The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-08-15
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.

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 cam
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
prises. Within a year it has passed
the experimental stage and has become
an established Institution. Reports
from 81 kitchens in widely scattered
sections of the United States record
the saving of 205.537 quarts of fruits
and vegetables in 1917.
The kitchens have been organized
and financed in various ways. Expcn-
scs have been taken care of by school
boards, boards of trade, business mems
associations, local committees of the
council of national defense. leans from
banks or from individuals, gifts from
individuals and membership fees.
Some of the kitchens are mainly edu-
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 aH
well as giving instruction and helping
individuals. The most complete type
however. Is the all-the-year Kitchen
real community center-which com.
bines with the other textures the snie
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 a small New York viii
lage last summer. The equipment,
which cost less than 800, included a
drier. a sterilizer, an oil stove, a tin
charcoal stove and cnpping and tip
ping irons. The whole community CO
operated IN making the center a sue
cess-a local firm allowed wholesale
prices on tin cans, grocers donated sur
plus pcrlshable 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 be able to give their serv-
ices In this way.
City community canneries have han.
died large quantities. Of products from
markets and school gardens. In Salt
Lake City the cannery was placed In
the market house. This made II possi-
ble for women to buy their fruit and
vegetables In the market and can
them at the center while still perfectly
fresh.
A municipal kitchen was established
In New Orleans, La. last August,
where groups of housekeepers, bakers,
hotel men anG grocerymen made ex-
periments In substitute breads and dis
cussed methods of food conservation.
From this idea war Kitchens have been
equipped In TS OF the southern cities,
and women of small towns and county
seafs reading OF the work being carried
on In these centers are equipping kitch-
ems In court houses, school houses and
various public buildings. In Arkansas
and mississippi home-demonstrnu0n
Kitchens are nt work In more thnn half
the counties In each state.