Show OFFICE on Home Front hardens Sufficient Vegetables Can Be Raised for Entire Family on Small Fertile Sites Beginners Told to Plan Plots Before Starting Seeding However Hitler Hirohito and Mussolini may be kept guessing about Allied offensives on the fighting fronts of the world they can just as well be told right now that there is no secret about one of America’s great It’s drives on the home front the Victory Garden campaign already under way and expected to set a national record for home food production When a national poll late last month reported that 54 per cent of the citizens interviewed were intending to grow gardens this year newspaper readers of the country became aware of the proportions of this home-frooffensive By January however it was no news to the government’s garden propioters that a 1943 bumper crop of home gardeners was in sight They were already swamped with popular demands for and were meeting information them — with news releases radio programs photographs and a special 1943 edition of a publication called "Victory Gardens” The garden authorities had seen what happened in 1942 when an estimated 15000000 Victory Gardeners shouldered spades and hoes Since then they had seen the national food situation change until by the of 1943 the department of beginning agriculture was saying: "The na tion needs the help of everyone who can grow a good garden" Will Educate Gardeners The department of agriculture it may be reported was precise in making Its appeal to everyone who can grow a good garden Getting good gardens from inexperienced gardeners thus became one of the department’s war concerns Fortuits bureau of plant industry nately In the agricultural research administration has been dealing with this same problem in normal dimensions for many years and was all set to meet the demands for information as they might arise It is impossible of' course to avoid thinnings of some vegetables Small seeds like those of carrots collards onion parsnips spinach and turnips must be sown three or four times as thick as the plants will because many eventually grow seeds fail to grow well Surplus then have to be thinned seedlings out before the plants crowd each other When the inexperienced gardener begins to worry about not planting his seed too deep or too shallow too early or too late and realizes the many other details that have to be kept in mind he will appreciate truly the helpfulness of such publications as the department of agriculture’s “Victory Gardens” and the other free bulletins that can be obtained from the government and from state agricultural colleges and extension services Most valuable of all to him will probably be the one nearest to his home for published from it he can obtain most specific information on the times of planting and on the varieties of vegetables best adapted to his locality With such aids 18000000 Americans and their helpers are this year expected to plant Victory Gardens— 6000000 of them on farms the rest in their backyards on vacant lots or in community Victory Gardens With the seed sown and the tomato and cabbage plants set out Run Rows Long Way rows of pole snap beans two rows ot pole lima beans two rows of tomatoes half a row of lettuce half a row of chard and one row each of " Variety Choose Vegetables You Like With the area located the Victory Gardener’s next step is putting the garden on paper an exercise not only interesting but also especially Arhelpful for the inexperienced ranging the garden properly includes attention to a few general for example Rows principles should not run up and down hill if the garden slopes very much but if the area is level the rows should run the long way for convenience First plantings are generally best the or east side south along placed of the garden with later crops being sown progressively across the area and whenever possible the tall growing plants should be on the west or north side of the garden so they will not shade other plants The main item in planning a garden is of course choosing what to There plant One thing is certain i$ little to be gained in growing vegetables that the family does not like but within the family taste there are many garden products from which to choose Green leafy lettuce cabbage vegetables— leaf spinach chard collards kale and turnip greens— should be well represented in every garden Tomatoes and beans are also likely to be All these are rich grown generally in vitamins Potatoes and corn are among the best energy foods but they require considerable space and are thus not recommended for very small gardens which should specialize on the valuable vitamin or protective vegetables No garden plan of course is suitall able for tastes or all localities but an example of one balanced garden is provided by Dr Victor H Boswell in his “Victory Gardens" For the 30 by 50 “very small garden" Dr Boswell suggests 13 vegetables planted in 14 rows Those planted in spring include two Crop Prospects Prospects are favorable for another year of food production the department of agriculture has pointed out in a summary of agricultural developments However the demand for farm products is expected to increase more than pro- duction Moisture conditions were favorable at the beginning of 1943 and with only average weather from now for Everybody they will still have to face the Axis agents known to gardeners as weeds insects and diseases But they will know at least that their own offensive is under way and that the seeds of Victory are in the ground The gist of garden fundamentals has