Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1918 — Home Canners Set High Mark [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Canners Set High Mark

Three Thousand Trained Demonstrators to Help Nation Preserve 1,500,000,000 Quarts This Year

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The home-canning drive for 1,500.000,000 quarts of “put up” foods in 1918 is on I Three thousand home-demonstration agents and leaders in boys’ and girls* club work are ready to help the nation to this goal. They have started out to teach the nation to can and to do a good job of it. In addition to this number many thousands of volunteer leaders are working with these extension forces on the summer campaign. Last year the home canners put up 850,000,000 quarts. Leaders are being trained in laboratories of the department of agriculture. This work will continue all summer and expert demonstrators will be turned, out to carry the latest canning information into the field. District meetings of home-demonstration agents have just been held in all the Southern states to plan the summer’s work and for special instruction in canning and drying. These are are being followed by thorough county and community organization and instruction. In the North and West canning schools for demonstrators are being conducted at many of the state agricultural colleges and in community centers. , , v , .. XT .. Every canning-club group among the boys’ and girls clubs in the Nortn and West is organizing a demonstration team of expert canners. These teams

will be uniformed and will give demonstrations at public meetings in their communities. Overy thirty thousand boys and girls will take part in this work. Ten manufacturers of rubber rings for glass jars have raised the quality of the rings to a standard required by the department of agriculture. This will be an important factor in encouraging more canning, for the assurance of good rings will mean an increased output of canned products among the home canners. Manufacturers of glass jars, stone crockery ware, tin cans and fiber boxes are also co-operating in improving their products and in securing a sufficient supply to meet the summer’s demands. Sufficient sugar will be available this summer for home canning, according to the United States food administration. The only requirement made is for a signed statement that the amount purchased is to be used for that purpose. Local regulations governing the maximum amount of sugar for canning allowed to Individuals during the season are made by state food administrators. '

A Canning Club Girl and Some of the Products She Conserved.