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July, 1918 



diffused the chemical nicely through the 

 whole vegetable. My family and I found 

 them delicious. Those who had two portions 

 were exactly twice as sick as those who had one 

 portion however, so that honors are even on the 

 score. Had I not survived to explain what 

 ailed us all, the real criminal would not have 

 been detected, and a respectable plot story 

 would have grown up. — E. S. J., Penna. 



Los Angeles Rose. — I do not recall during 

 the past season having seen any particular 

 mention in this magazine of the recently 

 introduced H. T. Rose Los Angeles. [A refer- 

 ence was made in the Novelty Review last 

 March, p. 90. — Ed.] About the middle of 

 last October I had the pleasure of viewing 

 five plants of this variety that had been 

 planted in the Pittsburg, Pa., district in 

 early April. To say that I was surprised 

 at the growth made would be putting it 

 mildly, the size would have been a credit to 

 a husky H. P., many of the shoots being 

 nearly four feet in length and correspondingly 

 heavy, and covered with unopened buds that 

 rivaled a Paul Neyron in size. The owner 

 assured me that during their first blooming 

 period in June the plants averaged better 

 than twenty blooms. This result was ac- 

 complished by an amateur in his first attempt 

 at growing fine Roses, and while his bed was 

 well and thoroughly prepared, he had only 

 the usual cultural directions to guide him. — 

 E. A. W., Pa. 



A Good Way to Get Early Potatoes.— In Mr. 

 McCollom's article on "Potato Culture" in 

 the Garden Magazine for March he does not 

 refer to a method of starting potatoes I have 

 seen practiced in the market gardens around 

 Boston more than forty years ago. I tried it 

 myself last year with excellent success, and 

 I shall try it again this year. We had a very 

 late and wet spring last year and when the 

 work could be started, it all came in a rush. 

 I could not get my ground ready in time so I 

 thought of the way I had seen potatoes 



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Goldberg in (N. Y.) Mail 



The Army of Feed-Allies-All 



The Lanciers of tasseled Corn are flashing sabres green, 



And fashioning projectiles in projectile-cases green, 



Beside the golden Wheat Brigades — a mighty-bannered throng 



That's marching to the cadence of the reaper's magic song. 



And heavy-larded Hog Hussars are guarding on the flanks, 

 Where all the Garden Infantry have rushed into the ranks, 

 Equipped to fight with poison fumes and can grenades and hoe, 

 And reinforced to feed themselves to beat a hungry foe. 



And see the Crimson Cavaliers and Clovers White and Red, 

 Marshaled in the valleys where the Bovine Legions tread 

 To Aggie Culture's urging and her natural command 

 For everyone to plow and plant and cultivate the land. 



From Dixieland the Cotton Guards in phalanges arise 



To greet the summer sunbeams that are reaching from the skies, 



And weaving snowy banners in the dreamy Southern air 



For bandages of mercy for the legions over there. 



Old General Necessity's at work with all his strength 

 Erecting rural battlements to help us win at length; 

 But — now the order's given, "Man the Silo-metre gun"; 

 The battle of Feed-Allies-All has finally begun. 



LlTTELL McCLUNG. 



handled at home. I had plenty of glass so 

 I cut the potatoes in the usual way, two eyes to 

 a piece, worked over a bed six feet square for 

 two frames of glass, raked it over and used a 

 little sheep manure. I laid the potato pieces 

 over this surface as closely as possible, so 

 the bed when done was completely covered 

 with potatoes. I then sifted an inch of good 

 soil on them and put on the glass. In a week 

 they were coming through, and in two weeks 

 they were eight to ten inches high. I had 

 the ground ready by then and after spading 

 the rows, eighteen inches wide, the full depth 

 of the spade, I lifted them from the bed with 

 a fork, laid them in baskets and then trans- 

 planted them in the field. They never wilted; 

 each piece of potato was a mass of roots and 

 did not show effects of moving at all. They 

 began to grow at once. I planted some 

 Green Mountain potatoes the usual way and 

 I could see no difference in the yield. This is 

 a good way to get early potatoes or to get 

 them started before the land is ready. It 

 is also a good way to start 

 insures a crop in this latitude, 

 toes may also be started in 

 /. P. Poland, Springfield, Mass. 



peanuts and 

 Sweet pota- 

 this way. — 



Luther Burbank has written a splendid sur- 

 vey of the part the home gardener plays in 

 America's herculean task of assuming re- 

 sponsibility for meeting the food needs of the 

 world next year. This will be published in 

 the August Garden Magazine and will be 

 appropriately illustrated in a special cover de- 

 sign entitled: "Over Here and Over There" 

 by Frank Spradling. Plans for next year's 

 campaign must be made now, when we are 

 harvesting the results of 1918 and really have 

 our foot on the threshold of the work for 1919. 



