Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — PUT UP HENS IN GLASS [ARTICLE]

PUT UP HENS IN GLASS

Farmer* Find Canning Fowl* Like Fruit Profitable. Each fall finds the farmer or poultryman with a t&w fowls upon his hands which for various reasons, principally that of age, would turn out a source of lose if fed through the winter. Many have discovered that such fowls will show a greater profit if put up in glass cans for the family’s consumption during the winter than Ouinped upon the market wtrflie time all poultry prices are at their lowest level. The yearling or two-year-old hens are cleaned and cut up into pieces as if for boiling and packed into quart fruit jars, hopes and all, except the breasts, from which the meat is cut and the bone discarded. A level teaspoonful of salt is placed on top of the snugly packed pieces and the jar Hied with cold water. Rubbers are fitted to the Jan and the tops put on loosely. If the jars have screw tope they are screwed an about half way. If of tfi* wire fastened variety the clamps are left up. The jars are then put in an ordinary wash boiler upon a frame of lathe which prevents them coming in contact with the bottom. The boiler is filled with water up- to the edges of the jar tops and sot upon the stove. After the water has commenced to boil it is.kept boiling for three hours, when the cover is removed .and the jar tops screwed or clamped down • tight The cover is replaced and the jars boiled for five minutes longer when they are removed to a place safe from drafts to cook Older hens than two years and males are boiled in a kettle for an hour before being placed in the jars, after which the method of procedure is the same.