Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-05-19
AS TO THE HIGH
COST OF LIVING


We are solving the terrible problem il
our own way, and of course, our way
would not fit every family's needs nol
suit their tastes, but we find out bill,
decreasing instead of climbing sky.
ward, as they were until the beginning
cf this year. And this is how it hap.
pened:
We had put up the bacon of two hog,
last fall, and we made up our MINDS
that the meat had to do US until next
fall. So, the garden was called on to
furnish much more than its usual Dor.
lion of the living. As one kind of veg
table natures, another is planted to
take it 5 place and so we have a funny
looking garden
Where cabbage were cut we replaced
them with ruta begas which had been
started in seed row and transplanted
to the cabbage bed
As the ruta bagas were about half
grown we planted summer squash be-
tween them and are now eating ruta
bagas and squash, both from the same
bed
Beans were planted very early and W,
had a time covering them and caring
for them during those late freezes, but
we saved them and have been eating
beans three weeks ahead Of our earlies.
neighbors.
When carrots were getting large
enough to begin pulling, we plante'
Tasting IS prolific corn with old fashion
ed crease back beans between the rows
and now are picking lots of beans from
these and will 500, hsyear
I from tss Erorh,; @fhiiie tine sartols are no
1 quite all used upryet.
We have two large beds of shallots
In one Of them we set tomato plant
and in the other planted peas. The to
matoes have fruits nearly ripe on then
and we have gathered a nice lot OF
shallots.
Our peas-we have blackeye, lady-fn.
ger and adwarf brown, the name of
which we don't know-are beginning
to bloom.
We planted bed in sugar beets, but
the seed was not good and we failed to
get a stand, so replanted that bed with
bush lima beans. These were among
the things we had to put to bed in
Wrappers as one Of our neighbors
said, but we are now eating lima beans
fresh from the vines, while our pole
limas are already full of blooms and
young beans.
Two beds of mustard, which had fur.
nished green's all winter, were allowed
to seed, and we have just threshed over
three quarts of seed from them and
have worked over the beds, reseeding
one to mustard and setting the other in
tomatoes.
The kale furnished plenty of greens
during the winter and we set tomatoes
along the side of it. They are now in
bloom.
We SOW beets with thin sprinkling
of early redish among them and pull
the radishes out, leaving the beets to
grow.
We planted okrn between rows of
turnips. Now the turnips are all gone
and we have already gathered okro
twice. and we think that very good for
the 18th of May.
We have cucumbers and Mirlitons,
squash, beans, beets, carrots, lettuce,
radish, rutabaga, lima beans, cabbage,
sugar peas, parsley, Thyme and Windsor
beans to eat now and are beginning to
dig the new potatoes, so, with a little
help from the poultry we get along very
wei with very little meat and the
breakstuff bill is not near so big as it
was before our garden came on.
We are learning to get along without
some things that we used to think we
LAD to have, and, would like 10 hear
from other readers of the Progress Of
ways to reduce the cost Of living. L.V.