coming year, as every weed consumed 

 means just so many less to appear the following 

 year. It will be many years before the lesson 

 of the home garden so insistently brought before 

 us by the war will be lost, but we shall not have 

 gained the full measure of its lesson if we do 

 not realize that the critical shortage of meat 

 is not up to the farmer and stockman altogether, 

 but is a matter for each individual householder to 

 adjust by producing, as far as his environment 

 will permit, his own meat supply, by raising 

 chickens and hares if only room for small stock is 

 available, and pork if it is possible to find room 

 and feed for a pig — and a pig does not require 



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