In our effort to conserve food at home this year, the storage of vegetables is exceedingly important. Potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, cabbage, onions, squash, pumpkins and other vegetables can be stored successfully over winter so that they remain fresh and firm. The more vegetables that can be stored fresh, the less the family need draw upon canned, frozen and other conserved foods.

We can increase food production by growing more acres of the necessary crops, but we are inclined to forget that high acre yields can often contribute more toward total production than shifts in crop acres. High acre yields also mean less labor and machinery costs per ton of hay or bushel of grain produced. And that’s an important consideration during this war emergency.

In our war effort to produce more food, let’s work our level and low soils harder and take the crop producing load off the farms that are rolling, rough and liable to erode.

If you happen to be one of the Iowa farmers who has just broken a sickle on your mower by running into a pocket gopher mound, perhaps you would like to know some simple way of getting rid of these pests.