Show THE FARM KITCHEN KIT CHEN CHEM tile the kitchen is tile the housewives workshop and how low it is planned and arranged determines the case and cf efficiency fici ency with which she does her work she may have to take many steps in a day or the workshop may be so arranged that steps will be saved and labor reduced to a minimum too many women accept their kit chens as they find them and make no effort to have them remodeled many farm kitchens are so large they require miles ot of walking in preparing a I 1 meal when the subject of better farm equipment is being considered lot us not forget the farm home especially the kitchen and plan not only to equip it with labor saving devices but to rearrange arrange re it to save steps architects and builders in the cities are now including in their building plans up to date and modern kitchens but there is a lack of attention to this phase of construction on the part of many of those who build farm harries hames commenting on this subject before a recent national housing conference a representative of tile the bureau of home economics of the united states department of agriculture said tt it is desirable that all requirements for the scientific kitchen be met by the builder that he equip the kitchen completely with refrigerator cabinet serving ng and stacking surfaces surta ces and all facilities for storage for it is ony on y I 1 through tigh building in the equipment that it can be made fully efficient t ts hs s well as harmonious and attract tive and easy to keep clean clead and it is also only by building it in thit that its provision is assured if the family must provide the missing unit they will all too frequently be lacking or when provided fit badly into the space allowed can we not come to accept the full equipping of i the kitchen as part of the cost of housing just as we now accept the built in closet in place of the portable abl wardrobes and chests that used to disfigure our bedrooms let us urge the builder at least to plan for the needed equipment and to place his windows and doors ani and the sink and stove which he does provide in such a way that the housewife hous bous wife bent on efficiency in her kitchen does not meet insuperable obstacles the importance of increasing the efficiency of the farm womans comans workshop should be stressed more than it has been as the health and well being not only of the women of the household but the entire fam ily depend upon it utah farmer fanner |