The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-04-26
BE PREPARED
WITH PLENTY
OF FOODSTUFFS
Experts from State College Give
Suggestions for Raising and
Preserving Garden Truck
DEMONSTRATION TRAIN RUN
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Urges Planting of Beans and
Raising of Pork

The food preparedness campaign
being conducted jointly by the Union
Pacific Railway System and the WASH
ington State College was carried to
Kennewick this week. Experts from
the state college gave interesting and
instructive lectures and demonstra-
tions on gardening, poultry raising,
canning and domestic science work.
The general plan Of the campaign
was outlined by Prof. L. Hegnauer
crop and soil expert. Prof. r. J. Bar
nett gave several interesting talks on
vegetable growing and kitchen gar
dening, while home canning, domestic
science and poultry raising were pre-
sented by Miss Mary e. Sutherland
and Mrs. Helen ID. Whitaker.
Miss Sutherland emphasized the ne
cessity for the home preservation of
every possible article of food this year
because Of the shortage Of tin which
may decrease the commercial canning
of fruits and vegetables, and also be-
cause of the likelihood of high prices.
Mrs. Whitaker, in her poultry talks,
gave some interesting facts on incu-
baton.
She stated that one authority had
estimated that only IL eggs out Of
100 are successfully Matched in incu-
bators in the Northwest and told how
many farmers had incubators stored
away because the owners did not have
success with them for the reason that
they did not study their book of in
and follow the directions.
She explained that incubation was
not success usually because the
wrong kind of eggs were used in the
first place. She said eggs should not
be kept more than 10 days before be-
ing started in the incubator and should
be kept in a temperature Of at least
55 degrees and not more than 72 de-
grees while waiting to be placed in
The incubator. She said another rea-
son for poor success was that the in
,ubator was not well regulated before
using and that the manufacturer of the
Incubator gave the best instructions
as to the regulation Of heat.
She urged that each school secure
an incubator and the children be given
Instructions in its use, stating how
several schools had done so and how
Interested the youngsters became.
In charge of the train here were
William McMurray, general passenger
agent of the o-W. r. & N. at Port
and and c. F. vanDewater, travelling
freight and passenger agent of North
In the general food preparedness
being conducted in the state,
Commissioner Of Agriculture e. f.
Benson has offered the following sug-
yestions:
Now is the planting time. Within
The next thirty days we will put into
the ground the seed that will deter
mine whether everyone has plenty of
food for this winter or not. The selfish
interest Of each of us is to produce as
much as possible Of the food that we
and our dependents will require. That
applies to the city, where our resources
are limited to the backyard, and in the
country as well. This is the safe thing
1t time like this. Produce just as
much as you can Of the things that you
need for yourself. Then take your
surplus ground and produce food
staples. For the man with large
acreage that means food cereals. To
The man with few acres, it means
other crops. To many that will mean
potatoes.
Seed potatoes are now unreasonably
nigh. The rule in previous years has
been that when potato seed is high,
everybody plants more than usual and
5he prices drop at harvest time.
We may need more potatoes this
year than ever before. Owing TO the
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