1 60 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
from Canada alone. Following their example the 
Quartermaster-General’s Office of the United States 
War Department prepared to make similar use of this 
kind of food. In the spring of 1918 the army used 
14,000,000 pounds of dehydrated goods, and later an 
order was placed with American and Canadian food 
driers for more than 40,000,000 pounds to be delivered 
before July 1, 1919. 
The use of food that is recognized as a valuable army 
ration and as a war-time economy, is to be encouraged 
in normal times. The same reasons which made it prac- 
tical and economical during the war will be arguments 
in favor of its continued and increased use. Certainly 
for many years to come, just how many nobody can say, 
food will be a world problem. In the solution of this 
problem dried food can and should play a constantly 
growing part. 
The expert testimony in favor of dehydration is well 
summed up in a statement by David Fairchild, agricul- 
tural explorer in charge of the Office of Foreign Plant 
Introduction, United States Department of Agriculture. 
He has made this statement: 
I believe the American public should learn to use 
dried vegetables, because in so doing great economies 
can be brought about in this country as they have been 
in Germany and Austria. The dehydrated vegetable 
saves transportation of both bulky fresh vegetables and 
bulky canned vegetables, not only those portions which 
are actually consumed but the waste which forms so 
large a part of the garbage of our cities. The dehydrated 
