The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-28
SAVING GARDENS
FOR WINTER FOOD
SUBSTITUTING COTTAGE CHEESE
FOR MEAT AND EATING
CANNED STUFF.
Home Demonstrators Successfully
Teaching Montana Housewives
How to Conserve Food Supply and
Assist Country in Feeding Allies
and Winning War.

Conservation Of the food supply by
substituting cottage cheese for meat,
consuming more vegetables and less
meats, canning surplus fruits and
garden produce, using more of other
cereals than of wheat and cutting
out the waste is being taught Mon
tana house wives by home demon
stration agents in various countries.
So efficient have these demonstra-
tors been that many of the counties
have made arrangements to perman-
emily retain their services and work
in conjunction with the various coun-
ty agents, teaching the housewives
home efficiency while the agriculture
al experts are teaching how to farm
better.
These home demonstl alton agents
go into the homes and show the
women how to make dollar 20
farther than they have ever been
able to make it go in supplying the
family table. At the same time they
give them instruction in various arts
of domestic science such as canning,
preserving, sewing, cutting, design
ing, and home making.
Saving Garden Truck for Winter.
AS a result of the agitation for
home gardens, which was carried on
last spring, in the small towns and
cities especially, unusually large gar
dens were planted. How to save the
produce from the gardens was a seri-
GUS question. The home demonstra-
ton agents have solved it in many
counties and as result Montana
homes go into the winter better
equipped with nourishing food than
ever before.
Just like the old fashioned quilting
bees and sewing circles and corn
husklng bees, canning bees have been
conducted by the young women dem
constructors. New and scientific meth
DDS OF canning and preserving have
been taught. The way to put up
vegetables, fruits, jellies and jams in
the least expensive methods has been
thoroughly explained. The result has
been highly satisfactory.
Heavy Increase in Food Supply.
Saving the gardens for winter con-
has become a problem of
national Importance. America has
been a great garden during the past
summer. 1t is conservative to state
that by the planting of gardens,
where none grew before, the nations
food supply has been increased to the
extent of more than $350,OO0, 900.
According to Charles L. Peck pres
loent OF the National Emergency
ROOD Garden commission, the patriot
lc duty Of every American demands
the conservation of this great OUTPUT
OF food stuffs That all the yege-
tables cannot be eaten as they ma
ture is obvious. They must be wise
~ and jealousy guarded to take the
place of eXportable food. Proven
ton of waste calls for the canning
of food that can be canned or the
Trying of food that can be dried.
Reviving Lost Art in Home.
Here is where the county home
demonstration found a field The art
If food drying was almost lost
science. The art of canning and pre-
serving, so popular in the day of our
grand mothers, had been driven from
he home largely by the big Gamer
es. So there was work to do in
eaching the housewives how to can
md how to dry foods, the various
processes of blanching, cold packings
tic.
A large number of them were ap-