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Edition:
Reprint edition (Printed by arrangement with Greenberg: Publisher)
Publisher:
Grosset & Dunlap
Published:
1942
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18075272320
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Fair in Fair jacket. xiv, 246, [2] pages. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chilled. Page discoloration noted. This book is based in part on certain sections of Mr. Kains famous standard work Modern Guide to Successful Gardening. M. G. Kains was a Special Crop Culturist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was a Lecturer on Horticulture at Columbia University. This work is a complete, first-rate guide to vegetable and fruit growing, based on the then latest Department of Agriculture methods. It is a practical handbook that shows the reader hot to get the most in delicious foods of high nutritional value out of a small plot of ground. It covers virtually every problem the home gardener was likely to encounter, whether in peacetime or wartime. Maurice Grenville Kains (1868-1946) earned a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Cornell University, 1896, and M.S.A., 1897. During his career he was a Special crop culturist, United States Department of Agriculture, 1897-1900. Professor horticulture School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture, Briar Cliff Manor, New York (school now extinct), 1900-1902. An editor New International Cyclo., 1902-1903. He contributed to various publications, including Encyclopedia Americana, 1904; horticulture editor American Agriculturist, New York, 1904-1914. Professor horticulture and head of department, Pennsylvania State College, 1914-1916. Contributing editor of Farm Knowledge, 1818-1819, National Encyclopedia, 1932-1933. Editor Your Home (magazine), 1926-1927. Horticulturist. Poultry, Tribune since 1934. Attendees at a National Garden Conference held in Washington, DC in December 1941 set the groundwork of the World War II Victory Garden program (War Gardens was a similar program from World War I). Hosted by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Director of the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services, youth groups, farmers, garden clubs, seed companies, the farm press, and others were in attendance. In 1939, more than $200 million worth of vegetables were grown in 4.8 million farm home gardens. In 1944, 18.5 million gardeners took part in Victory Gardens, supplying 40% of the nation's fresh vegetables. Well-known Victory Gardeners--including Mickey Mouse, Batman, Superman, Vice President Henry Wallace, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt--encouraged people to participate. By the time the war was over in 1945, American Victory Gardeners had grown between 8 and 10 million tons of food. The United States Department of Agriculture encouraged the planting of victory gardens during the course of World War II. Around one third of the vegetables produced by the United States came from victory gardens. It was emphasized to American homefront urbanites and suburbanites that the produce from their gardens would help to lower the price of vegetables needed by the US War Department to feed the troops, thus saving money that could be spent elsewhere on the military: "Our food is fighting", one US poster read. By May 1943, there were 18 million victory gardens in the United States-12 million in cities and 6 million on farms. Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden on the White House lawn in 1943. The Roosevelts were not the first presidency to institute a garden in the White House. Woodrow Wilson grazed sheep on the south lawn during World War I to avoid mowing the lawn. Eleanor Roosevelt's garden instead served as a political message of the patriotic duty to garden, even though Eleanor did not tend to her own garden. While Victory Gardens were portrayed as a patriotic duty, 54% of Americans polled said they grew gardens for economic reasons while only 20% mentioned patriotism. Although at first the Department of Agriculture objected to Eleanor Roosevelt's institution of a victory garden on the White House grounds, fearing that such a movement would hurt the food industry, basic information about gardening appeared in public services booklets distributed by the Department of Agriculture, as well as...
