Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-26
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 insipid in themselves may be havar-
 ed in many ways. We have used
 them for many years when fruit was scarce and I wonder that they are not
 more often used for pickles and pre-
 serves. Mixed with small quantity
 of sliced orange the seeded pulp
 makes marmalade quite equal to
 some of the famous all orange
 brands.
 Both watermelons and musk mel ons are good fruit substitutes either fresh or floor putting up and cassabas
 arc almost equal to apples for the variety of good things that can be made from them,
 Seeds planted now will bear fruit
 for late fall use, even though they will not ripen till the crop from warm CT localities has caught the best mar ket. This year we need to think of home supplies and plant many things that would not be worth while from the market growers point of view.
 Do not forget the long, warm Oc- tober which we so frequently have after a cold spring when l tell you that it is still time to plant most of the things you like if you choose the kinds that mature in a short season. There is a group of garden fruit plants that belong to the tomato fam fly, the husk tomatoes, small, very hardy and very sweet fruits that are excellent in preserves-and the gar den hucklebcrry whichg rows into a bushy plant loaded with purple Der rIes. Try them thrJ year and they will help to make the scarcity of fruit less hard.
 It happens that fruit is going to be short crop all over }the United States. according to the reports of the best fruit men, and we may well prepare to use other things and 10 grow as much in our home gardens as possible.
 Perhaps you will think l am say ing too much about what can be done in the garden at this late sea son-but within the week several of my own neighbors have said to me | that they did not intend to plant this year-yet have deplor- ed the high price of food and won dered what we were going to do to keep our tables supplied. Now every | little garden plot, even though it be only afew feet square, is a help not i only to the owners but to the gen eral food situation and it is worth | while 10 plant even one bed of rad shes.
 We really arc facing a more serious question this year than we did dur mg the war when our men had to be [ fed in France for farmers and market l gardeners all over the United States are planting far smaller quan- titles of vegetables than usual on ac- count of labor shortage. The only thing that can be done is for every family that has bit of land to plant as much as possible for home use. Every dish of vegetables that we can put on the table from our own gar den beds is that much gained for health and lower living cost So even up to the middle of June it IS worth while to plant if just a little thought is used beforehand to select the shortest-season varieties of veg ,tables.
 Prepare the land well, soak all seeds at least a day; even small eed like radishes, and if possible shade the beds of smaller seeds for l few days with gunny sacks or brush ill the small plants get a good start then the garden is pretty sure 10 Ielp out the table all summer long.
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