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Show I" SAVE EVERYTri NOTHING ... ;3g? By P. Q. HOLDEN. ,w y O PORTION of our food supply should be wasted. Wo must saVS tt? IjL j Thore is no reason why any of it should bo lost I There isn't a thing grown in tho garden or orchard tnat we can- ' I" not save In some way. Wo can can It, or pickle It, or dry It, or bury) t Bt In tho ground or In sand or sawdust In the cellar, or simply put It In the' i cellar. ; Waste, bad enough at any time, Is criminal under present conditions, forj ' t- jwe will need all our products for the soldiers at the front and those of utj I !at home. Wasto Is bad management; 6avlng is profitable. If we cannot get Jars or cans enough for canning, we can save fruits andj ' vegetables In other ways. Some things are better preserved without being, canned. - - w . Peas and beana that gefctoo ripe for canning should bo dried and hung up' jln sacks In tho cellar. Even though they may be but a quart or two, they will) ihelp feed us and will be wholesome. Root Crops Easy ta Keep. t Turnips, beets, carrots, radishes and parsnips may; be- kept In moist Baw-1 1 'duBt or sand in tho collar or in a pit outdoors. Cabbages may be kept In an outdoor trench, or they may be kept forj whlln If hurled in hnralv moist snnd In boxes or barrels hi the cellar. Sweet potatoes can be stored. An easy and effective woy of storing them Is In use In the South. A bulletin describing the method will gladly be sent, free, to anyone sending a request to tho -writer's address, Harvester Building, Chicago. H; Cucumbers, beets, cauliflower, snap beans, green tomatoes, small white colons and melon rinds may be pickled. Pumpkins and squashes can bo kept for a whllo In a warm, dry part of tho cellar, or they may be cut up and canned or dried. Potatoes can bo kept In a pit out of doors or stored In a dry bin In the (cellar where It Is not warm enough to cause them to sprout or cold onough to freeze them. Rhubarb should bo canned, and, after the ground has been frozen In thej 'fall, a few plants may be dug up and transplanted In the cellar, wbero they Iwill grow all winter If tho temperature Is not too cold. Berries May Bo Dried. Blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants and cherries may be tilled by spreading them on a piece of canvas fastened to lath and suspended) above the kitchen stovo, a piece of mosquito netting being used to protect! them from flies, or they may bo made Into Jolly or jam. ) Apples may be stored in barrels or bins, or may be dried, canned or made into sweet pickles. Even the windfalls should not be allowed to go to woste.( They should be cut up and canned, made Into applo butter or cider, on preserved. H Peaches that-arc not fit to can may be saved In much tho samo way as1 'apples. H These axo some of the ways in which wo may save all the products of the 1 orchard and garden. There Is a way to save everything, and nono of the) products should bo wasted. I Can, dry, store, plcklo, preserve or bury. Save everything. Let nothing to-to waste. Wo will need It, Our country will need it I ' Every family should ba-vo n copy of Farmers' Bulletin, No, -41, "Drying; -BTUlta and Vegetables in the Home," Send to Division of Publication, United. ' States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. Q, for a copy. |