



What One Gurney Customer _ 
Grew in Her Victory Garden o 
Gurney’s Give You 
SOME TIPS TO HELP WITH 
WINTER STORAGE 
OF VEGETABLES 
Storage Is Cheaper, Easier and, 
Some Say Better Than Canning 




One of the important things to know in get- 
ting the most out of your victory garden is how to 
store the vegetables that you don’t can. We here 
at Gurney’s have had lots of questions from our 
customers asking how to store fruits and vege- 
tables and so are setting down here some simple, 
practical tips to help you. Study them over and 
save them. You’ll find storage is easy, quick. and 
in ‘many cases cheaper and better than canning. 
(30° TO 40°) 
your storage from time to time and take out any that show 
signs of spoiling. ; f 
Store in baskets, boxes, or bins and cover lightly with soil 
or sand to exclude air to prevent drying out. Keep very cool 
and moist. Examine for shrivelling and, if discovered, add 
moisture. 
APPLES and PEARS, CABBAGE and POTATOES—Keep 
very cool—just above freezing—and in a part of your cellar or 
cave where the moisture is just enough to keep from shriv- 
elling. Pears are usually wrapped and apples can be. Store in 
baskets or boxes. Do not cover with soil. Cabbages are usually 
stored on shelves and potatoes in slatted well ventilated boxes, 
PIT STORAGE 
(Alternative for Vegetables Named Above) ~ Don’t Let Those Weeds 
If you haven't room in your, cellar or cave for the vegetables named above you can easily make a pit.storage in ; * 
Go To Seed in YourLawn 

A MOIST COOL STORAGE IS AVAILABLE IN MOST CELLARS 
MOIST COOL STORAGE 
BEETS, CARROTS, PARSNIPS, TURNIPS, SALSIFY, 
WINTER RADISHES, CELERY, RUTABAGAS and other root 
crops of this nature like it cool and moist. A cave or un- 
heated cellar which most homes have is just right. It should 
be ventilated—with a place for new air to come in and the 
old to escape—and the temperature should be kept very cool 
as near to 34 to 36 degrees as possible. A good thermometer 
is a big help and a little regulating of the windows doesn’t 
take much time and pays big dividends. Keep good and moist. 
Be sure all crops, before storage, are well matured, but not 
woody, and free of insect injury, handling injury or disease. 
One bad vegetable can spoil others and you should examine 

“Dear Gurneys: Here are some of 
the fall vegetables from my 1942 
garden from Gurney seeds. As you 
can see, your seeds do the job. In- 
cluded here are onions, carrots 
(Gurney’s coreless and Danver’s 14 
long), cabbage, tomatoes, pump- 
kins, kohl rabi, squash, leeks, and- 
peppers.”—Mrs. Bertha Mull, Good- 
ing, Idaho. a 










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your garden. Find a spot in your garden where soil is light or sandy and well drained. Dig shallow pit 8 to 10 inches 
deep. Dig a shallow ditch around it to drain off melting snows or rain. Line pit with about 6 inches straw, hay, or 
leaves. Place products to be stored in conical heap in pit. Cover with layer of 6 to 8 inches straw. Cover straw with 
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soil to hold it in place and shed water. As colder weather comes add more soil. If snow is present all winter 6 inches 
soil should be enough. If winter is open, more may be needed or better, a 
gZood idea. 
nother layer of straw, hay or corn stalks is a® 
Leave tuft of hay or straw sticking through the top for ventilation. 
Do not put vegetables in until cold weather, Govern size of pit by quantity you wish to remove at one time. Better 
to have several small pits so you can take everything in one pit out at one time, which saves time in winter. 
DRY STORAGE 

