Victory Gardens Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Victory Gardens IN times OF war the country's food supply for civilians may be smaller even though total production is greatly increased. The burdens of World War II are already creating serious food - production, distribution, and preservation problems. Labor and machinery shortages interfere with production overloaded railroads and restricted motor transport interfere with distribution; and inadequate supplies of labor, steel, and tin demand that civilians depend less on foods canned in tin. There is now-real need for civilians to relieve the burden on com merciai food sources, transportation, and preservation by growing all food that is practical at home and preserving, storing, and using it over as much of the year as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.