by now been reduced to terms so simple that they make gardening seem easier than it really is— so easy in fact that a great emphasis No has been put on perseverance one reading garden instructions it is pointed out repeatto foot set should the spade his edly unless he is determined to stay by his job without wasting seed fertilizer or effort The first requirement that the new gardener will find in the specifications written by the experts is for a garden spot that is both sunny and fertile And for his help in he is given the judging fertility “If the weeds grow rank the soil is fertile’’ Good soil moisture and sunshine are three essentials If they are missing no gardener can expect to grow enough crops to justify his use of seed fertilizer and effort The home gardener this year is advised to grow just as nearly all the fresh vegetables for his family A as he possibly can garden 50 feet by 100 feet tended and kept growing all season is for example to expected produce enough vegetables to give each member of a family of five at least three servings a day which comes about as close to providing the needed four to seven daily servings of fruits and vegetables as many gardeners can come Smallest garden size for which a garden plan is suggested by the department of agriculture is 30 by 50 feet but even smaller areas will crop of tomatoes grow a worthwhile if greater and a few other crops space cannot be obtained Favorable harvest crop yields per acre are likely to be about equal to the general level in 1940 and 1941 and higher than in any earlier year Stocks of feed grains and of wheat and numbers of cattle on feed Janrecuary 1 were at an ord Numbers of sheep and lambs on feed for market were only slightly below the record set a year earlier until beets carrots turnips cabbage onWhen ions radishes and spinach these are harvested the “succession" crops include two rows of collards as well as later plantings of the other vegetables Need Only Four Tool Inevitably gardening on paper leads to the real thing and that means tools Fortunately however at a time when metal is scarce There nothing elaborate is needed are many garden implements but four of them will serve all purposes very well — a spade or spading fork a steel rake a common hoe and a strong cord Spading can start as soon as the land is sufficiently dry in spring and the garden has been cleared of debris Eight to ten inches is a good depth for spading if the top soil is deep On thin layers of top soil experienced gardeners are careful not to turn up too much of the infertile subsoil To increase the soil’s fertility the spader should mix in some leafmold manure or other decayed organic matter if these fertilizers are available Every 25 of the garden can well feet square take as much as a bushel Commercial fertilizer will also be needed on most gardens but its application can best be delayed until after the spaded clods have been broken up and the whole garden worked up with the rake and smoothed out for planting Then the fertilizer is applied in bands along the planted rows This year Victory Gardeners will have a special fertilizer with 3 per cent nitrogen (about 85 per cent ol it organic) together with 8 per cent of phosphoric acid and 7 per cent potash Described as the best formula that can be made available to victory gardeners during the wartime emergency when war calls for so much chemical nitrogen this mixture comes in packages of 5 10 25 50 and 100 pounds net weight labeled "Victory Gardener Fertilizer— for Food Production Only” This fertilizer is best applied along the garden rows in a band about three or four inches wide about two inches from the line where the seeds will be sown or the plants set A wide furrow about two inches deep is scooped out with the hoe The fertilizer is spread uniformly along this furrow at the rate of pound per 24 or 25 feet or row mixed with the soil and covered about two inches deep It should not touch the seed Broadcasting fertilizer is easier than applying it in bands but unless the rows are very close the broadcasting brings less efficient results If the Victory Garden fertilizer is broadcast it should be used at the rate of three or four pounds per 100 square feet and then mixed with the soil thoroughly Don’t Sow Too Thick Common to all gardeners at planting time is the danger of sowing seed too thickly— a mistake that ii wasteful not only of precious seed but also of time For seed that is sown wastefully produces seedlings that must later be thinned at the expense of time and sometimes back- aches Bean and pea seeds should be spaced as the plants are expected to stand for these vegetables should never be thinned in the rows Beel and chard "seeds’’ are really fruits containing several seeds and should thus be sown no thicker than the plants are to stand although some thinning will be needed Cabbage and tomato and onion plants and onion sets are also placed where they will remain EQUIPMENT dk and chain NEW AND USED aafca mch adding typcwril-g L DES EX Si W Bfaaidwair flleaj c“Tf4 IN DEMAND ARE BARBERS you bartering in a few montba LAKE BARBER COLLEGE MOLEBSALT Salt Lake St Regent while Things You Always Knew: (But which I didn’t know ’til now) That 30 to 50 gallons of gas are needed to warm up a bomber People on the Island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean rarely have any tind of dental trouble Scientists lave discovered there is no such :hing as silence (The nearest thing Ben it is the hush that follows The tapir is Bernie’s act) :he only animal that has not