mK leat: ; ‘ , ' 7 ut ry > -™ , 5 5, e ey a i y 4 ' Ls i i i ’ , 3 ’ Bi a y Jorn SB 103 -N35 Copy 1 F ood Must Follow the F lag _ War Garden Uncle Sam came across with a grin, And he reckoned: ‘‘I’m proud of my kin; With the country all fat With fine gardens like that Your old Uncle is certain to win.”’ 1918 THE NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. * Copyright, 1918, by the National War Garden Commission VITAL VALUE OF THE WAR-GARDE % HIS publication treats of the lighter side of the war garden movement and the canning and drying campaign. Fortunately a national sense of humor makes it possible for the cartoonist and the humorist to weave their gentle laughter into the fabric of food emergency. ‘That they have winged their shafts at the war gardener and the home canner serves only to emphasize the vital value of these activities. The producing season of 1918 has seen tremendous growth in war garden- ing and home conservation. These activities were inaugurated on a na- tional scale in 1917. _ At that time they were regarded as emergency measures made necessary by America’s entry into the world war as an active bellig- erent. With the prolongation of the conflict their value has been greatly increased. From a land of plenty the United States has become a land with a war-time food problem akin to that with which Europe has been face to face for four years. Each day of the war’s continuance will render this problem more acute. The American war gar- den has already proved its worth in helping to solve this problem. As the war goes on this will increase. Among American war agencies the National War Garden Commission has occupied unique position. _ Established as a patriotic contribution on the part of a few public spirited men, the Commission has become a recognized institution. This recognition has been accorded by the United States Govern- ment through various departments and branches and by foreign nations. It has brought to the Commission the co- operation of Federal, State, County, and City governments and of every type of local agency. One of the leading achievements of the Commission during 1918 has been ~to demonstrate the possibility of food production by the army at the camps and cantonments throughout America. The demonstration was made at Camp Dix, New Jersey. At the request of the War Department the Commission Sea provided seed, farming equipment. and fertilizers for planting a war garden of between three and four hundred acres at the camp. This garden has been worked by a regularly - organized farm company of a strength — of from 165 to 225 men. The results — in simplifying the food problem of the — Army are of such importance as to justify the belief that next year will see — camp war gardening on a national scale. — Another important phase of the work of the Commission has been coopera- tion with the United States Bureau of Education in stimulating war garden-— ing among the nation’s school children. — Through international relationships, — the Commission has done much to cement the friendship between America — and other countries of the world. ‘ This is especially true of the Allied nations. In England, France, Bel- gium and other countries across the Atlantic, in Canada, in Australia and — in Cuba and the Philippines, close affiliation has been welcomed by government authorities and by vari-_ ous agencies concerned with the food question. One example of interna-— tional cooperation is that conducted — throughout Canada by the Canada ~ Food Board in conjunction with this” Commission. South America has also manifested deep interest. In the Unite! States the Com- mission’s preliminary’ survey of war gardening in 1918 indicates an in- crease of more than 40 per cent over the number of gardens planted in 1917. The figures show approximately ~ five million gardens with a probable value of half a billion dollars. ' For this achievement too much credit cannot be given to the periodical and newspaper press of America and — other countries. The Commission is deeply sensible of the cordial and un- wavering help given by the newspapers and magazines. Without this help the work could not have been done. To the cartoonist, humorist and others whose material is herein. re- produced, the Commission makes — erateful acknowledgment. © 014528369 }Q)Q cat hie 2 | ‘ 1 Garden Wisdom ANDOM extracts from the writings of Arthur (Bugs) ‘Baer, of the New York World: “All over our former Republican States war gardens are being launched, with a patriotic waving of elbows and a star-spangled outburst of seeds. Launching a war garden is a yery intricate matinee. When they launch a war vessel the skids are put under the vessel. But when they launch a war