The current high interest in gardening for "social isolation" hobby and/or economic hedge might make it more interesting to record these World War I era pamphlets. Of course, they are also of historical interest to people who are studying the history of agriculture or home gardening, or the WWI home front effort.
I find Google Book downloads harder to manage (as linked above), but I checked and many of the suggested titles are also available from Internet Archive. Published 1917 through 1919 and US government docs makes them solidly public domain. Here are the links to the IA versions:
War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables (as War Gardening and Home Storage of Vegetables)
https://archive.org/details/wargardeninghome01nati/mode/2up
This is a 32 page booklet but very dense and packed with info. Would make a good short solo or group project, or some of the sections could be broken out as pieces for short nonfiction collections.
The war garden guyed
https://archive.org/details/wargardenguyed01nati/page/n1/mode/2up
This one looks more like propaganda/entertainment with humorous pieces, poems and songs and lots of illustrations and cartoons. There's even a song/poem written by Upton Sinclair called "Canning the Kaiser"! 30-page booklet, probably best as a source for short pieces, would be ideal for a coffee break collection on gardening or WWI...
Food drying progress and importance
https://archive.org/details/fooddryingprogre00nati/mode/2up
This is a 26-page pamphlet and is also very dense, including instructions for drying fruits and vegetables (pre countertop electric dehydrator era!) as a homestead or community project, as well as instructions and recipes for using dried fruits and veggies. Could be short group or solo project, or have sections done as pieces for short works collections.
Home canning & drying of vegetables & fruits
https://archive.org/details/homecanningdryin01nati/page/n1/mode/2up
Another 32-page booklet, packed with lots of info and illustrations. At a quick skim it looks like it might duplicate some of the material from the Food Drying Progress booklet. I kind of love the title of the introduction by Charles Pack, President of the US War Garden Commission: "Back Up the Cannon By Use of the Canner"! Short solo or group project, or sections could be done as pieces for short nonfiction collections.
Raking the gardener and canning the canner
I didn't find this one on Internet Archive.
Also possibly of interest, the head of the War Garden Commission, Charles L. Pack, already has a couple of pieces recorded at Librivox, though they do not appear to be parts of these wartime booklets. Here's his Librivox page:
https://librivox.org/author/11376?primary_key=11376&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results
Colleen
