The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-24
COMMITTEE ON FOOD SUPPLY URGES PLANTING OF BEANS
 CAN AND PLANT CARROTS
F(By- Edith s. Pettee, Home Gardens | Department, Committee of
 Food Supply)

FCBy, Edith S. Pettee, Home Gardens
 Department, Committee of
 Food Supply.) | If Germany gains the Pacific all is Host. We are told that we must lead An expedition into Russia to save the world for democracy. But have we kthe food? The State authorities at SStorrs say that less planting will be done on the farms this year. Careful observers in the cities know that there has been noticeable decline in nome lRarden plots as we'll as private gar ldeps. The whole world is hungry. iGut planting is stalled. "Let Japan do it." you have been saying. But Ja- pan speaking for herself says she is too short on rice. And if Japan had the food-picture the German enter ing our country on the Pacific coast and approaching the Mississippi; bus mess stalled, distribution stalled, and the civilized world gently murmuring Spain will save them" An imper- feet parallel, but it will serve.
 We have been missing the big movement of the war in our pre-oc- cupation over the little diversion ere ated at our front gate. Will U- boats off New York so distract us that we will forget our part in the mighty battle? The planting, season has been matchless in memory or rec ord. Spinach, peas, and strawberries have been canned from the gardens that were alert, and potatoes are be- ginning to blossom. But alas so few of them It is too late for profitable planting of potatoes. Forever we are too late! We cannot win this war till this habit is conquered. Are we going to be too late for saving Russia? We are unless we can show the necessary food. Already we are asking if our two years too late in France will cost us twenty. They may if we cannot double our food ex- ports
 In Connecticut, lovely for it's fer tile valleys, it's fruited hillsides, it's humming factories, moving the war with night and day shifts, our prob lem Is a paradox peculiarly our own. Our potato fields yield tobacco; our corn leaves the state for seed; yet our munitions are defending more than rone nation. The workers in these plants must be kept at a high stand ard of efficiency. That means well balanced rations. But where is the starch coming from this year? Your garden has become the chief hope of the nation. So dependent is the country upon the small garden that in some states garden conscription has been proposed. Our allies need your garden. Democracy cannot survive without it. That means that you must get down to the ground today and see how much more you can xu6 in eyixY ,l,;1 that the news of the impending Rus sian expedition broke while planting was still possible. We must all hur- ny with full speed ahead to make that little spot of ground that was our bit last year, produce a more substantial bit for this year.
 We are to run short on starches, proteids, and fats. Without the vita- mines, the little known food value found in butter fat and in green leaves, we cannot live. The garden will produce all of these, with some to can, and by the cold pack process we may can them all, including the vitamines, which however, deteriorate with long keeping.
 Plant beans. Plant all the beans you can. They are rich in both pro- tein and starch. Plant carrots where you used to grow flowers, and where you never before grew anything. Can carrots. Can them alone, and can them with peppers, celery, an onion, and tomatoes for liquid, to serve with soups or stews all winter. Can beans and dry them. Ripen the last of them, not the first of the crop, lest you get no more. Plant beets and can them young, tops and all, for the vitamines which will make the chil- dren grow. Plant corn, the quick growing varieties, up to the middle ot July Dry this, or can it. For can ming it must be picked at it's prime before it passes into the dough stage It may be blanched, cut from the col and sun drid, finished off in a dryins oven, and store in dry boxes or jars But these will not supply you witt much starch.
 There remains but one way to ge this now, since potato planting i. risky as late as this. Find if yol can some seed of yellow field corn the kind the farmers raise. Ask you1 seedsman, your county agent, or the nearest farmer for enough to plan a few rows, or even a few hills, anC convert this into hulled corn by tn, following method.
 After thorough ripening in the fall and at any time during the winter the corn may be stripped from tn, ear and boiled for two hours in a so lution of water and common bakin; soda, one flat tablespoonful of soda tt pint of water should do it, but if i fails, add more soda, or extend tn, boiling. The toughness of the hull variea The huils should wash of