The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07
FARM KITCHEN
EFFECTIVE WORKSHOP
Department of Agriculture Issues Bull
letin Giving Information as to the
Proper Size and Location of This
Feature of the Country Home.

Feature of the Country Home.
! Improvement 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
Bulletin No. 6O7, issued by the U. s.
department of agriculture.
This bulletin, entitled "The Farm
Kitchen as a Workshop" discusses not
merely the proper location Of the kiteh-
en- with reference TO other parts OF the
house, but gives details as to the best
methods of treating its floors and walls,
and gives well tested floor plans for the
step-saving arrangement OF the sink,
stove, table, and other kitchen utilities.
The author of the bulletin, in her in
PRODUCTION, states that small, compact
kitchen saves many steps and much use
less labor in the preparation of food.
This, however, il in homes where the
kitchen is merely workshop, and not
used also as general purpose room
where meals are served and where the
family gathers to enjoy the warmth of
/ sAiN Ht'NN' EVEN MHtit "a iaik ~ hibShNAi
is needed for such purposes, however,
a logical arrangement of its various fea-
lures with relation to each other will
enable 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 individual
preference and local conditions. A kitch
en- which receives the 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 To- |
Gated either in corner of the house t
or in a narrow part where there can be |
windows on opposite sides. 1t is well, /
also, to locate the kitchen 80 that clouds |
of dust may not be blown in from the /
road and it is of even greater impor
tance that the kitchen be SO located with
reference to barns and other outbuild-
ings that the prevailing winds will not
bring unpleasant odors or flies from
them.
In many farm houses very large
kitchen is provided, because it must
handle the unusual cooking for harvest
hands. The writer points out that II
will be better to provide temporary
shed or kitchen on the porch, with oil
stoves or other cooking devices, to han
die this unusual rush and thus allow
the housekeeper to have a smaller kitch-
EN- during the rest OF the year.
The size of the kitchen, unless a large
pantry or a store room is provided il
also governed somewhat by the amount
nF syry,1iaG tnbtn - |
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 arranging the pantry, however, espe.
sially if it be between the kitchen and
dining room, care should be used not TO
make it too large, as a long passageway
between these two rooms adds neces.
'arily to the labor of the woman.
The kitchen. the writer finds. should
pe so located that it will be especially
to the pantry, dining room,
tore room. cellar and woodshed. At the :
anne time, access TO other parts Of the
louse should be easy from the kitchen
lthough, as the writer points out il is I
Unfortunate il the kitchen is made the T
principal entryway 10 the house. She {
urges that il be on the same =
eyel with the pantry and dining room, .
S steps, even if only one or two mean
he extra work of lifting and lowering
he body up and down them many times
day and lead inevitably 10 greater
reakage OF crockery The bulletin is G
cry specific in condemning kitchens in 6
asements II very emphatically urges /
hat general traffic through the kitchen s
e reduced as much as possible, and es. Il
ecially that il ~ not made a place q
here outer clothing and hats are hung u
For reasons Of general convenience i
30, the refrigerator should be- on the :,
ame level as the kitchen. Similarly, :
,r much the same reason, the writer
rces that the refrigerator or icebox be .
, arranged that il can be filed from u
itside II the rear opening Of the ice- u
Ok Is tightly Joined TO the opening IN u
ie wall Of tho house. and this opening Ct
screened with strong wire netting, the Ct
,ck OF the iccbox can bc left open in a
inter and the food kept IN cold air a
ithout chilling the rest Of the house
The floors. walls and ceilings should
I'VE a plain SUFFICE and ~ free from
AekSs ridges, mouldlngr, or uther raised
namcnts which catch dust and Dirt 4
e difficult 70 keep clean and afford v
Irboring places for insects. Walif GOV ~
ed with washable paint or washable CT
an paper are easicr % clean than those 81
mply tinted. though the latter can b. b
adily renewed. Light colors are pft IA
rable. rrceuish rrays boing desirable al
the exposure j. toward tAc south and a.
~ vellous or creams 81 the kitchen !,
{ - light principally from the north -
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0f c1ursc tilinr N vitrifed brick Or =
5taIiie filing are better than paint =
Il. q wall rnper. which have Is be
1ewed but these are more expensive
here the walls are painted = betts
rfacr recruits when n coat Is supplied
err wear ~ two than when several
as are applied NJ once 4 final coat
enamel paint or outside raruish e
sirahln for woodwork that needs clean.
Z freruentlv The ceiling NAV - ~
ed Wifh whitfrnsl or one 81 the COM