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A Tweedsrnuir History Curators with their chairman, Mrs. R. C. Walker, centre front row. 75 cents an car. But our mast popular canned vegetable is white beans â€" there seems to be a good prospect of increasing the sale of these. The English housewife likes our canned fruit pie-fillings â€" at a food exhibition held each year with millions of people passing through. we give away samples and we can hardly keep up with the demand. But English women like to do their shopping every day and they want a can of pieâ€"filling just large enough for one pic; so we may have to put up pie fillings in smaller cans. The Minister spoke of the Ontario Food Council set up a year ago, a council where producers and consumers can confer together. As a result of this the producers are finding new ways of meeting the consumers‘ needs. A Food Council has also been formed in Great Britain, made up of food importers with a representative from Ontario attending to learn and to keep Ontario producers advised about the form in which the British importer wants food supplied from Ontario. Home Economics Service Introducing the Home Economics Extension Service program for the coming year. the Director, Miss Helen McKercher said: “Before we arrange a new program we take a good look at the old one; we read extension research articles and we study your reports. In one report the group said: “Frontiers in home economics today are basically the same as they'were fifty years ago, but they now have different forms, different settings and new applications. In other words, as I have often said, your organization is needed today just as it was seventy years ago. After listening to SUMMER 1965 Dr. McCready, we know that families still need help. "We now have three classes of audience. ll] Those who can buy luxury goods and servâ€" ices; (2) Those who have to make choices in selecting goods and services; (3) Subsistence consumers who buy only the necessities and sometimes go without. (These are the concern of ARDAJ Most Institute members find it difficult to understand the needs of this group; but we have them and we have u responsibility to raise the educational goals of the young people which means we have to start by raising the goals of the parents. "If you are to do this you will have to go beyond your own group.“ Mrs. McKercher said. "You will have to think of the total community. Perhaps we feel more secure with 'our own‘. I have actually had women tell me ‘They can join the Institute and get the same training as we do.’ Do you question sharing your services with others?“ Miss McKercl-ier said she was not especially concerned about people learning subject mat- ter through extension work but she was greatly concerned about whether or not they put what they had learned into practical appli- cation in their homes, 0n the matter of planning a program. Miss McKercher felt that programs developed with the people are the most basic. because the people know best what their own needs and interests are. “People are the important factors in better rural living.” she said. “Their advancement may attain better agricultural practices. but not directly. The home comes in between. You and I are quite largely the result of the kind of homes in which we were reared. “Our teeth, our bones and our tissues depend I5