The Arvada enterprise., 1918-08-01
Community war
KITCHENS LIKED
Spring Up Around Country Like
Mushrooms to Meet Sud-
den Need for Food.
m N CONSERVATION PLANS
Women Nest In Groups to Can and Dry
md Learn Best Methods Of Saving
Home Demonstration Agents
Supervise.

War emergency kitchens of all sorts
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
ming, drying and war cooking may be
demonstrated and put into practice.
The canning kitchen Is the most COM
mon Of the new community enter
ptises. Within year 1t has passed
tho experimental stage and has become
an established institution. Reports
from 81 kitchens in widely scattered
sections Of the United States record
the saving Of 205, ,527 quarts Of fruits
and 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 mems
associations, local committees Of the
council Of national defense. loans from
banks or from individuals, gifts from
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
Of surplus or donated products only.
Another type combines both phases Of
the work, canning donated surplus a.
we'll a. giving instruction and helping
individuals. The most complete type.
however. Is the all.the-year kitchen
Q 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 Orange Kitchen.
A Grange kitchen housed one can
ming center In a small New York vii
lage last summer. The equipment,
which cost less than 800. included q
drier. . stertllxer. an oil stove. . tin
charcoal stove and capping and tip
ping irons. The whole community CO.
operated in making the center q sue
csss-a local nrm allowed Wholesale
prices on tin cans, grocers donated sur
plus perishable products and the VII
lage children gathered much Of the pro-
duce. During the rush season. peas
and beans were sent to elderly women
who could not leave home. They pre-
pared the vegetables for canning and
were glad to b able to give their serv.
Ices In this way.
City community canneries have han
died large quantities Of prcductM from
markets and school gardens. In Salt
Lake City the cnnnery was placed 10
ths market house. This made It possi-
bic 70, women to buy their fruit and
vegetables In the market and can
them at the center while still perfectly
Aesh.
4 municipal kitchen was established
In New Orleans. La, last August,
VAsrs groups Of housekeepers. bakers
hotel men and grocerymen made ex'
pssimsnts in substitute breads and dis
cusssd methods Of food conservation.
Prom this Idea war Kitchens have been
equipped In 78 Of the southern cides'
ana women Of small towns and county
seats reading Of the work being carried
a In these csnters arc equippins kitch.
sns n court houses. school houses and
various public buildings. In Arkansas
and Mississippi home-demonstndon
Kitchens are at work In more than haIl
~ eountieS In each state.