garden the skids are placed under the gardener. “A war garden is a gob of land situated as close to the ground as possible. The idea is to barrage it with a flock of seed shrapnel which will eventually bloom and produce something besides blisters on the hands and pains in the suspenders from bending over. A seed is a young berry which is buried in the ground and patted in the face with a spade. The interment is private, only a few j wlll friends of the family being pres- ent, in addition to about six million sparrows and all the neigh- bors’ chickens. A garden looks very prosperous in the catalogue. No sooner are the seeds firmly established in the turf than the sparrows start in to kidnap ’em. It isn’t much of ariot. One spar- row can defeat its weight in seeds the best day you ever saw. And a good two-clawed chicken can turn a war garden over on its shoulder blades with one claw tied behind its ears. ‘“After a few skirmishes with the neighbors’ chickens your gar- den wears a worried look like a suburbanite who is always two jumps behind his train and one jump ahead of the rent. It is emptier than a cruller with the rim gone. It won’t even support anecho. ‘he nap is all worn off.”’ JACK THE GIANT KILLER PLASCHKE in Lowisville Times. 6 ta aS a On were repulsed with heavy losses. All is quiet along Euclid Avenue = ae _ When the wife votes in favor of potatoes and the husband insists that onions are preferable, the little plot of ground at the back of the house verily becomes a war garden. Said the grocer to Mrs. McPhee: “Your dollars mean nothing to me, You can’t trade in my shop. Can your war garden crop And then’ you can feed yourself free.” NEWS FROM THE FRONT The enemy charged in great force all along the East Cleveland and Lakewood sectors. ‘The Donaney in Cleveland Plain Dealer. _ There’s a man up in Brooklyn, N. Y. Who thinks it his duty to try The home garden stunt In both backyard and front : So his folks will have rhubarb for pic. ~ ~ War Garden Sass , f eine T ate some freedom peas, in my war garden grown; I often gather greens like these, and boil them with a bone; and though the peas were small in size, in taste like castor oil, I viewed them with admiring eyes, the product of my toil. With pride the loyal voter eats his home-grown garden sass, his luscious Patrick Henry beets, and Sweet Boon -sparrow-grass; his taters may be small as beads, his lettuce coarse and tough, but joy- ously he on them feeds and cannot get enough. J plant my beans of Bunker Hill and till them with my sword, and say, “Vl help can Kaiser Bill, the frugal way I board. I’ve plowed up the begonia bed, the lily and the rose, and that I may be cheaply fed I ply my rakes and hoes.” How good it makes a fellow feel, to do his little trick, when he’s too old to take his steel and ~- earve a Teuton hick! He feels his jaded spirits rise, he knows he’s safe and sane; he views his garden plot and’ eries, “‘I have not lived in vain!”? There are so many ways to aid that no one need despond; the coin I’ve saved with hoe and spade will buy another bond. I help to balk the submarines, some Teuton scheme I smash, by raising Nation’s Bulwarks beans and Hagle succotash. ms —W att Mason. FOLLOW THE PIED PIPER Rules for the Gardener af tools for gardening, you require a wheel hoe with cultivator, rake, plow, side hoe, seed dropper and all the wrinkles, about $14.35; miscellaneous hand _ hoes, rakes, cultivators, pushers, pullers, per- suaders and grabber, $27.56. Total, about Join the United States School Garden Army. CLEVER POSTER USED BY THE UNITED STATES SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY A War-like Crop It was inevitable that Cartoonist Herri- man should initiate his favorite creations, ‘Baron Bean and Grimes, into the mysteries of the war garden. Grimes is pictured as puzzled over a strange series of popping ‘sounds from the Baron’s back yard. “1 wonder what it is,’ he exclaims. “It’s pop-corn, you skwint, if you want to know,”’ replies the Baron. _ “Why don’t you plant something more ypeaceful?” asks Grimes. | “This is a war garden, Ole Dear,” is the Baron’s retort, as he playfully hammers Grimes over the head with a rake. $41.91. These tools are not to use on your own garden, but to lend to your neighbors. You do your own work with tools borrowed from one neighbor while another neighhor is using the ones you bought. Garden tools are like a cireulat- ing library, only very few of the things come back. You must also have a large supply of monkey wrenches, Stilson wrenches, hammers, saws, screw-drivers, ete., because the neighbors who borrow your garden tools will naturally hesitate to ask you to come over and fix ’em when they get out of whack, but will be glad