The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-05-18
STATE FAIR TO
help COUNTRY
Will Be "FOOd- Training Camp
To Instruct Farmers in
Raising Crops
CONSERVATION OF FOOD IS URGED
Effort Will Be Made to Increase the
Production - Instruction to
Be Given at the Fair
BY Experts

w NC ASAN oNPNSAhDNA 6H"SOe sAAs~o wa
dered its services as STOOD training
camp" to President Wilson, to assist
the government in it's efforts to in
crease crop production and reduce the
waste of food, which is known to be
enormous.
"Our fair board offers the services
of our fair as food training camp"
wrote Secretary R. S. Skinner in part
to the president. military training
camps are being established every
where in the country where men in
increments of half a million each are
to be taught the principles of mill
tary tactics. However, as you have
pointed out many times, there is just
as much responsibility for the sue
cessful prosecution of the war rest
ing upon the shoulders of the 100000
900 persons in private life as there is
upon the men who are called to the
colors, for if working America does
not labor hard to furnish our Allies
with food and clothing the war
cannot be won.
"The men whom you are calling into
service are being concentrated in CEN
trail military training camps, because
it is found to be much more efficient
to train them that way than by estab-
fishing camps in every little town or
village. 1t appeals to the managers
Of our fair that there is just as much
necessity for calling the great rank
and file of food producers and food
users into central food training camps
for a short course in the more eff
cient methods of food production and
food conservation. 1t could hardly be
done now, for the nation is working
hard to care for crop already planted
but if we could hold such food train.
ing camp during the lull following
the harvest season, wonderfully eff
cient instruction in food production
and conservation could be given.
''To make the food training camp
unusually instructive, an effort is be-
ing made to induce breeders of pure
bred live stock to exhibit in larger
numbers than ever, that farmers may
be stimulated to buy and raise foun-
dation stock of such types and breeds
as will assist the nation in meeting
the demand for more meat, milk, but
ter, cheese, leather, wool and horse
power. Manufacturers of farm ma
chinery are being urged to exhibit all
Of their latest models and improve
ments, that farmers may learn how
to produce a maximum crop at min
imum effort. All the territory tribu-
tary to our fair is being secured to
find superior specimens of the vari-
eties of grains, vegetables, fruits, for
age crops and corn best suited to our
soil and climate, that encouragement
may be given to the production of
as much of these crops as possible.
"Since the economical use of food
is of just as much Importance as the
production of food, our women's de-
artment is to offer a series of de-
monstration and lectures by food
specialists of national and local repu-
tation, to instruct wives and mothers
how to prepare and conserve food,
and check the eXtravagant waste of
food for which our country is con-
demned in every other country in the
world. In an effort to enlist the
children in the cause of food produc-