The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-26
FOOD TRAINING CAMP
AT STATE FAIR URGED
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6o'srnsal During ias Hsf

The State Fair Of Texas, 70 be held
Oct 1928. has rendered its services
10 president Wilson Us a food trains
lag camp. 10 assist the Government sn
III efforts To increase crop production
and reduce the waste Of feed which ~
known % be enormous.
"Osr directors offer the services Of
our fair as a food training camp,
wrote President X. f. /. knight Of the
State Fair Of Texas. in part, TO Preai-
dent Wilson. Military training
camps are bein gestabiished every
where ia toe country. where men ln
lncrements Of half a minion each
are % be taught lie principles u miii-
tary tactics However, as you have
pointed out many times, there is just
as much responsibility for the success
ful prosecution OF the war resting
upon the shoulders Of the 00,000.0OO
persons IN private life as there is upon
the men who are called TO the coiors,
for it is essential that working Aneri-
ca labors hard to furnish cur allies
with food and clothing
"Ihe men whom you are ealing into
service are being concentrated Ia cen-
tral military training camps because
it is found TO be much more efficient
to train them in that way than by es-
tablishng camps in every little town
or village 1t appeals to the directors
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 effic-
lent methods Of food production and
food conservation. II could hardly be
done now, for the Nation is working
hard to care for the crop already
planted, but if we could hold such a
food training camp during the hui
following the harvest season wonder
fully efficient instruction in food pro-
duction and conservation could be
given
To Raise More Live Stock
"To make this food training camp
unusually instructive. an effort is he-
| ing made to induce breeders of pure
bred live stock 10 exhibit IN larger
numbers Of such type and breeds as
viii assist the Nation IN meeting the
demand for more meat, milk, butter
cheese, leather, wool and horse power.
+ Manufacturers Of farm machinery are
being urged to exhibit all of their
I latest models and improvements, that
/ farmers may learn how TO produce a
maximum crop at minimum effort.
I All the territory tributary to our fair
I is being secured to find superior speci-
mems Of the varieties Of grain yege-
/ tables, fruits forage 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
"Sinee the economical use of food is
/ Of Just as much Importance as the
+ production Of food, our woman's de-
/ partment is to offer a series OF dem
onstrations and lecturers by food
specialists Of national and loea repu-
| tatiOn, to instruct wives ana mothers
/ bow to prepare and conserve food,
and check the extravagent waste Of
( food. for which our country is con-
/ demned in every other country in tile
world. In an effort to enlist the ch.l-
dren in the cause of food production,
the work Of children in the schools
and fields is to be exhibited an dem
onstrations Of interest to children are
to be conducted
"Our board Of directors sincerely
trusts that the National Government,
mindful Of the good which can be done
at such a food training school, Will
operate to the fullest extent in fur
nishing lecturers, demonstration and
exhibits, to assist the fair in accom-
piishing the mission it has under
taken There could be no better way
Of reaching the people in this terri
tory with Government propaganda
for the increased production and con
servation Of food