THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 29 
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: 
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. 
Beets — 25 bunches 
Carrots — 2 pecks 
Radishes — 15 bunches 
Rutabagas — 64 
Early peas — 32 quarts (pods) 
Potatoes — 7 pecks 
Cabbage — 20 heads 
Cauliflower — 14 heads 
Tomatoes — 6 baskets 
Bunch beans — 2>£ pecks 
Telephone peas — 40 quarts (pods) 
Peppers — 9 dozen 
garden — 7 baskets 
Lettuce — equivalent of 60 heads 
Horseradish — all desired 
Onion sets — 3 quarts 
Onions dried — ^ bushel 
Cucumbers — 100 
Celery — 450 stalks 
Rhubarb — 10 bunches 
Scallions — 12 bunches 
Parsley — used freely 
Dried beans for winter use — 20 quarts 
Peaches, from two trees in corner of 
Pole beans — 108 quarts 
