
dollars and cents. 
The Effort Butacashsavingis 
Keeps You Fit the least of the ben- 
= efits that will be yours when you grow a part 
of your food supply. The exercise is as healthful as golj, as Interesting 
and cheaper withail. After a round of gardening, try a shower and 
a change of clothing, and see how you feel. - 
Your Vegetables Have More The products of your own garden 
Vitamins and Better Flavor 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. 

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oF VITAMINS 
FOOD 
YOU GROW 
YOURSELF AIDS 
DEFENSE 
Not many of us have land enough to produce the 
family’s entire vegetable supply, but all of us can grow 
some portion of it. It is surprisimg how real a contribution 
even a small garden will make to your annual food-bill. 
Vegetable-Growing Pays 
You may have been told that vegetables are so cheap it does not pay to grow 
them, but this is no longer true; vegetable-growing is profitable, even on a basis of 
No Risk of | Do you like the idea of strangers handling your 
Food-Poisoning food? Are the conditions under which it is grown 
sanitary? 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 vegetables 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 tenacious, spread Humus at 
the rate of 10 pounds per 10 square feet and then broadcast General 
Garden Fertilizer at the rate of 14 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 vegetables are: 
Beans T 18-24 Endive H 18 Onion H 12 Salsify H 18 
Beet H 18 Kale H 24 Parsley H 18 Scorzonera H 18 
Broccoli H 30 Kohlrabi H 18 Parsnip H 18 Spinach H 18 
Cabbage H 24 Leek H 18 Peas H 24-40 Swiss Chard H 18 
Carrot H 18 Lettuce H 18 Pepper T 18 Tomato T 24 
Corn T 24-36 Muskmelon T 72 Pumpkin T 100 Turnip H 18 
Cucumber T 40 Mustard H 18 Radish H 12 
Eggplant T 24 N. Z. Spinach T 24 Rutabaga H 18 
T=tender; H =hardy. Figures indicate inches ‘between rows, hills or plants. 
Vegetables that need more care are: 
Asparagus Cauliflower Celery Chicory Sweet Potatoes 
Mushrooms 
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. Make sowings of the followmg short- 
season sorts every few weeks, for what is termed succession cropping. 
Bush Beans Carrot Cucumber Lettuce Radish Swiss. Chard 
Beet Cress Endive Mustard Spinach Turnip 
Crowd quick companion crops, like lettuce, between slow kinds, like cabbage. 
Quick ones mature before others need the room. 
STUMPP & WALTER CO. 

No Garden Is Too Small for Vegetables —The quantity of food that a 
space 50x50 feet, or even 25x50 feet, will produce may surprise you. 
To Get the Most from a Vegetable Plot 
(1) Dig and rake the earth. Work in General Garden Fertilizer, allowing 14 
pound to % pound per 10 square feet. 
(2) Before May 15, sow in rows seeds of any of the “Simple” sorts that are 
marked “H’” in the list to the left. The figures show the number of inches 
that you allow between rows. If you prefer, 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’’. If you prefer, put 
out plants of tomato, pepper and eggplant. Corn, cucumber, muskmelon 
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) Broadcast fertilizer and hoe between the rows every two weeks. Pull 
weeds. 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. b 
You can buy the plants suggested above, but it is more thrifty to raise 
them indoors against a sunny window, sowing seeds in March in sandy soil. 
Raise plants outdoors of cabbage or broccoli for succession planting later. 
When sowing seeds, try to cover them with a layer of soil no thicker than 
twice their diameter. 
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