been The way :hanged by evolution get a divorce in Zochin China is merely to break a pair of n the presence of witnesses tractor wanted Washington D C gard:n WANES RUSSIAN SOCIALISM QI Tractor writ Caah for Garden The Russians are doing more thac reversing the direction of Nazi milireDUPLICATED LENSES are movement also tary They versing certain important political the opticalSalt shop and social directions Laka City S14 Boston Bide Wholesale prices Lenses duplicated Americans in Russia now report Mail in broken pieces service the reappearance of shoulder insignia on the officers of the Red army-t- or USED CARS— TRAILERS the first time since the dark days of the Revolution COACHES USED CARS— TRAILER Credit Terms Liberal In those days officers who supJESSE M CHASE ported the Bolshevik movement tore Buy — Sell — Trade as from uniforms the epaulets their IN STORES a mark of democracy Those who SALT LAKE CITT PROVO OGDEN failed to do so were regarded as BLACKPOOT BOISE POCATELLO The sound made by twenty seven enemies of the Revolution and in is only twice that of one some extreme cases mobs attacked singers singer Joyce Kilmer received them drove nails through the epauinly $6 for his immortal poem lets into their shoulders ‘Trees” (Poetry is the best povThere is also a change in official Unrestrained giggling is I WAS A SLAVE erty) on the streets of Helena awards or decorationsfor indicatingof llegal heroes that Bolshevik scorn Mont (It’s okay however to laugh the TO CONSTIPATION past is vanishing Three of the jp your sleeve) most coveted decorations of the SoTalk about being In bondviet Union today are the award ol British railroads classify typewrit-tr- s "Nevski” who was a 13th century age I felt as If I were walking around In chains Purges as musical instruments prince and the awards of "Suvorov” only helped me temporarily originated the system of and "Kutuzov” who were Czarist Then I learned the cause A silent violin houses of my constipatloa It was generals at the time of Napoleon las been perfected (How about a lack of “bulk” In my diet cross Also St the which George’s When milk silent swing band?) So I took a friend's advice torn been would have the from aims sour it still retains all of its and began eating kelloco’s a few years Julius Caesar breast of the wearer lutritive value It sure is a grandH G ago has made its reappearance at streets nvented tasting cerCbl— and did Just what he said It would do It A'ells gives all his guests keys to official functions at cause of my conthe got U S the The has a lis wine cellar (He figures drunk public impresstipation and corrected It sion of modern Russians as dressed s better than a bore) If your trouble 1s like m coarse formless but reclothing mine why don’t you try from the USSR today state Just eat It reguWashington jewelers are selling ports Red that army officers dress with containers (with a larly drink plenty of water platinum and — “Join the Regulars”! which hold two lumps of sugar such punctilio as to make American Made by Kellogg’s In Bat tor those dining out The word officers look shabby by comparison tle Creek eep was bom this way: When they s LITTLE AID TO CHINA Irst came out the mechanical had the letters G P painted Just back from Chungking Genn them — meaning for General Pureral "Hap” Arnold chief of the air poses (Oh just take off my long forces gave a glowing report to SecWith Patience pants and call me a Quiz Kid!) retary of War Stimson regarding Chinese resourcefulness in battling Everything which is out of our He was amazed and full power to amend becomes more the Japs Katherine Brush has this prescription for insomnia: Imagine your of praise for Chinese ingenuity in Bupportable by patience— Horace mind is a blackboard and your repairing planes landing in cow pasare writings in chalk tures and conserving fuel thoughts Relief for Miseries of which you erase as fast as you As far as General Arnold is conthink of them (An easier method cerned he would like to send the ChiMore is to hear nese a lot more planes— though in iccidents occur in autumn than in the past he has not been too keen any other season Prosperous about it (Incidentally one reason Put R purpose for sending him to China was to win princes in India show how rich they tip each nostril It (1) shrinks swollen meare by wearing two neckties (That lim over to the Chinese cause) mbranes (2) soothes Irritation and :ertainly is carrying the However Madame clear (3) despite helps Chiang idea to a ridiculous extreme) nasal passages Kai - shek’s graceful appearance y(K5 TtVtllnor nnmnlptA nere despite Hap Arnold’s enthusiSenators (but not Representatasm despite the President’s public ives) can get haircuts gratis at the statements China is not going to Paper Parachute "apitol (It shows you what influin the way of get anything much ence will do for a Senator) A new parachute 5 O S doesn’t mean "Save Our supplies Reasons Listed has been perfected which can hana sigdistress It’s dle loads up to 50 pounds merely Ships” Reasons are: (1) the impossibil-tsimit’s a nal that is used because of opening the Burma road now ple combination of A'ith the monsoon season only a few and can be sent over the air quickly weeks off (2) the absolute necessity as well as experts by amateurs of cleaning up Africa and preparing for a drive against Hitler in Europe Chow mein has vitamins in it (We (3) Chinese political dissension always knew there was something in which requires too many aims for Years ago all dance rou- personal armies it!) The tines ended with a kiss Some war weapons