lines. Last summer the French fed 20,000 of their men from similar
gardens.

EVERY POUND OF FOOD GROWN IN THESE HOME AND COMMUNITY GARDENS
RELIEVES THE RAILROAD CONGESTION AND GIVES MORE SPACE FOR TRANSPORTING
MUNITIONS AND COAL. EVERY POUND OF FOOD GROWN RELEASES STAPLES FOR
EUROPE. Extra production of food of any kind, anywhere, takes on a
new significance in the presence of half a world hungry.

IF YOU CANNOT GROW VEGETABLES, USE THEM IN ABUNDANCE ANYWAY. They
are too perishable to ship abroad and too bulky, containing so much
water that it would be an uneconomical use of shipping to export them.
But the more America eats of almost any kind of vegetable or fruit,
the less of the more durable, concentrated foods will she require. The
products are so varied in kind and composition that they can be used
to serve almost any purpose--beans and peas to save meat; potatoes
and others to save wheat; sweet fruits to save sugar; jams, even,
when spread on bread, to save fat. All will improve the health and
therefore increase human energies for winning the war.

IN THE WAR DIET

_To Save Meat_. Beans and peas and peanuts are the only vegetables
with much protein, so that they are the ones thought of primarily as
meat substitutes. There are many kinds of them, fresh or dried, more
than most of us realize. It is worth while to add to the diet not
only the ordinary white or navy beans, but kidney, lima, black or soy
beans, cow-peas, the many colored beans such as the pinto, frijoles,
and the California pinks. It is these latter kinds that are used
by the Mexicans as their chief standby. The Army and Navy use huge
quantities of the white beans, and the Allied Governments are also
buying tons of the pintos.

The 1917 bean-crop, in response to the patriotic appeal, was 50 per
cent higher than the normal. Nearly all this increase was in the
colored beans, chiefly pintos. The Food Administration, fearing
that some of this unusual surplus might be wasted and the farmer
discouraged from producing a large output in 1918, bought up the extra
crop and distributed it for sale at the different markets.

Though soy beans and peanuts at least are exceptions, the protein
in beans and peas is not so satisfactory as a bodybuilder as that in
animal foods, so that a diet in which they are a large part should
contain also some milk or eggs or a little meat. Two cups (half a
pound) of shelled green peas or beans, or one cup with a cup of ski