War Gardening and Home Storage of Vegetables

Item Information

• Description
  Charles Lathrop Pack (President of National War Garden Commission), letters in support of war gardens by War Department, U. S. Food Administration: Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, Edwin G. Baetjer (Federal Food Administrator for Maryland); Henry A. Forchheimer (Federal Food Administration Board), M. L. Parker (State Merchant Rep., Iowa Food Admin.); how to make and benefits of war gardens. Images of selected pages from this item are available. Searchable text is only available for the title page, index, and/or contents pages. Chapter headings: War Department Letter; Community Gardening - Plan of Garden; Part I: War Gardening Manual - Fertilizers; Soil - Cold Frame and Hotbed; Fertilizers; Soil; Tools - Indoor Planting; Seed; Selection of Crop - Cultivation; Planting - Diseases and Insects; Spraying - Diseases and Spraying (cont.) - Part II: Home Storage Manual for Vegetables and Apples - Storage (cont.) - Storage (cont.); Potatoes - Seed - Seed (cont.) - United States Food Administration Letter - Back Cover.

• Item ID
  CK0036
• Category
  Nicole Di Bona Peterson Collection of Advertising Cookbooks (1878 - 1929)
• Product
  home vegetable gardening
• Title
  War Gardening and Home Storage of Vegetables
• Company
  National War Garden Comission
• Date
  1919
• Type
  Still Image
  advertisements
• Subject
  Vegetables [Misc.]

• Copyright & Usage
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