Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-17
CAN What YOU
CAM ISADVICE

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 30.-At
this time when q hundred million AM
orleans are searching heart and mind
to determine in what way each can
contribute to the success of his coun-
try in the war, the National Geo
graphic Society makes public CON-
munieation from Frederick v. Coville.
the eminent authority on plant indus
try, in which the opportunities open
to the non-farmer for aiding in the
increase of food supplies are striking
ly set forth, Mr.. Coyille says:
One does not question that the Am
erican farmer vii: do his duty, or that
the widespread movement for city
gardening will contribute somewhat
to the extension OF our food surplus,
but there is also large class Of our
population favorably situated for food
production and well able tc take part
in it, whose contribution is only smah
fraction of what it might be made. l
refer to the man whose business or
dinarily is in town, but whose resi-
dence in the country gives him access
to an area of gr@und varying in size
from small garden to an ample farm,
used, however, only in snail part or
not at all for gardening or farming
purposes.
Summer Farmer
Usually such country dweilers have
the equipment for gardening or for
farming, but make such limited use
of 1t as suits their convenience for
recreation. s
The time is nov 81 hand whan every
nonfarmer who has unemployed farm
ing or gardening land, and every
summer resident in the country can
contribute periodically to the welfare
of his country and the progress Of
liberty by producing all the traits and
all the vegetables he consumed, and
in some cases also tie eggs and poul-
try that he needs. And / mean not
merely the fruits and vegeuables that
he uses in summer, but those he will
require in the following inter.
Our grandmothers knew row to pre-
serve fruit for winter use by drying
it and by canning it, but they did not
know how to can vegetables Modern
science has found out how to do this,
and now the girls in the department
Of domestic science in every agricrl-
tural college aud ever7 agricultural
high school in tho country are taught
how to take vegetables ut tie time
when their flaytT is mos delicious
and their texture most tsuder and put
them up in glass 'Ars for winter use.
scan What You Can"
Sunh Y1reserYad Vape.alles arc far
superior to those we ordinarily buy
in tin cans, for they receive a care
in selection aaI preparation that
commercial canneries seldom give
Every pound of food grown and used
IN this way is contribution OF Just
that amount to the greaS streams Of
supplies that we are passing on to the
British and the French Soldiers at the
front, for whatever each of us con-
sumes he must take from that stream
unless he produces it himself
In modern gardening the backache-
breaking hoe and weeder Of q genera
ton ago, have been replaced by these
wonderful little implemencs SGT on
wheels and pushed in. trent OF one by
two handles like a plow The heavy
blowing and planting of spring is still
a mans task, but these little hand cul.
tivators make the later care of a gar.
den a hapy task for women and half
grown children. 1t brings the bronzed
cheek Of summer and the elastic step
and clean mind OF the winter that
follows.
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