Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-30

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 30.-Im-
provement in the arrangement of the
farm kitchen will result in saving the
energies of some 100000 people and
make their work less heavy and more
enjoyable, according to farmers bull
letin No. COZ, issued by the U. S. de-
partment of agriculture.
This bulletin, entitled "The Farm
Kitchen as Workshop" discusses not
merely the proper location of the
kitchen with reference to other parts
of the house, but gives details as to
the best methods of treating it's floors
and walls, and gives we'll tested food
plans for the step-saving arrangement
of the sink, stove, table and other
kitchen utilities.
The author of the bulletin, in her
introduction, states that small COM
pact kitchen saves many steps and
much useless labor in the prepare
ton of food. This, however, is in
homes where the kitchen is merely
workshop, and not used also as a gen.
eral purpose room where meals are
served and where the family gathers
to enjoy the warmth of the stove. Ev-
en- where a large kitchen is needed
for such purposes, however, a logical
arrangement of it's various features
with relations to each other will en-
able the housewife to do her work
much more efficiently.
Whether the chief exposure of the
kitchen shall be north, east, south or
west, is a matter governed by indi-
vidual preference and local conditions.
A kitchen which receives morning
light is usually desirable. Effort
should be made, however, to secure
light from two directions and cross
ventilation. For this purpose, the
kitchen should be located either in a
corner of the house or in narrow
part, where there can be windows on
opposite sides. 1t is also we'll to To-
cate the kitchen so that clouds of
dust may not be blown in from the
road, and it is of even greater inn
portance that the kitchen be so locat-
ed with reference to barns and other
outbuildings that the prevailing winds
will not bring unpleasant doors or
flies from them.
In many farm houses a very large
kitchen is provided, because it must
handle the unusual cooking for har-
vest hands. The writer points out that
it will be better to provide a tempo
rary shed or a kitchen on the porch,
with oil stoves or other cooking de-
vices, to handle this unusual rush and
thus allow the housekeeper to have a
smaller kitchen during the rest of the
year.
The size of the kitchen, unless a
large pantry or a storeroom is pro-
cided, is also governed somewhat by
the amount of supplies which must be
stored. In the case of farm distant
from town, supplies necessarily must
be bought in bulk and need sufficient
storage space. In such cases, it is
sometimes wise to provide an extra
pantry or storage room. In arrang-
ing the pantry, however, especially if
it be between the kitchen and din
ing room, care should be used not to
make it too large, as long passage
way between these two rooms adds
necessarily to the labor of the wo-
men.
The kitchen, the writer finds, should
be located that it will be especially
convenient to the pantry, dining room,
store room, cellar and wood shed. At
the same time, access to other parts of
the house should be easy from the
kitchen, although as the writer points