122 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
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. 
