Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-06
Canning Experts Have Gone to France
To Instruct Domestic Science Teacher:

for France, it had on board four
canning and drying missionaries to
the French. They are missionaries
in that they will carry the message.
of home preservation of food to
country which now does practically
no canning at home. There it is a
job for factories.
1t is a cooperative enterprise, the
parties to it being the American COM.
mission for devastated France, the
French ministry of agriculture and
and the United States department of
agriculture, through the French high
commission to Secretary of Agricul-
ture Houston, requesting the loan of
some home demonstration workers
who were experts in canning Two
home demonstration agents in the.
French regions Of Louisiana were Sc
he'd Saturday, and started for Wash
ington Monday. They are Miss Erin
Dore, of Crowley, Acadia parish. and
Miss Caroline A. BoudreauX, of Scott,
Lafayette Parish. With them goes
Mrs. Bernice Carter Davis, formerly
state home demonstration agent for
Texas, and DR.. Frants p. Lund; can
ming and drying expert in the office
of extension work, south, department
of agriculture.
No Canning Done
But the real beginning Of the prof.
eCt is a long way back of the cable
gram from the French minister of
agriculture to the American secretary
of agriculture. Last fall Mrs. Bernice
Carter Davis, one of the members of
/ the party of four; was in France for
the American commission for deVaS-
tated France. She discovered that
practically no home canning is done,
that practically all canned products
are put up in commercial canneries,
She found that the ministry of agri-
culture was interested in home DEM
onstration work done in the United
States by the department of agricul-
lsture and state colleges. She talked
home canning with officials of the
ministry. Then she came home and.
tallkedsit with the American commits
sion for devastated France.
The commission then made the Of
/" fer to the French government. to fl
| nance the project of sending party
of canning experts to France, the
| French government to arrange itin
eraries and all details of that kind
and the United States department of
agriculture to lend the workers.
The party left Washington with a
full canning entertainments
full sets of equipment, in fact. There
was taken, Also some canning ex-
hibits, a number of reels of motion
pictures of canning work in the south
! J
plete course of instruction in can
ming vegetables, fruits and meats in
the home. A number of American
manufacturers made contributions of
both tin cans. and glass jars and Of
various kinds of equipment. The de-
|. partment of agriculture has prepar-
| ed the material for bulletin on can
ming. to be issued by the FRENCH gov
ernment.
will Instruct Teachers
These four American experts are
| not undertaking to teach canning di-
| rectly to the housewives of France.
/ When they arrive the ministry of ag-
| riculture will have assembled. nroD
| ably in Paris, the domestic science
| teachers from the agricultural school
of the various departments of
! France. The four experts from the
| United States department of agricul-
! ture will constitute the faculty of a
| school of home canning. the student
| body being the domestic science
! teachers of the French agricultural
| schools.
After that tour of France will be
made, the itinerary covering the in
| stitutions at which are stationed the
! domestic science teachers who were
students in the initial school. A three
| days canning demonstration will be
| held at each Of these agricultural
| schools, which are described as in
termediate between state colleges of
agriculture and agricultural high
schools in the United States.
1t is expected that between four
and FIVE months will be required for
the work. The anticipated result is
the training Of a corps of French
| teachers for home instruction in can
ming. Incidentally. some results ben
eficial to the United States will be
accomplished With the develop
ment of home canning in France,
| there will be a demand for American
made cans and jars and canning
! equipment. Tin cans are still made,
mostly by hand, slowly and in small
| quantities. +-
Says a rural editor: "a smart
] man is never. a success as a fisher
| man. We tried it ourselves.
! Probably no man ever wanted the