Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1918 — ONE COMMUNITY CANNERY SAVES 47,000 QUARTS. [ARTICLE]

ONE COMMUNITY CANNERY SAVES 47,000 QUARTS.

After all home containers had been filled and tons of fresh foods bad been trucked away to near-by towns, the community "cannery in Gooding county, Idaho, saved 47,000 quarts of fruits and vegetables last summer. Only that part of the products which - would have been wasted was taken to the cannery. This consisted of 13,300 ] quarts of Elberta peaches, 10,000 • quarts of tomatoes, 9,000 quarts ‘ of apples, 5,000 quarts of com, < 2,000 quarts of string beans, 1,- J 000 quarts of table beets, 1.000 J quarts of plums, 1,000 quarts of I apricots, 500 quarts of peas, 100 J quarts of cherries, 100 quarts of , pumpkins. Flye thousand quarts * of fresh beef, mutton, pork and • chicken were also canned. , ’