New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1926, Page 3

P » NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1926. LETTUCE BEGOMES | beans and peppers, are native to the | Americas. In dollar value the worth i\'flgetshlsn in which the trade fis | more than a million dollars a year, |only six, Irish potatoes, sweet pota- toes, tomatoes, sweet corn, green of thres All-Americans in the veg- etable markets, Irish potatoes, sweet Rises fo Fourth Plaoe fn “Hil-|Zoiaioes oo, lomaioes. sctvees the lionaire Produce” Washington, Aug. 20 (P—The rise of lettuce to fourth place the millionaire vegetable amo |tuce, celery, asparagus and carrots among the foreigners, are European. Tho onion, cabbage, green peas, cu- |cumbers, caulifiower and eggplant arc out of Asia. Watermelon and ng | cantaloupe, it is supposed, bought crops in |their passage from North Africa. tha United States, announced by the neestors of practically all fresh department of = agriculture, reads vegetables are living on their native like an Horatlo Alger story. Lettuce, |heaths or here. Very few links are with a United States crop worth |missing. A striking illustration of 000 in 1025, four times its evolution as applied fo plants can In 1219, ranks close to the be given by preparing a dinner using , potatoes, oes. Neglected the Vitamins sweet potatoes a tom. grocers an g the staples the green groce Omitt £weet potatoes, business in egetables came to $236,000,000 at would a modern dietict think of the Pilgrim's first Th giving dinner? Although there no recorded bill of fare they prob- venison, partridge, turkey, ably ate fish, oysters, duck, geese, barl loaves and corn b pumpkir wild gray ‘Terrible,” would be the dief clan's verdict, four or five Te is the salad cour Pio; it seems, demands red meat diet. While the Pilgrin vere living on meat, it was n ly used in England and were ev The Pharaoh’s Grocery On a stone of th in ancient times w which showed that eve esh vegetables as a class are “Too much protein. Important vitamins neglected. There 2, vegetables. y the custom in the home- land. By 1600 vegetables were wide- ptioa nd [these ancestors of the modern tables. Most of them are not dif- ficult to obtain. They grow in American fields and beside American ful upstarts in American fences. Most everyone is familiar Not so many years ago it |with wild lettuce as a fleld weed. distinguish be- |This Cinderella weed has the same rs. |coat-of-arms as crisp, sweet Ice ead lettuce! erg 17| When Vegetables Were Medicine in| “Gather some Queen Anne's lace for the evolution menu. That white an |midsummer spray is the flower of - the wild carrot. Pull it up and see is |the laughably thin wedge of its root. The grandfather of all beets has a root about as big as a baby's little ey |finger. Wild onions grow widely in ns, | America s of some import- ed stock ti- jonion’s true anc up in Pers ter rains “Wild cabbage does not grow in the United States. It grows in Fr a land but only an experienced botan- deserts the win- ms (ist can find it on the windy chalk ot cliffs. An amateur would look for head of leaves. The all cabbages, and that flower and Brussels sprouts too, is a sprawling weed with tough le o |Tesembling the figure of oak lea t the bitter natures of en the ndparents of our modern vege- bles was their original recommen- dation to the human race. Back in the not-so-long-ago people put great N gyplians f LeARaldzalioti now and |trust in herbs as sovereign remedies e the laborers likeq T 8l sorts of lils. Innocent celery, vegetables. For radishes, onions and {* European ditchweed, for example, garlic for t tHou listed in the ‘Herbals’ as an o 3 5 z nportar 1 he phrase t scription recorded, ‘the sum of 1,600 |!MPOKtant drug. The phrase “cu ntioned in the Bible as the |P¢TI0d: O e, cusLon 1o standard rate of exchange that su would work out to roxima 1,000 for rad onions rlic. The Ameri onion crop. for two vears could be settlement of grocery bill. and a ha the P ranked sh long the vege §) greatly did the Greeks over other articles of diet ths had the radish represented w model p tempie Appollo at ion silver and 1 has looked to Europe ion, country. Of 287 MAIN ST.—Over W. T. Grant Co. an radish an purchased for the aoh’s green further d elabor- > Immigrants in America nineteen ‘herbs’ became a ‘drug on the mark- et’ But trade in weeds had brought their cultivation in dens where they became larger less bitter. People who had common weeds as medicine began to buy them for food and when people insisted on sweeter and bigger weeds the weeds became vegefables. getables Preferred ging up the vegetables to blie preferences i c for the expert. A domina eference In Americ getables. The origina were yello: will disclos: Watermelons that low are just lat m nd used n1f suit of but few yellow tomato. ¢ naturally yel- the ope, C or | white apan radishes grow i Orient length to three but the |little red ones. It is the same pre- | would be |judice that mal a new white po- tato a sorry wanderer of the streets of New York in mid-winter. For years New York has consumed by itself practically the entire export of | all crops from Bermuda. Among these are Bermuda new potatoes which are always red. Georgia and Florida are now producing potatoes just as new and just as early but they are white and New York prefers the red ones. “Prejudice jury mony nator Simpson declined to d jury. of next month. The se ay, however, the may mold and color a weekly paper here, has been our vegetak but to science and | tacking the prosecution editorially. invention go the credit for their present honored position on the | Pistol Is Doubted American table. Science found that| Phjladelphia, Aug. 20 (P—Police mysterious substances called vita- . od merlous’ -doubts mins were vital to the pourishment |4 pisto) ¢ to have been used of man. Then they found that|in‘the murder of the Rev. Dr. Ed- vegetables were rich in vita wvard Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Elean Home economies wo ! or s really was the weapon in this news. They persuaded the house- | o ociion. wives that man could not live by |1y "Uistol given to police by Wil- wheat alone. Inventors 95 llam Wi a chauffeur, is nish manufacty ets recovered from corpse of Mrs. Mills were of It was pointed out, r American ca Iy have been That T the se tables from one : Now a Chicago housewife can mark- t in the Imperial Valley. California for lettuce in February; in May, she “arolina; she buys at home in June; relies upon northern New York in September; and in Decer ber her market basket is filled by Florida. is would he n American pistol. pistol today was in han. SIMPSON T0 ASK 32 ¢ however, urping the prerogatives to permit defense | eay whether he would ask for a special The next grand jury i that he pro- plication for a had been told ury, who is the publisher ot at red foreign weapon, impossible 13th stre atement i heard voi 1joining mine. There party who was ¢ ‘I want you to cut nse. 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