The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-08
FOOD TRAINING CAMP
AT STATE FAIR URGED
LE.I. Enighi Tenders Use aI Grounds is
Government During tAs War

The State Fair Of Texas, to be held
Oct. 1923, has rendered its services
10 President Wilson as a food train
ing camp, to assist the Government IN
its efforts to increase crop production
and reduce the waste of food, which Is
known to be enormous.
sour directors offer the services Of
our fair as a food training camp"
wrote President r. r. L. knight Of the
State Fair of Texas, in part, to Presi-
dent Wilson. Military training
camps are bein gestablished every
where in the country, where men in
increments Of half a million each
are to be taught the principles of mili-
tary tactics. However, as you have
pointed out many times, there is just
as much responsibility for the success
full prosecution of the war resting
upon the shoulders of the 100,000000
persons in private life as there is upon
the men who are called to the colors,
for it is essential that working Ameri-
ca labors hard to furnish our allies
with food and clothing.
"The men whom you are calling into
service are being concentrated in CEN
trail military training camps, because
it is found to be much more efficient
to train them in that way than by es-
tablishng camps III every little town
or village. Ii 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. It 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 lull
following the harvest season wonder
fully efficient instruction in food pro-
ductiop and conservation could be
given.
To Raise More Live Stock.
"To make this food training camp
unusually instructive, an effort is be-
ing made to induce breeders Of pure
bred live stock to exhibit in larger
numbers of such type and breeds as
will assist the Nation in meeting the
demand for more meat, milk, butter.
cheese, leather, wool and horse power.
Manufacturers of farm machinery are
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latest models and improvements, that
farmers may learn how to produce
maximum crop at a minimum effort.
All the territory tributary to our fair
is being secured to find superior speci-
mems Of the varieties Of grain, vege-
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. na
"Since 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 local repu-
tation, to instruct wives and mothers
now to prepare and conserve food,
and check the extravagent waste Of
food, for which our country is con-
demned in every other country in the
world. In an effort to enlist the chill
dren in the cause of food produC ION,
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 DOaru OF directors sincerely
trusts that the National Government, I
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-
plishing 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"