to borrow the tools to fix ’em with. So you just gotta have plenty of implements and tools. EE AT THE BEND OF ——_ THE CREEK JUST BELOW i \ iN , | a THE LURE CLUBB in Rochester Herald. Worms Will Win the War One industrious war gardener is pictured as working busily and reflecting on the virtue of raising his own food supply. “Tf everybody grew their own vege- tables and ate less meat,” he soliloquized, “we'd put old Bill on the bum in a hurry. This is tough work but I’ll stick to it if it kills me. I’m with Hoover on this.” At this point a fine assortment of earth worms was unearthed. The digger’s re- flections immediately shifted to a shady stream and the final scene shows him happily fishing. “Oh, well,’ he reflects to soothe his con- science, ‘‘ vegetables or fish; it’s all the same to Mr. Hoover.” If New Yorkers are to cultivate 12,000 farm-gardens this summer, as Mr. Hoover asks, they will have to arrange a schedule by which their roof gardening won’t inter- fere with their war-gardening. 6 Gathering the Crop Cpe gardener qu relled with his w over the first fruit of the’ family garden. | He claimed the growth was one of his succotash. She insisted it was one of her sweet pickles. While they quarrelled their charm- ing niece dug it up. > ‘*Oh, dear,’’ she com- plained. ‘‘Must I do it — all? Why don’t you get busy and take out a weed when you see it?” cursion in war garden- ing, cartoonist C. A. Voight exploited Petey space which he had spad. 4 | fatigue. As he finished © the spading his wife ap- peared on the scene. She was filled with dismay at what she found. 9 “Oh, Petey, dear, what have you” done?” she flung at him. ‘“You’ve dug up the plot where I had my beans planted.” Poor Petey fainted. Copyright, Life Pub. Co. Pup: I'll just examine these seeds boss planted yesterday. He’ll be glad to se me so interested. aie Courtesy of Life. — is ba es “es The Days of Real Sport i AR gardening is just as good sport as golf or shooting,’’ de- elares an enthusiast. ‘U-m, well, it requires as much skill and persisten- ey to bag a patch of po- tatoes as to bag a dozen quail, and looking for the - pepper plants in the weeds would be as good sport as looking for lost golf balls if caddies were employed to help. _GET BUSY! Watchful Waiting “This war garden busi- ness is a frost,’’ said the man in the street car. ‘‘I planted my garden two years ago and nothing came up but weeds. Last year I waited to see what would happen, but weeds were the only crop this time, too. I am going to wait just one more season, and then if the stuff don’t come up I am going to dig up the whole thing.” \ Since Congress lengthened out the day, Let’s start in right and stay right. It’s just the thing for garden work— This extra hour of daylight. I 4 ——— To. epcnucks ARE pRo—- GERMANS CASSEL in San Francisco Bulletin. Preliminary Practice If you wish to do a little preparatory Red Cross work, why not hold very gently the blistered hand of your favorite war- gardener? A Popular Tale ‘““What are you reading?” ‘‘A tale of buried treasure.” ‘“Wasting your time on fiction?’’ ‘“No. This is expert advice on how to plant potatoes.” WATER YOUR GARDEN CARE FULLY “Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden fare?’’ “Tt’s growing well in this dry spell; I water it with care." UNCLE BIFF SAYS Doc Tweezer an’ Andy Jimpson got into a war garden fight. Doe said green peas would win the war, and Andy said *twant’ so; string beans would do it. DONAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Gardener’s Plaint By ‘‘ToucHsTonE”’ J WAN'T to lie supine upon the grass With the blue vault of heaven arching over. To watch the fleecy cloudlets as they pass, To hear the murmurous bees among the clover. Such were, indeed, a fitting interlude ’Twixt the recurring frenzies of the poet. Alas! if man to-day hath need of food He has to up and grow it. Therefore, behold me with my fork and hoe At work upon my small but neat allot- ment, Farthing the spud—a task for which I know That I was most emphatically not meant, Alack! for those two ancestors of mine, The temptress Eve, the weak and greedy Adam Who needs must go and overstep the line, Confound you, sir and madam! But that was in the very distant past, The active villain of the piece comes later, Fit for the part in which he has been cast. Whose sins, I trow, are infinitely greater, Sinee he is obviously most to blame To coneentrate on him were surely — wiser, And while I toil I fervently exclaim, — “Oh! you-know-what the Kaiser!” ~~ —From The London Daily Mai Lasting Well “T am surprised to see you have sue quantity of preserves left over from last— year.” é Se “Nobody could get the lids plained the housewife briefly. ex ES off,”’ er “The time