The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-08-02
HOME CANNING
IS ENCOURAGED
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY WORKING ON A
GREAT PLAN in THE NORTH
T. w. Potter, State Club Supervisor,
Now in Moscow Arranging for Car
rying ON Work in Latah County

The university agricultural exten-
sion department is doing some effective
work for Idaho in cooperating with
the U. S. department of agriculture and
state educational department in supe :
vising boys and girls clubs, the junior
extension work as it is sometimes
called, according to T. w. Potter OF
Boise, state club supervisor, who IS
in the city today.
''The school today that is sticking
=, to books,'' said Mr.. Potter, "and mere
ing is many years behind the times.
1t must get out of the old rut, or be
pushed out. Practical education along
agricultural and industrial lines is
very necessary and essential and t
university extension is lending every
effort to the county superintendent
and teachers of Idaho to do some good
practical work through its boys and
girls clubs.
"The club projects are: Sewing,
cooking, canning fruits and vegetables
potato culture, corn culture, pork pro-
ductiOn, poultry, garden and back
yard, farm and home, handicraft
clubs
Mr.. Potter is spending this week in
Latah county to help the county SUI
perintendent, Miss Dryden, and. MI.
Ezra Fjeldsted, the assistant field
agent, especially in the canning club
work, organizing mother daughter.
home canning clubs, and conducting
practical demonstrations in canning
vegetables and fruits by the Cold
Pack Method, which the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture and the university
extension so strongly recommend.
1--WE will be delighted to visit any
community interested In the canning
of vegetables, fruits, and meats and
will demonstrate how to do the work,
such other equipment as every kitchen
possess" said MIR. Potter today. |
"The extension department desires to
help out every home in Idaho if that |
home will open its doors and let us
in. At our meetings, mothers and
daughters are enrolled in the can
ming club. Bulletins from Washing
ton, our state university and agricul
tural extension department are mailed
to all club members, so that they may
continue to read, study, practice, and
improve. Records are also kept show
ing amount of products canned, esti
mated cost, and value of the same.
1--WE are urging the canning of
greens, such as beet tops, Swiss
Chard, spinach. They can be so cas-
lily canned and such healthy food for
both young and old, and are SO plenti-
ful in nearly every garden; likewise
peas, beans, corn, beets, and many
)ther things.
Idaho imported four-fifths of the
canned goods used last year and al
owed hundreds of tons of vegetables
ind fruits to go to waste. We get [
,anned corn from Maine, peaches and !
omatoes from Maryland. The extern I
ion department is striving hard to !
hange that undesirable condition by ]
organizing hundreds and thousands of &
he mother and daughter of Idaho in ]
0 canning clubs SO that the prod f
cts of the garden, orchard, and farm
yill not be wasted \
"One hundred of the Lewiston moth /
RS and daughters formed a canning ]
lub last week and other strong clubs j
yere organized wherever we went. h
his mother-d daughter club has only T
cen in operation since June 18th. To- v
ay we have over 1000 members en-
oiled, all active workers. 1t is GER t
iinly encouraging to see the wonder d
IL interest shown throughout the Fl
hole state Idaho is surely ripe for
lis work