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Show HELP FEED YOURSELF ' Make homo frardens nnd back yards productive. produc-tive. Make every square yard of fertile, sunny soil produce food for your family. If you can't raise nil your own vegetables, at least raise some. Make your ground work for you and the un-tion. un-tion. Idle ground is waste. This is no time for waste or idleness. All idle ground used in the production of vegetables veg-etables means more food for those who have no ground nt nil. You enn rnise some vegetnblos for your fnmily, no mntter how smnll n piece of ground you have. Somebody hns to raise everything you ent. Do your shnre. Keep your soil working nil season. Save all surplus fruits and vegetables. First Keep your gnrden working all season. Hasten enrly crops by starting seed in boxes In the house, in hotbeds nnd cold frames If the wen-ther wen-ther prevents outdoor planting. Second Get your ground rendy for planting as soon ns the soil Is dry enough to work. Third Plant for enrly crops ns soon ns tho wenther permits. Mnke successive plnntlngs of lettuce, radishes, benns nnd other short Benson crops. 1'oorlh Stnrt new crops hetween the rows of plnnta tlint nre soon to "be rembved. Fifth As fast ns the ground la clenred of one crop stnrt a new crop. Sixth See that your gnrden toward fall ia full of potntocs, beets, turnips, cnbbngo nnd olb'f stnplo foods Hint enn be stored for the winter. Children, too, enn help. Roys nnd girls eu help mnke the soil in gardens, backyards awn cant lots produce food for the family. Laaf they raised In their gardens nnd helped to cw more thnn four million pneknges of vnlust" food. If the gnrden nt nny tlmo produces more thw enn bo used Immediately, do not nllow the surp to spoil. Cnn surplus benns, pens, corn, tow toes, beets, spinach, pumpkin nnd squash winter use. Cnn or preserve npplcs, penches, pcnrvj rles, quinces, berries nnd other cultivated wild fruits. Every cnn of vegetables or ' nnd every jnr of preserved food menns that r hnvo snved food mnterlnls that would baveouw wise been wnsted. ,M Cnn or store root crops, cnbbngo nnd ow vegetnblos properly so that they will keep ' nnd supply you with food when the g censes to produce. Learn how to grow na vegetables. ,., The United States department of ngrlctf or your state ngrlculturnl college or county P will give you explicit directions for rnising & etnbles, nnd will tell you simple rnethods ' cnnnlng vegetables nnd fruit nt homo WM dlnnry home utensils. , JM Demonstrate thrift In your home. wlM ing, tather than spending, your socinl stano h |