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Mr. Town “Loiter ”! — 
Your country calls you to help. We face a very serious food shortage. In the emergency, 
your garden space, your muscles, and your spare time must be enlisted. 
President Wilson says: “Everyone who cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solve 
the problem of feeding the nation!” 
Remember, somebody has to raise everything you eat. A garden in your back yard, 
though small, will surprise you by the amount of vegetables it will produce. A lot of patriotic 
folks are going to have a garden this summer. Why don’t you have one, too? There’s plenty 
of time if you will start right now . Let the boys and girls have a hand in it. Here is a plan 
you can follow — with success. 
Plan First Before You Plant 
Hit or miss gardening wastes time and energy and does 
not yield good results; so plan your garden carefully. 
Remember, winter vegetables will count most this year. 
Grow the small, early maturing crops between the rows of 
winter vegetables. 
GIT THE GROUND IN GOOD SHAPE. — (1) Apply fine or well- 
rotted stable manure If you can get It. (2) Plow or spade from 7 to 8 
Inches deep. (3) Rake until thoroughly pulverized and leave level and 
smooth. 
WHEN TO PLANT.— Sow seed for late tomato plants Indoors at once. 
Later, you may be able to buy plants from your grocer. 
Plant early beets, early carrots, lettuce, onions (seed and sets), peas, radishes, 
and early turnips as soon as you get the garden ready. 
Plant late beets, carrots, parsnips, salsify, and seed for late cabbage plants about 
May 1-5. 
Plant beans, com, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes after frost damage is past. 
Set late cabbage the last of June. 
Sow turnips and winter radishes late in July on all ground used for early matur- 
ing vegetables. 
Lettuce, peas, radishes, beans, and com may be planted at two weeks intervals 
to ensure a constant supply. 
SOME OTHER THINGS TO REMEMBER.— The best crops to plant for a winter 
supply are: beets, cabbage, carrots, celery, onions, parsnips, rutabagas, turnips, 
and tomatoes. Suggestions will be made later on storing and preserving these. 
Unless you have a large garden, don’t waste your space by growing potatoes, 
com, squash, and other vine crops. 
Plant seed of standard varieties — don’t experiment with new varieties this year. 
After the Garden Is Planted 
— your work has just started. Stay by it and you will find 
it both profitable and enjoyable. Have appetizing fresh 
vegetables on the table during summer, home-canned vege- 
tables on the shelf and others in storage in the cellar. Don't 
let the hot weather wilt your patriotism. 
USE THE HOE to keep the surface soli loose and fine. Hoe shallow 
—the roots are near the surface. Hoe after each rain and at least 
once a week. Be sure to wait until the soli Is dry enough before hoe- 
ing— this prevents lumps. Frequent hoeing kills the weeds before 
they get above ground. 
Plan right now to can or atore surplus vegetables. 
“More Food This Year Is Patriotism” 
If you want to know more about gardens ask your neighbor who has had one or write 
Agricultural Experiment Station, The University of Wisconsin 
Madison 
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