has come,” the ridsdale said, ‘“‘To think of garden scenes, ; Of earrots, beets and artichokes, Of squash and lima beans; _ Of why the canner’s boiling hot And how to dry your greens.” _For the war gardeners the Governme should provide the order of the bliste paln. ai Garden hint: In time of war prepar peace. MOTHER HUBBARD ©LO MOTHER HUBBARD WILE HAVE A NEW CUPBOAR SHE'LL HAVE ALL SHELL NEED | HER HOUSEHOLD TO NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COM WASHINGTON, 8.C \ One Result of the Heat — HE best way to bang the conservation 4 Holstein in the optic is to unsheath our elbows and publish a war garden, says Arthur (Bugs) Baer, the inimitable honor ist of the New York World. And while ut are Chaperoning the nimble onion, the rable lima bean and the joyful tomato, | wife should be chauffeuring a war pre- ‘serving laboratory. Beat the raise: in i by raising the beet. Preserve the nion by preserving the onion. your garden and on the Kaiser’s progress the same time. Every corn you raise another corn in the imperial boot. By lding the lima bean you can make the iser the sucker in succotash. seabbard until the Junkers are in the junk. While the navy is canning the U-boats, you ean the navy bean. ; The National War Garden Commish in Washington will tell you all you want to m UWEIER PLANTED A CAN AND ERXPEED Canned TOMATO * LIKE Stow 0/0 ———— _ PA BO i aa Copyrizht, 1918, by International News Service ALL MARRIED MEN KNOW IT, Little Bopeep is feeding her sheep On the tops of the greens she has grown. They eat cauliflower just six times an hour; They’re the fattest young sheep ever known. fesse y zi] a MEAL aS best |e | ELE y Seumeaa; CTTT TPP Since I’m growing my food on the spot I can knock H. C. L. off the lot, Without raising a hand a With this stuff IT have canned, And the people who can not cannot. ONT YoU Know A TATRAW BERRY 16 “ c a Fite aie CA Guts a ee GOTTA a sh LEReNn Ki! eal é is om | From A (IIA 7, yl) ie WAR. Garden - ; . USED T WONDER WHY FADHERD ey CALLED DHEA ; Ie WAR. GaedENS - (TT A ‘ie, PLACE TD START A nit tame wire YOUR, peal i i TOO : Tap in New York Journal. = A young lady of Wilmington, Del., ig Attempted to put up some jell. a When. it turned into mush F She refused to say ‘‘Tush!” But insisted: ‘I’m doing quite well.” — ‘ ox ae <4 (ne TOONERVILLE TROLLEY THAT MEETS ALL THE TRAINS = By FONTAINE FOX. rf EP YouRE IN SECH A HURRY WHY DONCHA GIT OFF AND HELP, ME Fibb THIS‘ PAN O° BEANS, - rr THE SKIPPERS f WAR GARDENS ALONG THE Se get RIGHT OF WAY HAVING BEGUM ue ‘To PRODUCE THERE 1S ONE MORE CAUSE FOR DELAY ADDER TO THE REGULAR 4 LIST. : alae Copyright, 1918, Wheeler Syndicate, ree ; Fox in Washington Times. Brer Tate and garden \wass — —— . Ai ve SS SUL s)REL AMMUNITION : “DOESN'T COM; * FROM THE POWDERS FACTORIES EI POIATOES FicaT|) They Save Wheat. | When you eat Potatoes aye Sa dont TgiS aE ety YW (usial! iy Copyr. Life Pub. Co. Reprinted from Life of May 23, 1o18. _ THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION MOBILIZES THE CARTOONIST The pressure was min too much and _ the Hl Wil guest was foreed to Hl | I forego his day of rest =,=| and weed the garden. ‘*T hope John didn’t think I was hinting,” the hostess said to Mrs. John, as they left him at work. “Such a_ thought would never enter his mind,’’ was the re- assuring reply of the devoted wife. li iL i ty ‘‘Are you going to have a garden this year?” ‘““No,”’ replied Mr., Growcher. ‘‘It isn’t ~ my turn to make a Gaavnent H. T. Webster. ae Res z garden. I’m going to AMERICAN SAPPERS WAITING FOR THE WORD keep chickens this _ TO DIG IN year and let my Rn Depnea' ae neighbor make the » WEBSTER in Cincinnati Times-Star. garden.” é The Day or Rest Inmates of Pennsylvania’s insane asy- lums are working in war gardens to aid in the fight against the Hun. ‘“‘Crazy like a fox,” takes on a new meaning. : (ps= of the pathetic victims of other peoples’ war garden enthusiasm was Mr. John, the hero of Maurice Ketten’s ‘“ Day of Rest” cartoons. Invited to : spend a week-end with friends, John was Now is the time to place the spade be- delighted with the opportunity to rest. hind the flag. “This is my garden, Mr. John,”’ said his host- ess proudly, showing him over her grounds. “‘It’s full of weeds.” “Too bad,’’ said the guest, but without en- thusiasm. ‘‘Tt’s a shame to lose my vegetables,’’ persist- ed the hostess, “‘but I ean’t find anybody to work.”’ “Too bad,” repeated John, feeling what was coming. “It’s a erime to let good food go to waste now,’ ventured Mrs. John, looking at her {= husband, coaxingly. We, eed ‘Don’t you hate to Ye see all those vegetables a being spoiled by weeds, i Mr. John?” the hostess LEADING HIM ON persisted. BERRYMAN in Washingion Star. oe | e Cannergrams ET down to cases— cases of home-can- ned products. A row of filled preserv- ing-jars is a good defense against winter. Dterilized, sealed, saved—the three ‘“S’s” of home canning. S. O. S.