The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-08
SOME SUGGESTIONS
ABOUT HOME GARDENS
Timely Advice That If Needed Would
Tend to Reduce Living
Expense.

Ny article some weeks ago called
attention to the waste throughout the
country due to the lack of conserving
the vegetables grown by the farmers
in excess of home consumption. We
recommended the esta adjustment of
cooperative community canneries
The war and the certainty of a short
age In the wheat crop for 1917 makes
it imperative that every variety of
food product be increased over the
entire country; this applies to dwell
ers in cities and towns as we'll as to
farming communities Every yard
and vacant lot should be put TO use,
every family should grow some por-
ton OF the food IL consumes. 1t is
wonderful the, amount of vegeta bies
that can be produced on a small plot
OF ground. The most easily planted
and cared for are tomatoes, potatoes.
peas. snaps, lettuce. butter beans, cab
bage and, K the garden lot Is large
enough. even corn can be planted.
The cost OF putting out reasonably
good sized kitchen garden Is from
three TO five dollars. a few hours dur
ing the week, say thirty minutes in
the early morning Or after supper.
VIII bring surprising results.
II requires no great mathematician
to calculate what n great effect such
edi 'ttilT " al nave tii Pi AANS ENflNA any
1t Is a mistake to suppose that only
the prices Of vegetables would he af-
fected. because the great amount of
home raised fresh vegetables con-
sumed Will reduce the amount of
meats and other foods needed to keep
the physical body strong and ruNlst.
Now comes in the question of waste
and conservation. The squirrel. the
ant. the bee and many other animals
Il ts, Ill zt, Ia n
stores for the winter months. our
dwellers in cities have become accus-
toned To depending on others 10 lay
aside stores for thI winter and we
telephone the grocer to send AS can
Of this, that and the other. II is de-
livered and we don't bother about
where or by whom it was put up
we pay the price and no thought OF
tomorrow" Those who put their de
pendence in others for next winter,
and possibly several winters to come.
are going to pay high for the PRIV
ieRe. Many of those who are pruy
dent enough to have a kitchen garden
will have a surplus large or small.
OF such veseta bles n they raise. this
surplus should be canned. using glass
jars. This can be done easily and
by any hoUsekeeper, even though she
never put up a can OF anything before
IL ~ fitt utNtN~dtE ~ i3H>t tSib4iiiAS
day" Every day can be utilized and
half dozen different vegetables, her
ries or fruit can be preserved OF one
time and cooked in the same boiler
or kettle For example. II the gar
den produces any morning q surplus
of one fruit. one quart or more OF
peas. snaps. butter beans or tomatoes,
YOU can prepare them and preserve
all At one time, cooking In the same
boiler Any housewife who wilt call
at the Manufacturers Exhibit in the
Chamber of Commerce building will
be furnished tho recipe for this sim
pie process. No standing over hot
stove. no stirring a boiling kettle or
danger of burning. There is no ex-
cuse for any housekeeper not having
hundreds of jars of good things stored
away for next winter. Even those
who have not garden can put up
vegetables. berries and fruit when they
are cheap in the spring and summer
and laugh when prices soar next win
ter.
w X. BACHE.
Mgr. Manufacturers Exhibit.