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In size it was 40x40 feet. The gardener kept a careful 

 record during one entire year of the quantities of food 

 produced in that garden. His figures are as follows: 



Beets— 25 bunches Cucumbers— loo 



Carrots— 2 pecks Celery— 450 stalks 



Radishes— 15 bunches Rhubarb— 10 bunches 



Rutabagas— 64 Scallions— 12 bunches 



Early peas — 32 quarts (pods) Parsley — used freely 



Potatoes — 7 pecks Dried beans for winter use — 20 quarts 



Cabbage — 20 heads Peaches, from two trees in corner of 

 Cauliflower — 14 heads garden— 7 baskets 



Tomatoes — 6 baskets Lettuce — equivalent of 60 heads 



Bunch beans — zyi pecks Horseradish — all desired 



Telephone peas — 40 quarts (pods) Onion sets — 3 quarts 



Peppers — 9 dozen Onions dried — yi bushel 

 Pole beans — 108 quarts 



If this production, such as could be had from any 

 ordinary back-yard garden with good soil, were reduced 

 to pounds and ounces, it would be found that this one 

 yard had yielded considerably more than half a ton of 

 foodstuffs. It is reckoned that there are more than 

 20,000,000 families in the United States. If every 

 family could have a garden, and each garden could 

 yield half a ton of food, the total annual produc- 

 tion would aggregate 10,000,000 tons, or almost twice 

 as much in weight as we normally shipped to Europe 

 in a year in pre-war days. Of course it was not pos- 

 sible for each of our 20,000,000 families to have a gar- 

 den, but with 45 per cent, of our people living in the 

 country or in small towns, and with such vast areas 

 of vacant lots in the larger cities, it would be entirely 

 possible to have 10,000,000 war gardens. These gar- 

 dens, could they produce at the rate of this Pennsyl- 

 vania garden, would yearly supply in weight as much 

 food as before the war we annually shipped to Europe. 



