CHAPTER X 



Vegetable Growing for the 

 Home Table 



The life of the husbandman, — a life fed by the 

 bounty of earth, and sweetened by the airs of 

 heaven. 



— J err old. 



It is predicted that this year, — 1917, — will be 

 the greatest year for gardening that the country 

 ever has known ! 



The high cost of living first stimulated interest. 

 Then after war was declared, the slogan, ^ ' Food as 

 important as men or munitions,'' stirred young and 

 old. Garden clubs sprang up everywhere, and in 

 free lectures people were instructed how to pre- 

 pare, plant and cultivate whatever ground they 

 could get, from small backyards to vacant lots. 



In our neighborhood last year a man with a plot 

 of ground less than half the size of a tennis court, 



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