The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-20


canning vegetables until IL o.
clock" This home agent thus de-
scribed in a graphic manner ex-
actly what some good farm house
wives attempt to do. That they
ruin their lives in the process is
possibly not adequately consid-
cred.
Even so, rural people are making
their plans to have gardens and
fresh vegetables this season whe-
Their the city people do so or not.
The All club members have been
holding special garden meetings
and one of their most interesting
skits as given at these meetings
is, "Meet Mr.. Vegetable Ten
boys and ten girls take part in this
skit and each one takes the part
of a vegetable telling how it looks
and how it is grown and handled.
Wherever these skits have been
held, local interest in home gar
dens has been increased. The ru-
raj women have been as busy with
their gardening as have the boys
an. girls. The women have beer
studying seed boxes anil frame
gardens. Then they have given at
tention 20 the canning budget for
the Xxx. year. thai enough vege-
tables v;';!lc be plar; "a for filling
this budget. The women say they
thin budget. The women say they
will have ''busy" gardens this
season, meaning that one vegeta-
BILE after another will follow in the
same space as the year grows
older.
One Of the most unusual and in
teresting developer ents Of the
present season has been the in
telligent interest shown by farm
women in all of their garden prob
lens. They have been studying
soils as well as seeds and garden
methods. More tan ever before,
they are giving more attention
to greater variety of vegetables
and many Of them, have for the
first time, actually studied the art
of producing Seeding plants for
resettine into the opea ground
Practically every home demon
stration club in the state devoted
a part of its February meeting to
an open forum" discussion Of
the place Of vegetables in the diet
and how to have those needed
vegetables in the farm garden. The
women say the garden has a three
fold purpose: 1t provides a health
insurance policy for the family;
it is savings account for The
family; and, it will help to win
the war.
One Of the other fine develop
ments of the present season has
been the interest shown by the
farm family in berries and small
fruits. A group of All club mem
bers in Northampton county, for
instance, ordered 5000 strawberry
plants the other day to begin, as
they explained, new project OF
making the home garden of the
county provide the much needed
berries and small fruits. In Edge
combe county, club members re.
Gently ordered, comparatively, 157
peach trees, 80 apple trees, q
pear trees, 40 pecan trees, 4 plum
trees, "a cherry trees, apricots,
IL grape vines, IA fig bushes, 1000
strawberry plants, and BURBERRY
plants. More than 1900 strawberry
plants had been ordered previ-
ously. The idea is to make the
garden place where a real sup.
ply OF home grown food might be
secured. Fruits and berries have
been lacking, heretofore, in the
average farm garden and this new
attitude towards such a food sup.
ply will mean better health over
the state as whole, the nutrition
experts say.
And SO it looks now that even il
the townspeople do not bend their
backs in the hot sun of mid-sun.
mer to provide their own vegeta.
bles, the rural people will grow
the difference. Whether these
Vegetables. get to town remains t.
be gaan.ss~,-e..%. -