The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-16
COMMUNITY WAR
 KITCHENS LIKED
Spring Up Around Country Like Mushrooms to Meet Sud-
 den Need for Food.
AID IN CONSERVATION PLANS
Women Meet In Groups to Can and Dry and Learn Best Methods of Saving --Home Demonstration Agents
 Supervise.


 Supervise.
 War emergency kitchens of all sorts l and descriptions have sprung up over the country like mushrooms to meet the sudden need for community food centers. They are places where definite information and instruction may be given to help women In their conservation problems and where can hing drying and war cooking may be demonstrated and put into practice. The canning kitchen Is the most com | mon of the new community enter prises. Within a year it has passed the experimental stage and has become m established Institution. Reports | from 5l kitchens in widely scattered sections of the United States record the saving of 205,527 quarts of fruits 1 aud vegetables in 1917.
 The kitchens have been organized and financed in various ways Expen. ses have been taken care of by school boards, boards of trade, business men s associations, local committees of the council of national defense, loans from banks or from individuals, gifts from l individuals and membership fees. Some of the kitchens are mainly edu- cational and to them the woman brings her own materials to can or dry under supervision. A few take care or surplus or donated products only. Another type combines both phases of the work, canning donated surplus as well as giving instruction and helping individuals. The most complete type however Is the all-the-year kitchen n real community center-which com bines with the other features the sale Of cooked foods and an exchange for the sale of homemade products. Work in Grange Kitchen. A Grange kitchen housed one can ming center in n small New York vIl- l age last summer. The equipment. which cost less than $l00, included d drier, a sterIllzer, an oil stove. tin charcoal stove and cnpping and tip ping irons The whole community CO., operated in making the center a sue
 
 prices on tin cans. grocerS donated sur olus prriShahle products and the will age cbiidrcr gathered mucL of the pro. lucc During the rush season. peas nd be0us were sent t0 elderly women vho could nct leave home. They pre- ared the vegetables for canning and were glad to be able to give their serv- ceS in this way.
 City community cannerics have han lied large quantities of products from markets and school gardens. In Salt Lake City the cannery was placed in he market house. This made it possi- 'le for women to buy their fruit and egctables in the market and can hem at the center while stilAperfectly 'resh.
 A municipal kitchen was established in New Orleans, La, last August, where groups of housekeepcrs. bakers. iotel mon and grocerymen made ex- 1erimeuts in substitute breads and dis uSsed methods of food conservation. From this idea war kitchens have been 'quipped in 7S of the southern cities. 'nd women of small towns and county Seats reading of the work being cnrried 'n in thesr centers are equipping kitch- l n- In court houses. school houses and ariou> public buildings In Arkansas and Mississippi home-deinonstration kitchens are at work in more than half the counties In each state.
 While drying was something of an experiment. last ycnr. several commu nity drying plants were established and l this summer finds this branch enlarged. | sidiiy of tine cunning kitchens which i had no drying facilities before have | installed differs. and it is expected that | the returns in dried products will show !! large increase over those Of last sum mer.
 home-demonstration agents md | iFaders in boys and girls club work | of the United States department of | agriculture and the state agric,Iturel !. colleges have been active in the work | of these kitchens in many cases super Flsing the enterprises and taking | charge of the demonstrations.
 Appeal to Foreign Born,
 Several kitchens for cooked food |! were started In cities last winter by urban home-delnonstraton agents. | Most of them are located in the poorer | sections. where they reach a large num- Der of foreign-born people. Soup and |