only by the fact that it ante-dates the war) consume from sixteen to 
eighteen hours a day. The week that the Bulletin is being prepared 
for press means nightly typewriting until midnight. The Bulletin 
when it finally emerges is twenty-four small pages read by perhaps 
one-fifth of our two thousand members. A very smaU task, you would 
say, and one about which no self-respecting editor should complain. 
But to compile these pages the French and English garden magazines 
are read, American trade journals skimmed through, advertisements 
soHcited, arranged, and collected for, reports rewritten (because they 
are always longer than are requested), long-hand manuscripts copied 
(because being non-commercial we are expected to accept them that 
way). The editor is the employer of three and a half secretaries and 
stenographers who work from nine to five. Then they go home. So 
does the editor; but because they have had no time during their 
day to write Bulletin letters, make up Bulletin accovmts, copy 
Bulletin manuscripts, the editor's faithful non-union Corona works 
overtime assisted not too ably by the editor. 
So now we ask again. Is the Bulletin worth while? If you really 
want it, if you reaUy read it, it is. If it is stimulating, interesting, 
patriotic, encouraging, it is. But do you wonder that, as we sit copying 
manuscripts and arranging clippings and sending night letters for 
belated reports at ii 130 p.m. with no one to help us or encourage us or 
advise us, adding one more unread pamphlet to the tidal wave of 
printed utterances of war seems a non-essential industry? 
Growing Vegetable Seed 
As the production of food is one of the most important problems 
this coimtry has to deal with at present, and, as seeds for this purpose 
are scarce and growing scarcer, it behooves us all this year, to look 
intelKgently into the matter of growing our own vegetable seeds, in so 
far as is possible. As a matter of fact, the very best vegetable seed 
obtainable for many crops is that which is home grown. 
We will take up, first, the general methods for the home produc- 
tion of vegetable seeds, and, after that, the vegetables with which we 
are most famihar will be treated individually. 
In choosing seeds for propagation, select those from the best 
plants. They should not be harvested until they are fully ripe. It is 
important to gather them promptly, when they are mature, or the 
seeds will begin to get moldy or to sprout or discolor. Seeds are gen- 
erally ripe when the pods turn yellow or when the fruits, as tomatoes 
and melons, lose their firmness. In the case of the fruit crops, such as 
