The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-19
INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION
is NATIONS GREATEST
NEED

Unmistakable signs that he is
now girding himself for final
sprint at the expense of the pub!ic's
pocketbook, are now being made by
OLD MAN HIGH COST OF LIV-
ING. This however should not be
taken to indicate that there has
been anything that resembled a
pause in the gentleman's progress,
but any housewife knows, that with
in the past week, staple articles of
food have made advances of so per
cent and even more. Authorities
now say, that further advances, es-
pecially in can goods is the forecast,
which will be extended all along the
line in a few days. The housewife
learns new price of staple article
every time she goes to the Tele-
phone. The bread man has found
it necessary to reduce the size of
bread, in fact, it was indicated to-
10 ssAeoI auao usi 7ql 4eql Hep
bread will hardly top the size of
the former five cent loaves. Wheat
scars, May wheat quoted in Chicago
today at 1924 per bushel, placing
flour around the $1,000 to 1900
price per barrel. Sugar is getting
scarcer every day. Now retailing
for ten cent per pound. Potatoes
and onions are to be sold in the
near future by carat weight instead
of pounds, (this was intimated in a
humorous vein by a dealer.) Presi-
dent Wilson in his appeal to the
public, published this week asking
for united people, each individual
doing his best to serve, has this to
say to the housewives of the land:
"Let US suggest that everyone
who creates or cu..tivates garden
helps, and helps greatly, to solve
the problem of feeding the nations,
and every housewife who practices
strict economy puts herself in the
ranks of those who serve the nation.
This is the time for America to cor
rect her objectionable fault of
wastefulness and extravaganza"
There is an impression in some
quarters that it is now too late to
plant garden, according to comp
tent agricultural authorities, the
following is reproduced from the
Galveston News:
Mr.. Guess advice to the prospec-
tive gardener is to do a little think
ing before planting. The first thing
to do after the soil is prepared is to
determine what a majority of the
family likes-what vegetable will be
eaten in the greatest quantity by a
family.
"There's no use raising something
tha nobody wants to eat; the gar
dener should know how much of
each variety to plant" said Mr..
Gruss. "There are any number of
that may be planted with
profit at this season of the year. I
find that one of she greatest causes
Of failure in gardening in Galveston
is the fact that the novice is prone |
to plant the seed too deep.
with the exception of peas and
beans, which will come up under
any ordinary conditions no matter
how deep they are placed, seed
should not be covered more than,
,ay, from half an inch to an inch
md half in depth. It is good
dea to cover the beds with old sacks
n something of the kind until the
shoot is seen bursting through the
'oil. The cover should then be re-
moved.
"Of course the gardener should
zee to it that the soil has sufficient
moisture to terminate the seed
When they are planted.
Mr.. Gruss offered the following
ist Of vegetables for planting at
his season Of the year: Pole beans,
utter beans (both pole and bush),
eggplant, sweet pepper,
quash, leaf lettuce, blackeyed peas,
cas-, spinach, shallots lin bunches),
eets, carrots and cucumbers. He
that cucumbers planted
4 barrel Of rich soil offers a
lethod by which the vines may be
rown without interfering with the
Their vegetables in the garden. The
ariel may be move to any place
bout the premises desired. These
re mentioned for the benefit Of
hose who have only small garden.
1 case one has a large plot of
round, sweet potatoes will prove
ne of the most profitable paintings
any vegetable.