The Press., 1917-05-24
LEARN CANNING
 TO AID STATES
 FOOD CAMPAIGN
Four One week Schools to Be Hold at Connecticut Agri-
 cultural College In Juno.
FOR PATRIOTIC WOMEN

After Taking Course They Will Be Able
 to Return to Home Communities and
 Instruct Others-Plan Is to Show
 How to Conserve Seasons Crops With
 Minimum Use of suoar-Why Not
 Attend7
 Canning schools will be conducted all next month at the Connecticut Az ricultural college at StOrrs to provide Connecticut people with knowledge of canning, so that they may return to their homes and then act as instructors to their neighbors. All who desire training in this work may have it. The first school will open Monday, June 4, and one week courses will be opened each Monday morning after that dur ing the month. The first week will be especially for the garden supervisors of the state, and every person in charge of garden work, whether paid or a vol unteer leader, is expected to attend. These people will then return to their home communities and spread the gOs- pei of food conservation. The courses of the following weeks in June will be open to all who wish to attend.
 A special school beginning July 9 will be held for the benefit of home economics teachers and others who will be unable to get away from their work in time to attend the June ses- siOns.
 The cost of taking a weeks work in canning at Storrs will be $7, to cover the expense of board and room. Mate rial for canning will be furnished free, and all equipment will be provided ex- cept that the students must take with them two aprons, two towels, two dish cloths and two holders for ham ding hot cans. At the end of the weeks work opportunity will be given the visitors to buy at actual cost their food canned by them if they so desire.
 To Develop Instructors.
 The object of these schools is pri- marily to teach people the art of can ming so thoroughly that they will be fitted to instruct people in their home communities. It is of course impOssi- ble for the college force to reach through these schools all the people who want instruction in canning, but by making every one of those who at tend capable of instructing others the teaching of the college will reach every part of the state This work is being done by the college in cooperation with the Connecticut Committee of Food Supply.
 In addition to the schools held at the college, demonstrations will be held in all parts of the state. A dem OnstratiOn may be arranged for in any community by applying to the Exten- sion Service at StOrrS.
 Local canning schools of three days duration will be held in the cities in cooperation with the chambers of com. merce, the state college furnishing the teachers and the local organizations furnishing the equipment and the ma. terial to be canned. The dates for these will be announced later Spe- cial instructors have been retained for this work, and members of the faculty will be available for this work at all times.
 With Minimum of Sugar.
 Especial attention will be paid this year to the canning of vegetables and the canning of fruit with the mini- mum amount of sugar. The season for food conservation has already begun. Demands are being received now for directions as to the canning of aspara1 gus. and other vegetables soon will he ready for preservation.
 Those in charge of this movement for food conservation emphasize that every community should send at least one representative to the college tO gain knowledge which may in turn be Dassed on to others.