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Newspaper
Monmouth Herald
Location
Monmouth, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
3
The National Emergency Food Commission guides readers on choosing crops suited to small plots, suggesting root vegetables and early plantings like beets and lettuce. It stresses specializing in a few fresh, quick crops such as peas and radishes, while using edges for small fruits and permanent plantings.
A national emergency garden commission plans to place 1,000,000 city and town gardeners this spring to grow vegetables for families. Led by Charles Lathrop Taft and a group of educators, the effort partners schools, volunteers, and city programs to teach seed sprouting through harvest in urban yards and vacant lots, promoting crops like okra to diversify family diets.
Instructions warn against removing pods too early as plants may fail to ripen and die from frost. Sow seeds after risk passes, trust hotbeds for starter plants, then transplant outdoors. For spacing, dwarf okra rows four feet apart, tall varieties five feet apart, with plants two feet apart in rows.
Simple home pastry guide lists recipes for Melted Butter Cup Cakes Banana Puff Pastry and jelly roll style sponge cake with lemon zest and sugar. Includes directions for fig drop cakes and apple kitchen bread dough with rising overnight and cinnamon sugar toppings.
A legendary giant arctic petrel feeds on offal until bloated then sprints across ice with wings spread like sails. It disgorges food when chased and repeats the maneuver before fleeing. A separate anecdote recalls Liszt stopping to answer an aid until the czar signaled silence, then resuming.
The District of Columbia was originally called the territory of Columbia but soon changed to district. The term district predates territory, and Kentucky was once a district of Virginia while Maine was a district of Massachusetts.
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