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Title: Steckler's seeds : 1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: J. Steckler Seed Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Garden tools Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New Orleans, La. : Steckler
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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d mustard greens, cab-bage, kale, and coUards, which, up totwelve years ago, were supposed to havelittle food value, as compared to meat,bread and dried beans, corn, and potatoes. In fact, the experts of ten or twentyyears ago declared that these vegetableswere needed in the diet only to supplywater, certain mineral salts, and rough-age. Now, however, it is known that thenewly-found vitamines contained in thesesalad vegetables, and in such roots ascarrots and yellow turnips, and suchvegetable fruits as tomatoes and squash,and also in fresh snap-beans and greenpeas, give pep to the mind and body,make children grow, and keep the systemin good working order. Those who, through poverty, famine, orimprisonment, are unable to get freshvegetables, milk and butter, suffer andeventually die from certain diseases—scurvy, rickets, beri-beri, pellagra, and akind of sore eyes which blinded thousandsof children in war-stricken Europe. CATALOGUE FOR THE SOUTH. VEGETABLESEEDS AND PLANTS ARTICHOKES.
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