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Grow Vitamins at Your Kitchen Deor 
yz this, the greatest war the world has ever known, food will be the 
great factor in determining the outcome. Claude Wickard, Secretary 
of Agriculture, says: ‘’There is a wartime demand for a good deal more 
food than farmers can produce,” and, ‘‘It will be advisable to have them 
(vegetables) grown near to the centers where they will be used.’’ The 
answer to the nation’s call for greater food production, to build and 
maintain health for these strenuous days, is the Home Garden, the 
Back-yard Garden, the Community Garden. Here supplies of fresh vege- 
tables and fruits can be grown, not only for immediate consumption, 
but for use all the year around by canning, drying and preserving. 
H. W. Hockbaum, Extension Service Head, U. S$. Department of 
Agriculture, says in the December issue of the ‘’Flower Grower’’/— 
“It is a wartime must that our people should have full supplies of 
protective foods, foods which carry the essential minerals and 
vitamins so necessary in maintaining health. Here’s where the 
home gardener can come into his own. He can and should 
produce as large a supply of certain vegetables and fruits as 
possible to supplement the other protective foods, i. e., milk, 
eggs, meat, enriched bread. Come what may, he then 
assures himself that his family will have adequate supplies 
of fresh and preserved essential foods.” 
“In order to be sure that there will be enough of the 
most essential vegetables, our Victory Gardens must .be 
larger this year, and grow something from earliest spring 
to the hard freezes of winter. Seasonal surpluses should 
“be canned, brined, or dried, and pits prepared for stor- 
ing the late vegetables for winter use.” 
Warnings of food shortages are appearing more 
and more often in our local newspapers. The De- 
partment of Agriculture at Washington and the 
heads of great national associations of farmers 
are trying to make you recognize this fact now, 
while you still have time to do something about 
it. Ralph Moore, the Legislative Chairman of 
the National Grange says: ‘‘We face the 
gravest food shortage in the history of the 
United States.’ This year of all years, you 
need to assure your family and yourself 
of an adequate supply of fruits and vege- 
tables. If you don’t have room’ in your 
own yard without digging up the lawn, 
perhaps there is a vacant lot nearby 
where you and a neighbor or two can 
have War Gardens. 
One of the most profitable gardens 
we saw last summer was a com- 
bination planting of vegetables and 
flowers.. Clumps of beets, carrots, 
and swiss chard right in the flow- 
er beds. Edgings of radish and 
lettuce; tomatoes, beans and 
peas on stakes in front of and 
in between the shrubs. The 
vegetables did not detract 
from the beauty of the 
flower border; in fact, they 
added to it. 
Pay heed to the warn- 
ings of food experts. 
What better health and 
peace of mind _ insur- 
ance can be asked 
for than a vegetable 
garden of your 
own? 






























































“A YEAR FROM NOW 
WHAT WILL WE WISH 
WE HAD DONE TODAY” 
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