Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1918 — MAKING SUCCESS AS HOME CANNES [ARTICLE]

MAKING SUCCESS AS HOME CANNES

Department of Agriculture Reduces Essential Principles to Simple Terms. FULL INFORMATION ON WORK Small Children, Grandfathers and Grandmothers May Be Efficient Soldiers in Service of Nation by Assisting. Anybody wlio can do good housework and” who will make a serious effort to master some essential details can be a successful home cariner. Of course, good sense and more than ordinary care-must be exercised, and certain definitely demonstrated principles must be adhered to. ■■ It Is not necessary to discuss those principles here. The United States department of agriculture has reduced them to simple terms and printed them In plain language. Full printed Information on canning may be hud from the department of agriculture by any who care to ask for it —both general Information and specific Information on particular fruits and vegetables. In addition to that, the department of agriculture has an army of home demonstrators, experts In canning, who are anxious to give practical, first-hand instruction, and one of whom is within reach of practically every housewife in the United States. Operation and Equipment.

The operation Is simple. Means of instruction are adequate and easily available. The equipment is neither expensive nor z hard to find. An ordinary wash boiler with some strips of board at the bottom is as good a canning boiler as can be found. There is no equipment required in canning beyond the ordinary articles to be found in the average household. The things that must not be so readily dismissed is the duty of everybody to see to it that all fruits and vegetables not required for Immediate use shall be canned and carried over into the winter, to Increase the food supply of a world that, for some time to come, cannot be very far from the verge of hunger. There is, as everybody knows, a shortage of available labor for food production. All people cannot do all the kinds of labor that are necessary to produce food. But here is an opportunity for those who cannot.plant and plow, harvest and gather into the garner—an opportunity to make available large quantities of as good food as there is in the world. Housewife as Director. * Probably the housewife, in most cases, will have to be the director of the canning operations. But, in most cases, she will not have to do all, or even the greater part, of the labor. In most of the processes of canning, boys and girls—even comparatively small boys and girls—can be efficient helpers. Old persons—-grandmothers who have ceased to be active' heads of houses ahd grandfathers who have long since retired from business —can do excellent work in helping along the canning operations—can render as real and as efficient service to the* nation us their stalwart sons who are growing food crops or making munitions of war or building ships.

Club in Every Home. There might very well be a canning club in every house. In a few cases, of course, the club must consist just of the husband and the wife. But, in the great majority of cases there will be a large membership—some boys and girls, a grandmother or a grandfather, or both. And it could be made a mighty interesting organization, because, in the first place, it would be a military organization fighting for the freedom of the world. Think of it! Mother as the general in command, directing a campaign against the kaiser, and all the other members of the family constituting units in the army, each with a particular and Important duty. A thousand times you have wished • that you could have fought beside grandpa when he was a soldier in a great war.. Here is the Three generations fighting shoulder to shoulder on the right ride of the greatest war the world has ever seen!

> Practical Cannergrams. Get down to cases—cases of homecanned products. A row of filled preserving jars Is a good defense against winter. Sterilized, sealed, saved : —the three “S’s" of home canning. S. O. S. —Sterilize on stove —another way of saying “boll those jars ot fruits and vegetables so they will keep perfectly.” The useful life of a preserving jarfilled in summer, ready by fall, emptied In winter —hungry to save more food next spring and summer. A wooden false bottom in a homecanning outfit Is a raft that keeps lots of perishable food from being lost. An all-round good thing for the nation —a rubber ring on a preserving jar. A fourth floor apartment is a fine place to produce a canned garden. Persons of every level should can, the family in the top flat as well as the dweller in the bungalow. You don’t need even a foot of earth to raise a canned garden—in fact the less dirt.the better In home canning.' The colors of those jars of canned and preserved products put a service .emblem in your kitchen. Brighten the corner irt that kitchen closet —with canned beans, fruits, berries.

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