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serve as an effective bulwark against the enemy. The 

 call to make "Every Garden a Munition Plant" was 

 supplemented by the women with the motto: "Every 

 Kitchen a Canning Factory." Every facility that 

 could be found was utilized to carry on this effort. 

 Women's clubs everywhere urged upon their members 

 and others the importance of this work. Community 

 kitchens were opened for the convenience and assistance 

 of those who did not have the means or the time, at 

 home, to preserve all the vegetables grown in their 

 gardens. 



It was necessary that a certain amount of informa- 

 tion concerning new and scientific methods of canning 

 be furnished with the appeals made to women to pro- 

 ceed with the work, so the National War Garden Com- 

 mission furnished precise and practical instructions. 

 This it did in a number of ways. A comprehensive but 

 concise canning and drying book was prepared by 

 scientific experts and printed by the Commission for 

 free distribution. Several million copies of this manual 

 were given out during the first season of the garden 

 campaign; and an equal number of the improved and 

 revised editions which were issued in 1918 and 1919. 

 These went to hundreds of thousands of individuals 

 who applied for them, to libraries, local canning clubs 

 and committees, chambers of commerce, and other 

 trade bodies, banks, and manufacturing concerns, 

 schools, hundreds of emergency home demonstration 

 agents of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and to state, county, and city food administrators. 



