The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-03

funds that we can pay.
But it is CO. operation that helps us
win the day.
It amt the individual or army as a
whole
But it's the everlasting team work OF
every blooming soul"
And 1t is through cooperation with
Mrs. Clara A. Bush, home demonstra-
ton agent of Missoula county. that the
women are going to be enabled to do
their "bit" in winning the day. Mrs.
Bush is here not to work Tor the
women but to work with them.
Must Leave Soon.
Mrs. Bush was assigned to Missoula
county last spring for emergency
work. She must give up here work
after this month unless county aid is
secured, for the appropriation whicn
made possible her service mere VIII
soon be exhausted. Miss Bess Rowe
OF the state college Is cndeavoring 10
secure the county's cooperation IN
order that Mrs. Bush may stay.
Just like the old fashioned quilting
"bees' and corn husking bees can
Bush in the schoolhouses at Glavier
View. Mud creek, Moiese valley and
Leon last week. The farmers women
folks"-and in one case a farmer HIM
self-came from miles around with
their vegetables and chickens to spend
the day and can with Mrs. Bush.
Man Learns to Can.
Mrs. Bush declares that the men
have displayed great interest in her
work but that this one farmer, during
her week in the Flathead valley, came
with his housekeeper, who could not
speak English, to the schoolhouse and
eyinced great interest in the processes
OF "blanching," cold packing and
other canning mysteries. He hadn't
been able ito make head nor tall OF,
of the canning manual but by his eX-
CARNATIONS of mot so?" as he checked
up each process performed by Mrs
Bush with the directions in the man
ual, he displayed an understanding o
such matters that rivaled that OF the
women.
Wash boilers and pancake turner's
Just like regular folks" have, wer
used by Mrs. Bush when she canned
with the women.
Made eandages in Intervals.
At the canning bees no time wa
lost even while the food was in tn
cookers for the women rolled bandage
and did other patriotic work Will
waiting for them to cook, which wa
four or five hours in some cases. A
entire day was spent at each school
house.
America today is u vast garden.
is conservative to state that by tn
planting of gardens where none grey
before the nations food supply Ina
been increased to the extent of NOR
than ss5o,ooo,oOo. According
Charles L. Pack, president of the Ma
tional Emergency Food Garden com
mission, the patriotic duty of ever
American demands the conservation c
this great output of foodstuffs. Tha
the vegetables cannot be eaten as the
nature is obvious. They must b
wisely utilized and jealousy guarde
to take the place of eXportable food
Prevention of waste calls for the can
ming of all food that can be canned, c
the drying of all food that can b
dried.
Mrs. Bush, who was the first woma
to work in the state as a regula
county home demonstration agent, ha
been working in cooperation wit
County Agriculturist J. r. Campbell
instructing the women of Missoul
county on the home economy side {
the food conservation problem.
Mrs. Bush will not have outstayo
her usefulness in Missoula count
when the preserving season Is over
and she is going to stay after tha
time-because we will still be cor
fronted by the problem of conserva
ton.
IF we are going to advocate sui
shutting cottage cheese for meat, W
must tell the housewives how to {
about it. declared Missoula county
practical little MIR. Hoover" TT
going to be my duty 10 show II
women. by concrete example rath,
than theoretically. how TO work o,
the problems of substitution and Il
many others arising in the matter
food conservation"