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The war is rapidly teaching us to measure many things by 
their service value rather than by the dollar value. The dollar 
value in times like this is uncertain. Plan your food gardens and 
measure their results in rations. Have you four in your family? 
Estimate the quannty Scan og meal for four, the number of 
times the yb yand plant to grow that amount. 
Most of thes garden y be canned profitably at home, 
and only when young, a fresh, are they at their best for canning. 
The more of these vegetables that are canned for family use this 
year, the longer they can be substituted for the foods we are 
urged to save. 
cee sugar, fat, and sie are urgently needed ‘“‘over there.” 
The United States g this appeal directly to each 
family in America, to cut the use of these supplies on this side, 
bl 
—and make it save them. 
Henry G. Parsons 
TREE-PLANTING FOR FORESTS 
Simply because forests form one of the most important of the 
no idle acres, and this applies to non-agricultural land too. 