—Sterilize on stove—another way of saying ‘‘boil those jars of fruits and vegetables so they will keep per- fectly.”’ The useful: life of a preserving-jar—filled in summer, ready by fall, emptied in winter — hungry to save more food next spring and summer. A wooden false bot- tom in a home-canning outfit is a raft that keeps lots of perishable food from being lost. An all-round good thing for the nation—a rubber ring on a preserv- ing-jar. ; A fourth-floor apart- ment is a fine place to produce a canned garden. f | | | stb an ee Leta tet ery oan eee WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON SYKES in Philadelphia Evening Ledger. UNCLE SAM’S SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY BERRYMAN in Washington Star. 19 Persons of every level should ean, the family in the top flat as well as the dweller in the bunga- low. You don’t need even a foot of earth to raise a eanned garden—in fact, the less dirt the better in home canning. The colors of those jars of canned and pre- served products put a service emblem in youry kitchen. Brighten the corner in that kitchen closet— with canned beans, fruits, berries. Pantry vatriotism— preserving perishable products in periods of plenty to provision people when production has passed, “Snoogles” ANT YoU 70 SCE! ESPECIALLY = _GOT POLES UP AND tee ER THING a—~ —~% The Little War Garden (With apologies to the author of The Little Dutch Garden). I passed by a garden, a little war garden, Where all sorts of Hoover things grew, Big ripe, red tomatoes and bugless potatoes, And turnips and onions a few. I saw in that garden, that little war garden, : Every last kid on our street. Red-headed Johnny and Tommy, And Jimmy and Tony and Pete. curly-haired There grew in that garden, that little war garden, TIME TO DIG IN DONAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. | By Hungerford HUNGERFORD in Harrisburg Telegraph. — Every vegetable known in the land, And the Red, White and Blue, that was well planted, too, In each heart of that tired little band. My heart’s in that garden, that little wai garden, ; It tumbled right in when they said. “Say, mister, we’ll ’sprise yer; we’ll sure lick the Kaiser. If every kid hoes ’till he’s dead.”’ 4 AG f “SPRAYING BUCS,KSND SJR,"SHE Sata, — Copyright, 1918, Life Pub. Co. i. DON’T TRY TO FLIRT WITH A FARMERETTE Reprinted from Life of August 22, 1918. NBER THE HAISER : 1 ONE REASON FOR CANNIN G _ THE CANNERS AS SEEN BY £ETNO EMPTY JAR ESCAPE. STAR GAZING Be ») IMR wo, pr WHILE yo UY Ring THE PARADERS A COMMISSION CARTOONIST 21 OUR JANUARY GARDENING Of course we liked our garden when we viewed the lettuce beds, ‘ And picked the tender ears of corn, and counted cabbage heads! It took a lot of work to plant and weed and hoe and prune, ' But then, we liked our garden! of art in June! But now that winter blusters and all prices soar and soar And We can hear the H.C. L. a-scratching at the oor, And mother opens home canned corn or peas or beets or greens! Takes all year to show folks what a garden really means! MARTHA HART in Des Moines Tribune "Twas a thing Say! “The time has come,”’ the burbank said, “To work a fruitful graft. We'll cross the soil with garden seed And rake it fore and aft; And then we’ll have so much to eat We'll look like wilyumtaft.” SKETCHES FROM LIFE By Temple eS B BB. oy a 8 eis BAIN gT (> nA GE ee , WAN “GOT ALL MY SEED BACK ANYWAY ” TEMPLE in Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cree “The time has come,’’ Jack Pershing said, “For you to back your sons. You've got to feed ‘em mighty well, So they can man the guns. Backed up by your home cannin’ aid We'll cannonade the Huns.”’ IF F you can waste your food while those about you : Are saving theirs with all their might and main; If you think we can win this war without you, Or think it’s just your chance for private — gain; If you ean loaf while everybody’s working, And make no move to help your Unele Sam, But spend your days in idle, worthless shirking And show that you don’t care a tinker’s dam; If you are happy only when you’re carving A big and juicy joint of prime roast beef, And have no thought for people who are starving, And save no meat to furnish them relief; If you permit your worthless heart to harden 4 To Europe’s eager ery for bread and meat, And utterly refuse to make a garden To help inerease our stoel of stuff to eat; IL SAY—if you ean live in this poor fashion And be as heedless as you were before, You're lost to all respect and all ecom- passion; YOU’RE JUST