. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. We make a specialty of High Class and Distinctive LABELS Let Us Help You Solve Your Selling Problem with SERVICE QUALITY PRICE Write to the most convenient office. The United States Printing & Lithograph Co. LOS ANGELES 430 S. Broadway SEATTLE 901 Hoge Building SAN FRANCISCO 112 Market Preparedness for Winter Food Supply Bulletin By Dr. Ernest W. D. Laufer, Agronomist American Steel and Wire Company GREAT and momentous times are for the first time since the Civil War again confronting the nation. The re- sources and savings of years of peace are again be


. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. We make a specialty of High Class and Distinctive LABELS Let Us Help You Solve Your Selling Problem with SERVICE QUALITY PRICE Write to the most convenient office. The United States Printing & Lithograph Co. LOS ANGELES 430 S. Broadway SEATTLE 901 Hoge Building SAN FRANCISCO 112 Market Preparedness for Winter Food Supply Bulletin By Dr. Ernest W. D. Laufer, Agronomist American Steel and Wire Company GREAT and momentous times are for the first time since the Civil War again confronting the nation. The re- sources and savings of years of peace are again being pledged to the prose- cution of war, more gigantic and more relentless than any war that has been fought in the history of mankind. Not all of us are chosen, however, to fight this great war with gun and saber, or by blood purchase, some must stay behind to pledge all that they possess in the effort to produce enough food to keep the valiant soldiers fed and their babes and wives at home from starva- tion. Our beautiful land of unlimiled resources must be made to show its prowess in agricultural production, so that none within her boundaries shall feel the pangs of hunger and the de- grading influence of i)overfy. Citizens and countrymen, it is your solemn duty to produce and conserve all of the food that it is possible to produce and conserve. No matter how small the garden or how tiny the num- ber of pounds saved from waste, con- certed elTort will produce a potential weapon against our most dangerous enemies, hunger and food riots. In choosing what things to grow in the garden, it should be borne in mind that the crops to be consumed at once, such as lettuce, radishes, melons, etc., are to occupy the juost limited space, while crops that can be dried, cooked, steam processed, or cellared should be grown as abundantly as possible. The vege- tables that are most readily preserved by cooking or steam processing are peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, spinach, Swiss chard, and cucum


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