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bonus besides. 
The Effort But a cash saving is the 
Keeps You Fit Jeast of the benefits that 
will be yours when you grow a part of your food 
supply. The exercise is as healthful as golf, as inter- 
esting and cheaper withall. After a round of gardening, 
try a shower and a change of clothing, and see how you feel. 
Your Vegetables Have More 
is v The products of your rden 
Vitamins and Better Flavor i tag Ripe 
are more health-giving because the 
fresher vegetables are, the more vitamins they contain; everyone 
knows that newly picked vegetables have far more flavor than those 
that are days old; corn, peas, and beans are among those that are so 
superior when fresh picked that they are entirely different. Most 
commercial crops are harvested before they are quite ready, to allow 
them to mature on the journey from the field to your table. Yours 
are ripening on the plant right up to the hour that you use them. 
dollars and cents. 

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Aid in 
Our Country’s 
Defense—Produce It! 
Not many of us have Iand enough to pro- 
duce the family’s entire vegetable supply, but 
all of us can grow some portion of it. It Is surpris- 
ing how real a contribution even a small garden will 
make to your annual food-bill. 
Vegetable- Growing Pays You Money 
You may have been told that vegetables are so cheap it does not pay to grow 
them, but this is not true; vegetable-growing is profitable, even on a basis of 
If you give yourself, and other members of your family, 50 cents 
for each hour spent in the garden you wil! have remaining in your pocket, at the end of the 
season, a substantial part of the sum your budget allows for food. Half a dollar an hour is not a 
=== munificent sum, but there are few hobbies that will guarantee to pay you this, and a handsome 
No Risk of 
t - Do you like the idea of strangers handling your 
Food-Poisoning 
food? Are the conditions under which it is grown 
sanitary? Do you fear infection therefrom? Are you nervous of 
contamination from impure water, infected soil or manure? You can 
control these in your own garden. Do you worry about your vege- 
tables and fruits having been sprayed with arsenic? Around the 
home you can use insecticides that are not poisonous. 
Commercial Varieties When you grow your own, you will enjoy 
Not Necessarily a quality money cannot buy. From the 
the Best for You scores of varieties available, you can make 
your selection for superior flavor alone; the professional grower has 
to confine himself to kinds that resist the diseases which accompany 
mass production, that will ship satisfactorily, store well or have 
some other commercial advantage, which may have little relation to 
their palatability. To be sure of quality, grow your own. 
Growing Vegetables Is a Patriotic Duty—and Is Easy ; 
Cultural instructions for each vegetable will be found in the follow- 
ing pages and printed on the seed packets. 
If your soil is either sandy or very tenaceous, spread Humus at 
the rate of 15 pounds per 10 square feet and then broadcast General 
Garden Fertilizer at the rate of 144 to 14 pound to each 10 square feet. 
If you decide that the Humus Is not needed, do not omit the General 
Garden Fertilizer. Dig the land, turning each spadeful, then rake 
smooth and plant. Repeat the digging and fertilizing when your 
summer gardening is over, and, some time during winter, broadcast 
34 pound garden lime per 10 square feet. 
Sow seed or put your plants out in rows; these should be wide 
enough to allow you to walk between them. Remove seedlings where 
they crowd, so that your plants are the distance apart that is sug- 
gested in the cultural notes. Hoe between the plants every ten days, 
but before you hoe dust General Garden Fertilizer on the surface of 
the soil, so that your cultivation sends it under. 

Simple Sorts and Some Not-So-Simple 
Easily grown vagetables are: 
Beans T 18 Endive H 15 Onion H 12 Salsify H 12 
Beet H 18 Kale H 24 Parsley H 12 Scorzonera H 12 
Broccoli H 30 Kohlrabi H 18 Parsnip H 18 Spinach H 14 
Cabbage H 24 Leek H 12 Peas H 20-40 Swiss Chard H 18 
Carrot H 14 Lettuce H 12 Pepper T 20 Tomato T 30 
Corn T 30 Muskmelon T 72 Pumpkin T 100 Turnip H 14 
Cucumber T 40 Mustard H 12 Radish H 12 
Eggplant T 24 N. Z. Spinach T 24 Rutabaga H 15 
Vegetables that need more care are: 
Asparagus Cauliflower Celery Chicory Mushrooms Sweet Potatoes 
Succession and Companion Cropping Save Space 
Arrange your plantings to get a continuous supply throughout the season, 
rather than a large amount at one time. Take advantage of “early” and “late” 
varieties. Make sowings of the following short-season sorts every few weeks, 
for what is termed “succession cropping.” 
Bush Beans Carrot Cucumber Lettuce Radish Swiss Chard 
eet Cress Endive Mustard Spinach Turnip 
Crowd quick companion crops, like lettuce, between slow ‘kinds, like 
cabbage. The quick ones mature before others need room. 

To Get the Most from a Vegetable Plot 
(1) Dig and rake the earth. Work in General Garden Fertilizer, allowing 
21% pounds to 5 pounds per 100 square feet. mal 
(2) Before May 15, sow in rows seeds of any of the “Simple” sorts that are 
marked ‘‘H’’ in the list to the left, meaning “‘Hardy.’’ The figures show 
the number of inches of bare soil that you allow between rows. Put out 
plants of cabbage or broccoli; numbers tell you the distance between plants. 
(3) After May 15, sow in rows seeds of varieties marked “‘T,’”’ meaning ““Tender.”” 
Put out plants of tomato, pepper and eggplant. Corn, cucumber, musk- 
melon and pumpkin are usually grown in groups or “hills” of 3 to 5 plants; 
6 to 10 seeds are sown to each hill, seedlings being removed to leave the 
desired number. Figures indicate inches between hills. 
(4) Hoe or rake the soil between the rows every two weeks. Pull out weeds 
between the plants. Remove surplus plants to avoid overcrowding. 
(5) Support tall things with stakes. 
(6) As soon as one crop has been gathered, dig under more Fertilizer, and sow 
one of the succession crops listed on the left. 
_ Read the cultural notes for each vegetable on the following pages; complete 
Instructions are also on our seed packets. 
You can buy the plants suggested above, but it is more thrifty to raise 
them indoors against a sunny window, sowing seeds in March im sandy soil. 
Raise plants outdoors of cabbage or broccoli for succession planting later. 
When sowing seeds, try to cover them with a Jayer of soil no thicker than 
twice their diameter. 

56 Vegetable Seeds 
No Garden Is Too Small for Vegetables —The quantity of food that a 
space 50x50 feet, or even 25x25 feet, will produce may surprise you, 
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