By the summer of 1943 in Chicago and in Lake Forest wartime food rationing was well established, with the first ration cards for sugar having been given out in schools in May, 1942. The strict limits on foods from standard channels quickly led to victory gardens, people raising their own vegetables and smaller animals (chickens, lambs, etc.) for food and keeping cows where possible for dairy products. This article a year later gtries to put the rationing issue into perspective, with some ciriticism of government policies about price controls, etc. from the perspective of the publishers of this periodical, the Friends of the Land.     

Citation: 

Myers, William I., "The Food Situation," The Land, A Quarterly Magazine (Vol. III, No. 1, Summer 1943), 27-32.