LESSON FOR THE FARM HOME 



Published semi-monthly throughout the year by the New York State College of 

 Agriculture at Cornell University. Entered as second-class matter October 13, 1911, 

 at the post office at Ithaca, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 



L. H. Bailey, Director 

 Course for the Farm Home, Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor 



VOL. 1. No. 17 



ITHACA, N. Y. 

 JUNE I, 1912 



FOOD SERIES No. 4 



THE PRESERVATION OF FOOD IN THE HOME— PART I 



Flora Rose 



In the days of the French Commune, when food was scarce and hunger 

 common, a small boy was given a birthday party. For the first time in 

 weeks there was food enough and a little to spare even after the last 



Fig. 79. — A prospect for well-filled shelves 



greedy child had been " filled " to the limit of his capacity. When all 

 the guests had gone and there was no longer any need of keeping up appear- 

 ances the boy wept bitterly, because there was still food and no place in 

 the boy to store it away. 



It is a natural impulse in the time of plenty to linger on the memory 

 or on the prospect of a time of need, and from the discomfort of such 

 reflection has sprung, phoenix-like, thrifty thought of the future. In no 



way is man's effort to be provident better exemplified than by his adap- 



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