(For Onions—Dry Beans—Squash—Pumpkins—Sweet Potatoes) 
ONIONS—Like a dry cool storage. Store away when well rip- 
ened. Cure thoroughly by spreading in thin layers in dry 
place for 10 days. Cut off tops when curing is finished. Store 
in shallow, well ventilated crates. Storage should be cool (35 
degrees) and dry. Cellar is not good place. Don’t let freeze, 
DRY BEANS—tTreat for weevil before storing by placing 
‘~-tight contairer. Put carbon bisulphide in saucer and 
- a top of beums. Put cover on tightly and gas will be 
26 that will go down through beans killing weevil. You 
can buy carbon bisulsphide at local durg store and for barrel 
size container a couple tablespoonsful is enough. Carbon bi- 
How To Get Extra Bloom 
From Morning Glories 
Here’s an idea so many folks have 
found out really works thats we’re going 
to pass it on to you. Usually, when the 
first freeze comes in the fall, your morn- 
ing glory vines are loaded with buds 
that would make world’s of bloom if the 
frost would only hold off. 
Well, you can keep them blooming. Go 
out before the frost comes and cut the por- 
tions of vines that have lots of buds 
on them. Bring the entire vine in and 
place the end in a vase of water in your 
house. You can trail the vine about or 
let it hang down or pin it to a curtain 
as pleases you most. In a few days you 
will be rewarded with WORLD’S OF 
BLOOM right in your house. We have 
only tried it with the Heavenly Blue, but 
there is no reason why it shouldn’t work 
on other kinds. Try it and see. 
Mrs. Blowers Asks For 
Gurney Seed & Nursery Co. 
Gentlemen: 
temperatures. 
about 55 de 
Liked Way We Handled 
Order and Quality of Stock 
Gurney’s, Dear Sirs: Enclosed find 
check to clear order No. 92712. The as- 
paragus plants arrived last week and I 
wish to say we are exceedingly pleased 
with the prompt and proper care given 
my entire order. 
This is our first dealing with your 
company and we know it will be the be- 
ginning of years of association. The 
seed potatoes, especially deserve special 
mention. They arrived, every single one, 
in perfect condition superior to anything 
we have seen localty. Consider us another 
well satisfied and future customer.—Mrs. 
C. H. Fall, Ravenna, Ohio. 
Information On Vitamins 
“Yes, I did like the magazine you sent me this spring. I was especially interest- 
ed in the canning guide and garden plan. I would appreciate seeing some kind of 
chart that would tell just how much of each vegetable we need in our diet and 
how much to provide that amount. I wish too that I could find a chart that would 
tell which vitamins were in which vegetable.”—Mrs. John Blowers, Howad Lake, 
Minn. 
Here’s the best chart we’ve seen on the subject, Mrs. Blowers, and we think all 
the readers will be interested in it and want to save it. We found it in the Better 
Homes and Gardens magazine. It certainly proves the importance of raising and 
having plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits. 

Vitamin A Vitamin Bl 
Vitamin C Vitamin G Vitamin D 




Prevents Vim and Prevents B2 Prevents 
infection, . Vigor, Pre- scurvy, Prevents _ rickets, 
eye trouble vents tired- bad teeth pellagra bad bones 
ness 
Units Adults Should Have Daily 6,000 500 1,500 600 
Ce ATR Ptais. oe gs, y win ws a Ved see 100 20 250 30 oe 
Herving PASPATALUS® 26.05 20006ec00 410 100 350 ae =. 
pening -6eans (Cup) cocsssscscce 900 90 160 <h 
Beets (cup cooked) ............ ~ 70 ale 200 100 20 
sce White Bread ft o.c. seis ve cce 5 6 20 
BYOccoll (26: CUD) * 2... oes sete'ds o% 8,000 oon 400 220 8 
Butter. Serygims “wise. aks bi sie 150 11 Pr 14 os 
Cabbage cooked (cup) ......... 700 700 ye: sh 
DALEDISAMMRW Gp hear eS . toe ase ce 7,700 24 140 100 . 
_ Cauliflower, cooked ............ 100 60 1,100 120 ~ 
Swiss Chard (4% cup cooked)... 12,000 ue 310 250 % 
CEAVOURUIN ee acd Bo cassie aiesc ee rari 40 1,200 40 oe 
ONG Wipe Ee OLALO? -. sass eiciads tee 80 50 400 40 ne 
Serving Whole Wheat Cereal... otigee 48 pee 27 ok 
Peas Cooked % cup ....:...... = 800 100 150 100 hen 
Cheese, cottage % cup .......... 55 — sre é:4 8 
Bee as oni ca eine piale ace.6' vie ere Be 600 15 ea 60 bd 
Fresh Ham, Four Ounces ...... ae. 250 sled er oe 
Kale, % cup cooked ...... a ae 20,000 +2 720 200 oo 
Lettuce, 3 green leaves .. 1,500 15 125 30 ps 
Peaches, Tress, . 4.60 i 700 10 150 ys 
iia tunOD: is. .a ewes «sco beac ies ery 300 ay 90 ae 
Ripe Tomatoes (144 cup) ....... 1,050 35 300 sh 
SQUASHES, PUMPKINS, 
warm, dry storage. Should be well ripened when put in stor- 
age. Handle carefully to prevent bruising. Don’t expose to 
freezing or evert frost. Cure Sweet Potatoes for 10 days in 
80 to 90-degree heat then put with pumpkins and squash at 
‘ grees. Furnace room or bare room or closet is 
about right. Air should be dry. 
sulphide is dangerous near fire so be CAREFUL. Leave in 
container 48 hours and then store in dry place at low (just 
above frezing) temperature. Weevils will not multiply at low 
SWEET POTATOES—Like 
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Burn Up Garden and Lawn 
Rubbish This Fall 
One of the smartest things a gardener 
ean do toward a successful garden next 
year (and one thing too few people do) 
is to burn all rubbish up in the fall. 
Old vegetable stalks and vines, weeds 
and the like should be all raked together 
in a pile this fall and carefully burned. 
Burning these stalks and weeds kills the 
weed seed and the fungus and disease 
growths so that they can’t spread in the 
winter. Besides it leaves your garden 
cleared and ready for fall plowing or 
spring plowing early next year. 
Here’s A Letter Full of 
Good Ideas To Pass Along 
Gentlemen: What do I think of your 
Magazine? Well, you got this order be- 
cause of what you wrote on that page 
5. If all of us would use it and pass on 
our ideas like you suggest and not thi 
Oh, everybody knows enough to do that! 
Everybody is not dumb, but nobody 
knows it aH. 
At last, after years of failures, I now 
can can corn and string beans and know 
they are good before I open them. As 
soon as possible after bringing them in 
from the garden, prepare as for cook- 
ing for table use. Pack into the steril- 
ized glass jars, add salt as for use above 
(1 teaspoon for a quart), add water, 
partly seal and boil for 4 hours and not 
3 hours. Be sure it is a rolling boil, not 
a simmer, Most spoiling is due to it re- 
quiring more boiling than 3 hours. 
I know, but do you know?—Tomato 
plants set deep enough in the ground 
to cover the first few leaves will live 
better, make sturdier plants and fruit. 
better than if reset same depth they 
were.”—Ferne McKee, Onida, S. Dak. 




