Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-07-16
Demonstration
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Mrs. King Showed Local La
dies How to Preserve Fruit
and Vegetables and Cut
Down High Cost of Living.

and Vegetables and Gu,
Down High Cost of Living
An audience of some sixty-fiye
ladies of Cottonwood and sur
rounding country attended the
fruit canning and preserving
demonstration given here Tues
day afternoon by Mrs. M. E.
King, of Gresham, Ore., demon
strator for the O.-W. R. & N.
company. Mrs. King made the
trip over the prairie line in a
special demonstration car fitted
up by the railway company and
was accompanied by w. R. Skey,
special representative of the
traffic department of the above
road.
Mrs. King. who is a lady some
sixty years of age and has made
a business of fruit canning and
preserving for years, talked very
Interestingly to her lady auditors
for several hours and explained
to the most minute detail how all
classes of fruits and vegetables
can be canned and preserved in
the homes for family consump-
ton during the entire year. She
gave freely from her wide exper-
ience and at the same time well
coined any information along her
line of work from the ladies pres
ent. That much benefit has re-
suited from her visit goes without
saying.
Cottonwood was the twenty
ninth place visited by the de-
monstration car since it left
Portland and its journey was only
half completed. The present
demonstration campaign is in line
with the apple-cooking contest
put on by the O.-W. R. & N.
company last fall and the expense
of the same is being borne by the
railway company without any
thought of financial gain or ulti-
mate return. Being the first to
take up farm demonstration work
and the advocacy of more and
better livestock on the farm, the
president of the above company
finally decided that the house
wives needed instruction and en-
couragement fully as much as did
the farmers and the present de-
monstration is the outgrowth of
this decision. The primary aim
of the demonstration campaign
is to encourage the utilizing and
saving of the vast quantities of
fruit and vegetables which go to
waste yearly in every section of
our country through lack of
knowledge or Indifference in pre-
pairing them for future use. In
stead of having to buy the larger
part of the things we eat and Of
tentimes being compelled to
deny ourselves the nece ssities of
life by reason of the high prices
of such commodities, it is held
that many have within their easy
reach sufficient food products go
ing to waste each year to keep
their families in good shape if
they will only use proper judg-
ment and preserve these products
at a time when they can be easily
secured. Such action, if carried
out in all sections of the country,
will mean a greater frugality
among the people, a largest va
riety of foodstuffs in the home,
more healthful conditions, a larg-
er life and better satisfaction a.
mong our rural population gener-
ally.
The O.-W. R. & N. company is
to be complimented upon its fore
thought and enterprise in foster
ing such demonstrations and Will
eventually reap its just reward in
increased business in its territory
and a greater measure of pros
perity and satisfaction among the
people with whom it has relations