A SLACKER, MAN, AND NOTHING MORE; BUT IF you save whatever you are able, And help to feed the men who go to fight, By raising beans and cabbage for your table, So Uncle Sam may feed his soldiers right; If you will start your backyard garden . erowing, Why, then, you'll have a right to crow and BRAG, For you'll be making just as good a showing As those who eross the sea to save the flag. Help On the*Food Work : If you can’t raise chickens yourself, you ean at least encourage those who can. Plant a garden. The average size’ war garden can be persuaded to pay the average fami- ly’s Income tax. If you can’t. plant a war garden, at least you ean refrain from. sowing wild oats to offset other people’s gardens these busy days. One thoughtful para- grapher observes that many a man who thinks he could manage the ~ entire country can’t even manage his own back- yard garden. This obser- vation prompts another writer to declare that as Mie a general thing that sort of a fellow has no back- PRODUCER, MANUFACTURER AND CONSUMER yard garden. HOR: HUR EVERY BED NAS 4 TENENT® GON ya VLD DASIES?N! NE HO" HOW 4RE You GOW” 0 CAPTURE THE “iD CUCUMBERS? . SOME GARDEN NOR NOR! Of course the office kidder had to wait till the day you returned from a two weeks’ auto trip to inspect your war garden. Fincu in Denver Post. 23 Donaney in Cleveland Plain Dealer. ” the seapack said, “To think of growing things, Of corn and wheat, to make our bread, And stuff that gard’ning brings, For we must feed our soldier men And those of foreign kings,” “The time has come, k s Him t°. wer Keep Willie 57 Pure?) BF Tu yet Nes THE CARTOONIST’S SYMPHONY By Fox, Finch and SATTERFIELD, - 24 - _A housewife who lived in Deland Took her pipe-smoking hubby in hand. | ““Come along here,’ said she, “You can’t leave it to me. ~ You must help get this garden sass canned.” Too Much Rivalry ** How is your wife making out with those onions she is raising in a flower pot?” “They’re drooping. Stirring the soil with a hairpin was all very well, but I don’t think perfume from an atomizer is the sort cf irrigation they need.” Some cook in the navy has given out a recipe for camouflage ginger bread. An expert. cook friend of ours tells us real ginger bread can be made for half the price. re APRESERVED VEGETABLES HOME DEFENSE HARDING in Brooklyn Eagle. Alonzo Alphonso Romayne Is a wizard of legerdemain. With a wave of his wand He can make an old pond : Grow beets and tomatoes and grain. “Mamma, Billy Smith is keeping chick- ens now, and I have declared war upon him.”’ “What for?” ‘“Well I want to make our back garden safe for the world.” A report by the Federal Children’s Bureau says that since the increase of the price of milk to 14 cents a quart more than half of 2,200 families investigated in New York City had substituted tea and coffee for children. 42 THE “JOURNAL oa =WILL SHow ‘You HOw ' 5 HELP CAN THE KAISER! BREWERTON in Allanta Journal Cappae aovrad Clean over the top we will travel, As soldiers of hoe and of spade; We're digging the earth and the gravel, We're getting our war gardens made. To-day is no time for the slacker, And war has no place for the shirk; When you find slacker land take it firmly in hand, And if it won't fight, make it work. A New Form of Test “He loves the very ground she walks on.”’ “Does he love it well enough to plant a vegetable garden in it for her benefit? ”’ Tickle the earth with a spade and she will laugh back at you with a joyous crop. Even the people who live in apartments can raise their vegetables on a dumb waiter. NEXT YEAR ‘ee PLANT St HILLS, MR PRESIDENT HOW YOU FEEL WHEN YOU RAISE YOUR FIRST POTATO FINCH in Denver Post. bo (or) Said Miss Gladys Clarissa McTanner: ‘‘T’ve abandoned my player pianner. Art is all very good But it won't supply food So I’m playing my tunes on my canner.’’ Fooling the Poultry One ingenious gardener is said to have pretended she was planting something and then put some fake cards around her make-believe garden, after which she let the neighbors’ chickens scratch themselves skinny looking for the seed. Little Miss Muffet went out to rough it By working with spade and hoe, But when her tomatoes came up as potatoes Poor startled Miss Muffet said ‘‘Oh!”’ Think of the thousands of unborn beans that are awaiting the coming of the summer garden. PATRIOTIC LITERATURE FOR 1018 | There’s a patriotic journal That is free from battle news— Wholly free from blood and thunder! You can read it if you choose. When you tire of war and war news, Why not give your brain a jog By a thoughtful wise perusal Of the garden catalog? MartTHA HART, in Des Moines Tribune. SCHOOL PLAY.G ROUND Said the youngsters of Lakewood, N. J.: “Just watch us make war gardens pay. We'll go over the top With a smashing big crop, For this is not work—this is play.” - The Great Joker REDERICK. W. VANDERBILT, at a dinner in Poughkeepsie, praised ‘the production of his war garden. “Tf I told you all that my war garden has produced,” he said, “‘you wouldn’t believe me. You’d think I was as men- dacious a joker as Mark Twain. ““A young girl once asked Mark Twain to write in her autograph album. She said it must be something she could show her mother. The great humorist dipped his _ pen in the ink and wrote: “**Never tell a lie.’ ‘Beautiful,’ said the girl, in a slightly disappointed voice; but Mark wasn’t done yet. He dipped his pen in the ink again and added: ““Fixcept to keep in practice.’”’ LEAVING THE! TRACKS 1S SO COMMON AN OCCURENCE WITH THE TROLLEY THAT THE'SKIPPER HAS A BECOME USED To IT, BUT LAST’ WEEK fet THE BLAME THING WENT AND JUMPED RIGHT inf(O0 A WAR GARDEN WHICH THE SKIPPER HAD PLANTED ALONG THE RIGHT OF WAY. 1 Copyright, 1918, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. THE TOONERVILLE TROLLEY Fox in Philadelphia Evening Ledger. GROW MUNITIONS. OF WwAR AT HOME IT’S A GARDEN PLOT A garden in eyery back lot Is about the best thing we have got. It’s as good as our guns . For bombarding the Huns Is this anti-Hun war garden plot. Forethought “How are you getting along with your garden? ”’ ‘Wine! I’ve planted the seeds two feet deep ana defy the neighbors’ chickens to dig them up.” Young Livingston Beekman de Peyser Said: ‘‘I’m gloating just like an old miser; TVll grow ammunition To send to perdition That blood-thirsty scoundrel the Kaiser.” Mrs. Sadleigh has given up sighing At the cost of the food she’s been buying, For she’s got ’em all beat On the good things to eat Since she’s taken to Canning and Drying. THEY TRIED TO STOP THE SKIPPER USING THE COMPANY'S CURRENT TO WORK ‘ey HIS GARDEN THIS SPRING BUT THE “4 SKIPPER CLAIMED 1T WAS A WAR WY GARDEN AND THREATENED.Yo PUT ck THE MATT=& uP Yo WASH ON: Copyright, 1918, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. THAT MEETS ALL TRAINS Fox in Spokane Chronicle. THE OMY COODBUG (5.4 QEAD BUG —s TSS SIG GL OWOU TT SOR THE, BUGS THE COMMISSION’S OWN CARTOONISTS MAKE A SPRING AND SUMMER DRIVE AGAINST THE ENEMY VEGETABLES YOU SHOULD KNOW IMOTHY TURNIP he lives down- stairs, No one could say that he puts on airs; He lives in a box that’s made of wood, Very simple, but strong and good. And mother ean always depend on him If she thinks the dinner is kind of thin; He’s a fat old thing, but he does combine, And he makes boiled dinners uncommonly fine. 28 H, Ann Letitia Carrottop, she is a stupid thing, She is sort of orange-colored with a bang of greenish string; She hasn’t any manners and she hasn’t . any style, uel But when you see her in your soup— She makes you want to smile, ae She looks so handsome in your soup : She makes a person smile. Said Mrs. Josephus Brevoort: “This Canning is bully good sport. Every jar is a shell To give the Huns Hell And my house is a regular fort.”’ 4 The Society Gardener RS. SMYTH-DALTON’S correspon- dence with her local war-garden com- mittee develops some new and engaging _ phases of war gardening. Some extracts: I have decided to sacrifice my beautiful grounds for food raising. Kindly write me how to proceed. Also notify the society _ papers. Send them the enclosed photo- ‘graphs and warn them noi to leave the hyphen out of my name again! If they desire a personal interview, no doubt it can be arranged, although such things are very tiresome. I have just bought the dearest set of ladies’ garden tools imaginable. They are solid silver with mahogany handles. JI am HOW ABOUT YOUR WAR GARDEN? Mah boss talkin’ about he gwine make a drive fuh Uncle Sam wid a wah gyahden dis spring. Da’s all right, but Ah bet Ah bees de sojer whut dooes de shootin’, ennyhow. HY ir 3 I When we get to the season of frost You will feel like a soul that is lost, If you haven’t at hand Lots of stuff you have canned For defeating the high living cost. having my monogram placed in platinum oneach one. I also have the sweetest sun- bonnet you ever saw. It is made of rare convent lace, which the nuns worked on constantly for twenty-nine years. It is shirred over rose-pink silk and caught at each shirring with real pearls! Besides being almost priceless, it is extremely becoming. y Seed catalogues received, but they are “Paw, oh, paw, don’t you hurt yourself plantin’ those peas!” DonauHbEy in Cleveland Plain Dealer. READY FOR THE SPRING DRIVE HAL CorrMan in Washington Times. strangely inadequate. They contain only common varieties of food which do not ap- peal to me. I love pété de foie gras, but it isn’t listed. Neither can I find apricots nor maraschino cherries. I