will be flown Chinese are the best patrons of over the Himalayas but not much and give the biggest tips more than in the past The only public kissing legal In Italy is at railroad stations (11 PLAN RUML VOTE SECRET WHEN KIDNEY FUNCTION Donald Duce was the only one who The vote of the house ways and LAGS from this need was able to throw himself kisses in committee the Ruml means on plan public from a balcony) Functional kidney disturbance due to need was secret hut inside fact is it nevof diuretic aid may cause stabbing backer had a chance of getting more ache! May cause urinary flow to be Diet experts claim that careful than five votes quent yet scanty and smarting! You may is the not exercise best way eating lose sleep from "getting up nights" often flood of commail The reaching to reduce Gen Billy Mitchell —may feel dizzy nervous “headachy” members first mittee favorable at is also responsible for the paratroop In such cases you want to stimulate round and showed conclusivelkidntj action fait So if there is nothing Idea Paris thieves hold the turned aystemically or organically wrong try record for oddities in larceny They y that the country was against outGold Medal Capsules They’ve been of taxes once stole a complete house leaving right postponement for prompt action for 30 years Take sentiment One large expressed in the care to use them only as directed Accept only the foundation ao substitutes iit at your drug store mail was that although high taxes American food concern Employs unfair too it ourt was to postpone eight cooks to originate and sample much of the war cost to the next new recipes YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROIU generation became more the Also committee Soldiers have discovered that Woconvinced and the more that Ruml sauce makes the best inrcestershire for polishing brass buttons plan was largely cooked up for the gredient If you suffer from hot flashes dizzWhen an aide brings MacAr-thu- r benefit of top bracket incomes and iness distress of “Irregularities" an it a huge pile of mail he says: if taxes were forgiven one year weak nervous Irritable blue at times— due to the functional "Leave the ones that are going to would mean shifting a much greater ” to lower to period In a woman’s burden income groups help win the war and throw the oth— try Lydia E Plnkham'a Veglife ers away” The custom of kiss- make up the deficit etable Compound — the This they concluded was just medicine you can buy today that's ing the bride after the marriage made especially for women ceremony was born in the 6th Cen- what Mr Ruml's war wealthy cliPlnkham's Compound baa helped It was supposed to cure her of ents wanted thousands upon thousands of tury en to relieve such annoying symtalking too much ptoms Follow label directions PlnkCURE FOR TYPHUS ham's Compound Is worth trying I By way of London has come word The Arabs’ idea of a delicacy is that the Germans have evolved a Sciboiled camel (On toast?) for the dread disease typhus oure entific experiments have proved that If so it is a discovery meaning the women are cooler than men of thousands of men in the The funniest divorce case on record lives front In 1914 "General Tyconcerns the hubby who Renovated eastern was responsible for more his bride because she took his false phus” and gun fire teeth and held them for two dollars lives than machine from time to time it has ravaged the ransom Balkans Russia and eastern Eusince Don’t ask me why but men with rope ever TAKE ATONIC The German cure was discovered subbeards can’t ride in Moscow’s Benito got the idea for the by a Dr Van Meerdock and is a MANY DOCTORS way oombination of and atebrin plasmo-ohiold an Roman from salute Fascist U S Public Health officials RECOMMEND But the dope didn’t know painting that old Roman citizens greeted each lave their fingers crossed regarding other by shaking hands— and only the cure but British medical circles seem to be favorably impressed salute slaves used the raised-arMILLIONS WHO "TIRE OUT” easily due to deficiency CAPITAL CHAFF It eost $3000 to discover America takof Vitamins A and Scott’s EmulThat’s how much money Queen Isa- (t General Eisenhower has sent word ing that there are too sion daily Also helps build rebella gave Columbus for the journey to Washington sistance against common colds Here’s a twist: During the past many news correspondents running and other winter ills if there s more arpund North Africa five population is a dietary deficiency of Vita-men than women refused to report H' Budget Bureau has prepared a mins A and D TWay-bplan for consolidating all picturetheir ages Scott’s Emulsion Take it year making branches of war department All druggists AV ’round —signal If a bulldog's eyes are two difcorps air corps special ferent colors it means he’s deaf in services and strategic services senate’s conThe (L athlete strike a one ear up (If you versation with a bulldog with as- Theodore Green of Rhode Island sorted orbs remember to raise your eats a buttered muffin and coffee The Bronx was once for breakfast a bowl of soup and a voice) suggested for the capital of tho JJ S glass of milk for lunch HEAD COLB! BACKACHE HOT FLASHES 7 Plants Should Be Spaced Marines Get Coffee And Sugar in Tropics Uncle Sam’s Leathernecks stationed in Puerto Rico do not worry about two of the most important staples rationed in the United States —sugar and coffee Although the coffee crop in Puerto Rico is not what it used to be nobody including United States marines goes without coffee It is still part of life on the island |