You Get the Best 
HARDY SEEDS & PLANTS 
GROWN IN THE NORTH 
FOR THE NORTH 
FROM 
Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co. 
YANKTON, S. DAK. 


Gurney’s Tulip Bulhs 
About this time of the “year there are 
usually thousands of people tearing their 
hair over the crab grass (alias water 
grass) that seems to be taking their 
lawn to the exclusion of every decent 
grass. You probably have some in your. 
yard and it seems to be spreading and 
you want to know what to do about it. 
We're sorry, but we can’t recommend 
much but hard work, to get rid of it. 
Crab grass is an annual (lives only one 
year) and if you can stop it from seed- 
ing, you’ve got it licked. Close and fre- 
quent mowing does this, but only,’ if 
you’re sure to rake up the clippings and — 
burn them. Weeds left laying have a 
bad habit of maturing their seed even — 
though cut and if you let them ay, 
you'll have them back again another — 
year. : : 24 seat Ne J 
Close raking, pulling up as much of — 
the plant late in the fall is also nec- 
essary. Then, in the bare spots, where 
the crab grass was, sow and rake in, 
plenty of lawn grass and fertilizer. The 
secret is, by getting a good stand of 
bluegrass, healthy and vigorous, the crab 
grass can’t get a start another year—the 
healthy bluegrass will keep it out. 
A good feeding of fertilizer for your 
lawn is also good insurance against crab 
grass. Sorry we can’t recommend any- 
thing but work, but that’s the best we’ve 
found to control it. Chemicals are dan- 
gerous and kill fertility. We don’t rec- 
ommend you use them. . : 




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Some Iris Planting Helps” 
The fall months of August, September 
and October are excellent for transplant- 
ing Iris, or for the establishment of new 
beds or borders of boughten varieties. 
The Iris should be planted quite shal 
low. The rhizome or the fleshy portion of 
the roots should be planted horizontaily 
with just a light covering of soil, not 
more than an inch and _ possibly less in 
depth. * - ‘ 
Heavy clay soils should be broken: up 
to obtain a successful growth of Iris. 
An addition of well rotted stable manure 
is excellent for this purpose. Do not use 
fresh manure, but well rotted manure 
makes an excellent mulch and is benefi- 
= to the Iris when well dug into the 
soil. 
Do not allow your Tris to become 
crowded by other plants. They need at 
least a half day’s sun and do best if 
the drainage is good. 
Under normal conditions, Iris do not 
require digging and separating more oft- 
en than every three to five years, depend- 
ing upon the amount of growth they have 
made, Say w bask 
See Iris for fall planting pages 4 and 5. 
ee. 
Last You’ or Years 
Every tulip bulb you buy at Gurney’s ia 
is the choice BLOOMING SIZE and will © 
not just bloom one season, but for years 
to come. 2 . 
You can leave your tulips right in the 
ground for several years without disturb- 
ing them and they will come back the 
next spring and give. you more bloom. nM 
Or, if you wish, you may dig your bulbs 
each summer (after the foliage has turn- 
ed brown and dried up) and store in a 
cool dry place until fall when you set _ 
them out again, Either way is ail right, _ 