INDEX TO VOL. XXVII. The semi-an- 

 nual volume of the Garden Magazine is com- 

 pleted with this issue. An index to contents has 

 been prepared and will be sent gratis on request- 

 Subscribers who so desire may have their copies 

 bound in cloth at a cost of $1.25.. 



Calories in Cans 



How Much Should Be "Put Up" For a Family? 



DID you know that you were growing 

 calories in the strawberry patch, on 

 the cherry trees and the tomato 

 vines? We seldom think of fruits 

 and vegetables as "energy foods." We count 

 on them rather for their health promoting 

 qualities. But there are some calories (units 

 of energy) tucked away in the string beans, 

 sugar corn, lucious blackberries and red 

 currants. And occasionally it is a surpris- 

 ingly large number of calories. In fact ex- 

 perts have .estimated that, if put to it, one 

 could get about a third of all the calories one 

 needed out of fruits and vegetables. 



The best part of this potential energy out 

 in the garden is that it can be stored and 

 used at will when the season is past. The 

 storage battery is a plain glass jar, the pro- 

 cess is commonly known as either the "open 

 kettle," or the "cold pack," the repository 

 is the shelf in the basement store room. 



How much of that energy, in common 

 everyday terms, shall you count on storing 

 up for your family of five? A good assort- 

 ment would be 3 quarts of fruit, 2 quarts of 

 tomatoes, and 3 quarts of other vegetables 

 for every week of the canned-goods season. 



= 32 weeks 



= 64 quarts of tomatoes 



= 96 quarts of other vegetables 



= 96 quarts of fruit 



That season we may estimate at about from 

 the first of October to the first of June. 

 Let us figure up. 



October 1st to June 1st 



32 x 2 



32x3 



32x3 



Or let us say in round measures, 65 quarts 

 of tomatoes, 100 quarts of other vegetables, 

 100 quarts of fruit. It must be remembered 

 that sugar is used in canning fruit, and that 

 brings up considerably the calorie value of a 

 quart of fruit. On the other hand it is not 

 unfair to estimate this as energy actually put 

 away for future use, because when one takes 

 down a jar of fruit from the shelf, it is used 

 "sugar and all." A can of vegetables on the 

 other hand relies only on the original amount 

 of energy contained in the vegetables. 



The following are approximate figures for 

 quart cans of fruits and vegetables. 



FRUITS 





VEGETABLES 





Apples . . 1,560 



calories 



Asparagus 



170 calories 



Apricots. . 680 



" 



String Beans 



190 





Blackberries 1,870 



" 



Lima Beans 



960 



' 



Blueberries 550 



u n 



Corn 



910 



' 



Cherries 830 





Peas 



510 



* 



Peaches 440 



" 



Pumpkin 



300 



' 



Pineapple 1,43° 



" 



Squash 



S70 



' 



Raspberries 1,870 



" 



Tomatoes 



2IO 



Strawberries 920 











Your choice may include 



65 quarts tomatoes 



25 



25 



15 



15 



10 



5 



5 



25 



5 



15 



20 

 15 

 IO 



5 



corn . 



peas . 

 asparagus 

 string beans 

 lima beans 

 pumpkin 

 squash . 

 strawberries 

 apricots 

 apples 

 cherries . 

 peaches . 

 pineapple 

 blackberries 

 raspberries . 



This will mean: 



13,650 calories 

 22,750 " 

 12,750 



2,55° 



2,850 " 



9,600 " 



1.500 " 



2,850 

 23,000 " 



3,400 

 23,400 " 

 16,600 



6,600 " 

 14,300 



9.350 

 18,700 " 



This will make a total of 183,850 heat units 

 stored up for the winter. The normal re- 

 quirement of an individual ranges from 1,000 

 to 2,000 calories a day, according to circum- 

 stances. 



It might be worth while to label each 

 jar as it is put on the shelf according 

 to the actual amount of energy producing 

 material which you know has gone into it. 

 The number of calories per pound of any 

 fruit or vegetable can be found by consulting 

 Farmer's Bulletin No. 142 which may be ob- 

 tained on request from the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



