The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-06
Country Women of Kansas Let
Nothing Go to Waste.
Exhibits at Fairs Show Great
Work They Are Doing.
GOVERNOR SEES RESULTS
Exhibits at Hartford and Bur-
lingame Surprising.
Nothing Raised on Farm. AL
lowed To Spoil Now.

Town women behind the Hoover
izing organizations should make a trip
to the country town IairS and the
rural districts before issuing bulletins
on how to save the groceries" Farm
ers wives and daughters are sending
canned goods exhibits to the fairs this
year that simply knock the spots off
the seven coIored illustrations of con-
servation and economy as issued for
the uplift of the rural communities,
In 260-mile trip with Governor
Capper to fairs in Lyon, Coffey and
WoOdson counties Friday, a State
Journal reported saw more first hand
illustrations of conservation of the
nations food supply than are contain
ed in the Win-the-War bulletins.
Probably the exhibits were owned by
a limited number of women. Yet the
variety and offering indicated the
farmers wives must have stayed up
nights running community canning
factories. There may be a shortage
of canned goods in some localities, but
the shortage doesn't seem due to affect
the rural districts.
At Hartford Fair.
At a fair in Hartford, almost every
fruit and vegetable grown in Kansas
was canned and on exhibition. Nor
was it san evidence of careless,
thoughtless canning. The work looked
like it had come from a down east
over the shop and mixed with the
sealing wax. If anything went to
waste in the Hartford district, it was
outside the jurisdiction of the women
who attended the Hartford fair. They
won prizes and coupons and ribbons
and badges for canned fruits and
vegetables and an assortment of Jel-
lies and jams that could not be dupll-
Gated in a Topeka store. Everything
from the abused ounce and humble
string bean to the exalted pear and
peach were canned in Kansas in
Wholesale lots this year.
The Coffey county fair at Burling-
ton is showing enough canned fruit to
give the national army a Christmas
banquet. There is scarcely a crop
grown in the Neosho valley that
hasn't been placed in a can, sealed
and stored away for future use by the
women who are giving daily demon
strations of real food conservation.
WoodsOn County Saves.
In Woodson county the conserva-
ton plan has developed from a habit
stage to a contagious disease. Even
the school children work at it A
! county school picnic brought hun
dreds of youngsters to Yates Center
with an assortment of exhibits that
should put the fear of the future in
the heart of Kaiser William. Yates
Center never saw such a show as is
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and girls from the county grade
schools And they are in line in the
conservation campaign and reporting
something more than progress They
simply filled a stock pavilion with
evidences of their handiwork
Hartford stopped her fair long
enough to provide a right from the
farm dinner. A group of political re7
porters who went with Governor Cap
, per to discuss the Situation with the
leaders at home, wanted to abandon
| the trip and camp with the cooked
| food. 1t was that dinner which gave
practical farm conservation the only
jolt. But maybe the dinner was an
evidence of increased production,
wherein the Kansas farmer will win
the war on a full stomach
Conservation as preached in the
towns IS one thing But the food is
really being stacked away bv the
women who live in the outlying pre-
cincts.