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From ALL sicns, the 1944 garden 
crop is scheduled for a good bit of 
thought and planning before it ac- 
tually gets ‘under way. Even in avet- 
age times, the home vegetable garden 
is of economic value — a value that 
is increased many times over with 
the nation at war and essential foods 
none too plentiful for civilian use. 
Last year’s colossal production of 
home fruits and vegetables demon- 
strated how well the families of the 
nation can take care of their own 
food supply when the need arises. 
With more demands than ever today 
on our American “‘horn of plenty’’, 
that need is still more urgent, and 
home gardens will again rank fore- 
most in the war jobs of the Home 
Front. 
We cannot foresee in much detail 
what the civilian food supply picture 
Mh) Vegetable combinations provide nutritious, body-building food — help to win the 
war— and save plenty of points, too. The young woman at the right gives the camera 
a preview of some of 1943 vegetable harvest. She'll be back with a 1944 garden! 

will look like a few months hence. It 
can grow much wotse, with an ever- 
increasing demand for food destined 
overseas. It can grow much wotse, 
that is, unless home vegetable gar- 
dens live up to the reputation they 
made for themselves last year — and 
surpass it. 
The most essential and basic ele- 
ment, that of producing a creditable 
quantity of homegrown fruits and 
vegetables, seems fairly well assured 
for 1944. Folks will tend to increase 
rather than decrease the size of their 
gardens, in the light of present-day 
food shortages. Whether they will 
increase the quality of the vegetables 
they grow is still a question — the 
answer depending on how far people 
will go in sacrificing the vegetables 
they may prefer for those richest in 
the health-promoting nutrients. 
Edited by 
Ida _ Fisher 



Our country faces a real need for the 
most efficient food production and 
preservation possible with its present 
shortage of man power, transporta- 
tion, and essential materials. In lands 
across the sea, the things one likes to 
eat no longer seem very important — 
nutrient values receive first considera- 
tion. In the face of stark starvation, 
such lesser considerations as taste 
preferences go by the board, the 
underlying essentials stepping out 
into their place. For America, al- 
though the need is not quite so dras- 
tic, it is nevertheless much more 
pressing than it used to be when wide 
varieties in kind and types of foods 
were easily available. That is why 
our home gardens must be tuned to 
the times this year — we must make 
sure that our families gain the great- 
est possible nourishment from the 
gardenstuffs we grow ourselves. 
The Big-Six rates first place on our 
