JAM-MAKING OVERSEAS

Evening Star, Issue 23497, 10 February 1940, Page 16

JAM-MAKING OVERSEAS

COUNTRYWOMEN CO-OPERATE From London conies news of cooperative buying and cooking as wartime methods of economy among women members of women’s institutes and townswomen’s guilds throughout England. One scheme which women’s institutes are considering is co-operative buying of, seeds of vegetables for the 1940 crop. They are calling in experts from seed firms and' allotment societies to decide whether it would be in the countrywoman’s interests to buy her seeds individually or through her organisation. It was only the pompt action of the London headquarters of the women’s institutes that saved 500 tons of the record autumn fruit crop (says an overseas newspaper). Since the middle of August it had been difficult to buy sugar in some villages for preserving fruit. For eight weeks the Food Ministry allowed the National Federation of Institutes to take orders and buy from a wholesale firm in the city. Orders and money were sent by different villages to the federation offices, whioh paid a cheque for the whole amount purchased. Then the city firm sent the sugar direct to the villages. Several village institutes on receiving the sugar from London decided to make their iam co-operatively, a method which was first adopted during the last war.