New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
"OUT-HOOVERING" HOOVER
nx FLORA LEWIS MARBLE

PETITE is a mental attitude We
n lived in city once, and had quite
different dinners from those eaten
ssrs IN the country.
When we came to the country to live all the
10, around we evolved certain ideas of self
.,@c;ency from our neighbors. The SQUIRRELS
..rnot 90 to the green grocery in January, so
n October they put away nuts behind our
,;.chen wall. The farmer spends half of the
GUNNER putting away food for the cows and
horses to eat in the winter. The farmers wifo
cans fruit and dries corn. Example is power
r., thing Gradually the idea took hold. We
1ee;ded to find out how nearly the place could
keep Us.
We are family Of two and dog that eats
. msn's rations, because he is big dog. Wo
live in the mountains of Pennsylvania, where
dogs and folks get hungry three times day
with hunger bred of good air and exercise.
When we tell people that last year we spent
only s62.03 for food they think we are crazy.
The tragedy is that those people who have only
that amount to spend for food in a year are
crcumstanced so that they starve on it, while
those who are in a position where they could
carry out plans like ours are not So minded.
That we have out-Hoovered Hoover there is
10 doubt. l am not at all sure that he would
care to visit us. Our plans began, however.
long before food conservation became subiec.
for tea party conversation. In the old davs
guests might expect roast beef for dinner
Now they will not get it, for under the new
order meat becomes unimportant. Understand.
we did not lay down rule and say we will not
have this or that. We grew things to eat, and
they gradually took the places of other things
which we had been buying.
This brings back to the statement that
appetite is mental attitude. When you grow
something in your own garden you take per-
sonal interest in the career Of the product Of
your toll from the cradle to the grave, so to
speak, Thus it follows that the woman who
gets interested in growing vegetables wants
to cook them. did, and the idea of a cook has
faded from my memory.
In order to reduce even farm grocery ac-
count to S62 year one must mix brains with
the food to serve appetizing meals. Any one
can order dinner from the delicatessen, but it
takes thought to serve three hearty varied
meals day when you depend on milk and
vegetables for your main diet
FOUR ACRES AND A COW
We found that the exercise Of this mental
energy must begin with the advent of the seed
catalogue, in February. How large is the
family? How much of this and that vegetable
do you use during a year? How much space
must be given in your garden to grow that
amount Of each desired vegetable?
After some experience We have found that
we need to plant one-eighth of an acre to beans
Of various kinds for use and seed for the next
years planting, and another one-eighth of an
acre is sufficient for all the other vegetables
except green corn, potatoes and the asparagus
which is a permanent institution covering one
sixteenth Of acre. We plant quantities oe
sEeet corn in field for green food for the
COWS Incidentally, we have all the corn we
can eat, early and late, and to can and dry 1t
im winter. We raise from fifteen to twenty
hrs bushels Of potatoes on one-quarter of an
sre
Beside the garden is row of dwarf apple