Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
STORE YOUR WINTER VEGETABLES NOW-By Frederic Haskn

vvASHINGTON d. c., Sept. 20.-The home
wv vegetable gardener, who has planned his
W planting WELL is about to reap the
most important fruits of his labor-a crop of late
vegetables to store for winter Even for the
householder who has no garden, the storage OF
vegetables is a measure of great economy at this
time of the year when they are cheap.
Beets, late cabbage. carrots. celery, onions,
parsnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, satisfy, and
turnips will all keep through the winter if proper
ly stored, will beans and peas when they have
been dried
garden of half acre will supply the aver
age family with most of its winter vegetables, In
addition to all that be eaten fresh during the
summer And most of these vegetables may now
be obtained in the markets or from farmers or
market gardeners at very moderate price. This
is the season of abundanoe-the traditional time
for the laying by of winter food The wild creatures
are busy at it, from ants and bees to squirrels
woodchucks. So those forward-looking and
independent people who live in the country They
drying beans and peas, killing hogs and max
ing hams. putting up preserves and pickles. laying
by apples and potatoes, beets and turnips in cellar
and attic. Food trusts and food dictators have no
terrors for them. Even in Germany the farmer
class has remained well-fed because of its provi-
dent habits
Of course the city dweer has no such oppor-
tunites as the farmer and suburbanite for putting
away foods. But the striking fact is that he
neglects what opportunities he has. The average
urban home contains no storage room but small
pantry and an ice box while in many cottage and
amount of food kept hand is usually very small,
and that small amount is in many cases staples,
which may be bought we'll at one time as an
other. The tyical urban American, in the words
of DR.. Corbett, of the department of agriculture.
Lives in a paper bag Each day he buys in mar
ket what he that day eats. At present he has
plenty of fresh vegetables because he can get them
cheap. In January, however he will stint his diet
of vegetables to the detriment of his health and
will nav fearful price for what he gets. He
places himself absolutely at the mercy Of the re-
taller and then wonders why the cost of living is
high.
At this time of the year you buy enough
vegetables for meal for ten or fifteen cents. You
can also buy enough vegetables for your Christmas
dinner now for fifteen cents and keep them until
December. But consider what vegetables will cost
you at that time. You will either buy canned
goods, paying enormous price for metal and
for the storage and shipment of water, else
you will buy vegetables raised under glass in the
far south and shipped hundreds of miles In either
case enough vegetables to give your family the
vitamines and other food elements that they
get from this source will cost you three four
times what the same materials selling for now.
For this reason the storage of vegetables for
winter use is very real economy, and it is also
very worth while health measure Furthermore, it
is in no sense unpatriotic to be confused with
boarding. On the contrary it is means of adding
to the nations total food supply.
The outburst of preachments of economy which
followed the entrance of the United States into the