CONSERVING OUR FOOD SUPPLY 



403 



the big record made last year in the home conservation 

 of food will be far surpassed this season. These reports 

 show that there will be at least a doubling in the amounts 

 of vegetables and fruits canned and dried. Last year 

 there were between 450,000,000 and 500,000,000 jars of 

 garden products stowed away on the pantry shelves. 

 The summer and fall of 1918 will see more than a 

 billion cans thus saved. 



are allowed to do their canning in the company's kitchen. 

 This work can be carried on at little expense, as a 

 small shed somewhere near the factory serves for the 

 purpose and the water needed for the canning is heated 

 by waste steam from the factory. Necessary material 

 is furnished to the home food conservers at cost, and 

 local food conservation committees and others interested 

 in this end of the campaign can co-operate and assist. 



A WAR GARDEN CANNING PRIZE WINNER 



Mrs. Mary Williams, of Danville, Illinois, was an inspiration to the women of her community in the home production and conservation of food. 

 Fifteen ribbons to her credit attest to the merit of the canned vegetables and fruits which were stored away on her pantry shelves, these being the 

 surplus products of her war garden. 



Canning kitchens and plants have been established in 

 many places by large manufacturing concerns who are 

 helping their employees not only to plant war gardens 

 but to preserve all the surplus supply for winter use. 

 Frequently this is being made more or less of a com- 

 munity affair, and as the opportunity offers people in 

 the neighborhood who are not employees of the plant 



A quite complete illustration of what industrial con- 

 cerns are doing in this direction is furnished by Wright 

 Shovel Company, in North Anderson, Indiana. Arthur 

 B. Birge, manager, recently purchased a complete can- 

 ning outfit and had it installed in a summer kitchen, 

 screened all around, clean, sunny and sanitary. He 

 ordered a large supply of cans which will be furnished 



