HOW THE WAR GARDENERS ANSWERED 



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transportation these and other reasons will tend to make 

 drying a more and more desirable method of conserving 

 vegetables and fruits for future use. 



Reversing the orders to the German army to 

 "DESTROY EVERYTHING," which the Huns have 

 carried out with faithful barbarity, the home food pro- 

 ducers of the United States have made their motto; 

 "SAVE EVERYTHING." This they have carried out 

 by canning and drying all surplus products. 



When it is re- 

 membered that 

 more than 

 4,750,000 peo- 

 ple in Europe 

 have died of 

 starvation 

 since the be- 

 ginning of the 

 \\ a r m ore 

 than have 

 been killed in 

 the fighting 

 the necessity 

 of raising and 

 saving food so 

 as to reduce 

 this suffering 

 to a minimum 

 is realized. 

 The war gar- 

 den is a big 

 ally in this 

 great humani- 

 tarian work ; 

 and it will con- 

 tinue to be so 

 after the war, 

 for it will be 

 years before 

 the hunger of 

 the world will 

 be appeased. 

 There will be 

 a universal de- 

 mand for food 

 the day peace 

 is declared 

 which it will 

 be impossible 

 to fill. 



The food 

 controllers of 

 Great Britain, 

 France and 



WHERE IT COMES FROM 



Here is one of the thousands of girls who arc working in the gardens of the Oliver Chilled Plow Company 

 to produce food to fill the pantry shelves. 



Italy and the food administrator of the United States 

 had a recent conference in London to discuss the food 

 situation, at which they set forth in a resolution the 

 following : "It is absolutely necessary that rigid economy 

 and elimination of waste in the consumption and hand- 

 ling of all foodstuffs, as well as increased production, 



should be maintained throughout the European allied 

 countries and in North America. It is only by such 

 economy and elimination of waste that the transporta- 

 tion of the necessary men and supplies from North 

 America to the European front can be accomplished, 

 and that stocks of foodstuffs can be built up in North 

 America as an insurance against the ever-present danger 

 of harvest failure, and the possible necessity for large 

 and emergency drafts to Europe. We cannot admin- 

 ister the food 

 problem on 

 the basis of 

 one year's war. 

 We must pre- 

 pare for its 

 long continu- 

 ance if we are 

 to ensure ab- 

 solute vic- 

 tory." 



The Canada 

 Food Board in 

 a recent state- 

 ment called at- 

 tention to the 

 fact that some 

 of the war 

 gardeners in 

 the Dominion 

 had expressed 

 themselves as 

 unwilling t o 

 sell their sur- 

 p 1 u s vegeta- 

 bles, thus put- 

 t i n g them- 

 selves in the 

 position of 

 growing gar- 

 den truck for 

 money. The 

 Board was 

 afraid that a 

 cons iderable 

 amount of the 

 food grown 

 might be al- 

 lowed to go 

 to waste ; and 

 so it called on 

 the war gar- 

 deners "to for- 

 swear their 

 delicacy in this 

 matter" and to dispose of their surplus "either by sale 

 or by gifts to their less well-situated neighbors." The 

 statement concluded: "The community is being closely 

 knit by the necessities of war. Food production, food 

 storing, food conservation and food distribution are all 

 patriotic services of utmost importance to the whole 