must have the latter. My heart is set on having cherry beds under the Lodge windows. I shall need large quantities of mint and dinner raisins, and may as well raise my own olives and make my own oil—then there will be no question of impurity.: Kindly send catalogues of the best foods by special mes- senger. Have ordered several smart gardening frocks, with droopy hats to match and ean hardly wait to wear them. War work is intensely inter- esting and I am more than glad I took it up. I have not felt bored since last Friday. P. S. Surely you have blueberry bulbs? Send a large quantity by mounted messenger. We all like blueberry pie. It seems strange that 30 Sully! you have no other seed catalogues! And I am at your advice to raise only beans and potatoes! _ They are so prosaic that I fear I should lose in- terest and, besides, we on the grounds. I do not think it would look just right to see ‘‘ Naomr Shielding Her Child”’ in the middle of a potato patech—or “Diana Hid- ing’’ in beans!~ There- fore I shall conform to my original plan of rais- ing the things of which I am specially fond. I feel that -you de- not being able to supply 3 everything asked for. hs But if you cannot do so, I must go elsewhere. As I finished the above sentence a seed salesman called—very opportune- ly—who ean _ furnish everything I want. He was very helpful in-assisting me to mark out small citron eroves, fig plots and picturesque little palm gardens, which will be beautified by almond vines and walnut shrubs. In one section of the grounds I planned a miniature coffee plantation. The war has inflated seed prices fright- But, as the man said when J was pe be aie ZZ “T DON’T WANTA DIG, I WANTA GO TO WAR! 2 DonaHeEy in Cleveland Plain Dealer. have splendid statuary serve severe criticism for also extremely surprised 4 making out the check, : aoe we cannot eat money Des fi D.W Asits— HOW Zo) pea — Yd CAN | WORM Af eon be exchanged My 7 Z eS ae BEOE LOO 5 Re ie 4 ys witHouT TRAMP- ; Have just caught my Bf)! 3 ' Vp UME? id ING IT ALC -~ men in the very act of UP. ?* spreading a highly offen- Be Hien Ree PES = sive decomposed sub- stance in all directions. I ordered it removed instantly, of course, and have sent for disinfect- ants. Must close to give further orders. P. S.—Seven workmen have just left. Shall depend on you to send others immediately. q N SN 5 * * * I have not heard from you—and do not want Ov hereby eancel all FRUEH in New York World. orders sent. Neither have I heard from the seed salesman—and four detectives have failed to find him! My eonfidence has been shamefully abused. The seeds he sold me at such fabulous prices were different kinds of fancy grass. I have 200 acres of it! It is needless to say I shall not attempt ‘to go further with a war garden. I hardly think it was required, anyway— the press has taken so little notice of it. Am leaving to-night for my usual season at Newport, where I shall put war—and incompetent committees —out of my mind completely. THE HOE IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORDAND PEW If you'd live a long life, take my hunch: For your breakfast and dinner and lunch Eat potatoes and beans, PASSING OF THE PRAIRIE LEAGUE Onions, cabbage and greens, es And you'll give Father Time a stiff punch. KETTNER in Chambersburg Public Opinion. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS p eee | on | Wy a) 4 \ ) Aa RSS SS After J. N. Darling, in New York Tribune, NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION Affiliated with the Conservation Department of the American Forestry Association THE MARYLAND BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. CHARLES LATHROP Pack, President PERCIVAL S. RIDSDALE, Secretary. LuTHER BuRBSONEK, Calif. - Dr. Joun Grier Hissen, N. J. a Dr. CHARLES W. Ettot, Mass. Emerson McMItiin, N. Y. Dr. IRVING FISHER, Conn. CHARLES LATHROP Pack, N. J. Frep H. Gorr, Ohio. A. W. Suaw, Il. JoHN Hays HAammonp, Mass. Mrs. Joun DickINSON SHERMAN, IIL, - FarrFAx Harrison, Va. Cart. J. B. Waite, Mo. Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio. Hon. JAMEs Witson, Jowa. P, P, CLraxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Additional copies of this book may be obtained upon request. We also issue a Manual on War Vegetable Gardening with directions for Home Storage of Vegetables and a Manual on Home Canning and Drying of Vegetables and Fruits. Copies may be obtained upon request. For single copies of these Manuals no charge is made. Organizations may obtain small quantities without charge and larger quantities at nominal charge. A list of manufacturers of Canning and Drying devices and equipmeut may be obtained upon request. 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