1 64 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
the necessary outfit in its simplest form is already at 
hand. Effective drying may be done on plates or 
dishes placed in the oven, with the oven door partly 
open. It may be done on the back of the kitchen stove 
with these same utensils while the oven is being used 
for baking. It may also be done on sheets of paper or 
lengths of muslin spread in the sun and protected from 
insects and dust. 
The earth lives by the light and the heat of the sun. 
This beneficent power should be put to work by the 
victory gardeners of the United States, and thus will 
this country gain a rightful and legitimate “ place in 
the sun.” Luther Burbank, a member of the National 
War Garden Commission, says: 
How few people are aware of the scientific fact that 
all food and all clothing without any exception are first 
produced by the action of sunlight on the foliage of 
plants, and that but for the wonderful chemical engines 
installed in the foliage of plants no life could exist upon 
the earth; and only by the improvements which have 
been made in plants and animals which subsist on 
the productions of plants has our present civilization 
been made possible. 
This gift from Heaven which makes the plants to 
grow and without which there could be no production, 
should be utilized also in the conservation of food. 
