Milford chronicle., 1940-04-26
HOME MAKERS
GARDEN
LOUISE r. wHITcoMB
Hsme Mahasemsni Specialist
PEARL MACDONALD
Nuirlilen Specialists
Delaware Agricultural Extension
Service


BY this time your garden Is prob.
ably well started. hope you are
q tisied that You have planted Q
pHiiicient amount so that your fam
lily can eat abundantly OF vegetables
this season and yet have enough sur
plus TO I'LL next years winter PAN
try, Did you try a new vegetable OF
two. or some new varieties Of fanlll-
lar ones? Many times we get into q
rut about our gardens and miss some
excellent opportunities to coax the
family appetite with something new.
Variety Is the spice OF life and this
applies even to garden plans.
Since we know, on good authority
that the family garden well planned
end cared for Is worth from $85 10
Sl25 in cash, no one can really af-
ford to ignore It's possibilities.
There ara so many other places 70
which that money can be put TO good
use if one has saved by not having
to buy vegetables. Then, too, with
a good garden one seems 20 live more
ahandantiy than when everything
has to be bought and the fresh vege-
tables are OF such excellent quality
that you have less difficulty In get
ting the family to eat and enjoy them.
Yes. that garden more than pays for
itself in both Increased money to
spend and health.
In Dslaware, we have 20 depend
upon canned and stored vegetables
for four TO six months Of the year
So, now 10 the time for every good
komemaker to get at those empty
Jars and begin 10 shine them Up. for
Il won't be long now until the early
vegetables Will be demanding your
attention.
Don't iail TO get new Jar rHbbers
and be sure that they are OF this
years stock. Rubber deteriOFates so
saat, and so much does depend upon
that Fubbs ring. II Is pity TO lose
hours of work by being careless
about this item. New rubbers when
stretched will go back to their Origi-
nal size. Test them out when buying
particularly II you are suspicious that
.licy may have been on store shelves
elnce last season. Aud, invest in a
EOod quality rubber. II pays TO get
the best Tighten the clampa on your
Jars and see that the lids or glass
covers nit on tightly. without rocking.
with screw tops. II may be wise to
invest IN new ones, particularly II
they have been dented.
Then prepare a nice gt0rage place
tor yBilr lars "a gHu nil them. "A.
place dry ana cool; a place easy to
get to; a place we'll organized so you
can tell what you have on hand. II
ynu have a dry basement series OF
narrow shelves around the room, o.
perhaps a cupboard built for that
purpose can he planned.
One of the incest storage Oup-
boards recently seen was one eata-
logged alphabetically. Il waH q simple
matter Indeed to put your hands
upon the jars that were wanted. An
ether woman. each year, puts on her
closet door two record blanks. One is
filled out as che puts the Jars on the
shelves 50 that she may know ex-
actly with what she Is starting the
season. Fhe other keeps the record
OF outgoing Jars and tells her how
the supply is holding out
Home-canned food, while Il will
last over several seasOnB II proper
ly prOcessed. is better in havoF II
used within the winter months, so
don't plan TO can an over abundant
supply and yet you must have ample
fol those emergencies that will crop
Up during the year.
Through the research OF those en-
gagged in the study OF foods and nu-
triton, We now know the food needs
OF the family members and can con-
seryatively cstimate what the win
ter needs of family will be. A few
Of our families are already living |
up to these recommendation given |
below, hut many more should sit |
down and mako a real family plan
! efore starring on their canning pro-
gram.
Health needs are:
1.-Two vegetables each day be-
sides po.atCes.
2-Tomatoes three or four times
week.
s-Lea(y vegetables three or four
times a week (as chard, kale. cab
baee. beet tops, turnip tops, broc-
coli. spinach. eress. dandelion, let
tuee. parsley. asparagus, Brussels
sprouts, etc.l because Of their spe-
cial richness OF the leafy greens In
minerals and vitamins.
f-Soms raw vegetables or fruit
every day
On the basis OF these needs. the
&c Glowing Is suggested, using 1f4 to
lIs pint TO a eerVlng which u equiv
alent TO ne TO 2j3 cup tstandard
cunl:
Leaiy Greens
faF eae pefsoa
's r. SSsISs ssSsIRs' .S,. S''s & z g S = p'
Tomatoes
lhEes servings a week. sqasls--2s 70 y pts; or
Sor months EQUALS % u 70 70 ats.
Other Vegetables
''.a. Gus. ETC. S. saual..-a, 70 ~ pts; or
sor months equals %
Frults
/ variety Of fruits such
as pears, plums.
'oF months equals iss
seryinez.
Multiply the above amounts for
he individual BY the number Of per-
IONS 81 your family and you have
he canning budget for your family.
n the Eamily has q considerable
mount OF company, or if there are
nose In the family who do hard
physical labor and reqHire larger
.erVlngs than suggested above, the (
can increase the amount Z