Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — DON'T WASTE SURPLUS FRUIT [ARTICLE]

DON'T WASTE SURPLUS FRUIT

If You Can’t Use It Yourself, Give It to Your Neighbor. , There will be more or less fruit on nearly every farm which will not be salable because of 'lack of a local market, lack of time to pick and pack for distant piarkets, or because the amount may seem too small at any one time to be worth saving. Such fruit should not be allowed to go to waste, for it may be used in making fruit butters. Well-made fruit butters are very welcome and "tasty,” and homemade apple butter, peach butter, plum butter, pear butter, and other fruit butters go a long way to make plain cereals appetizing. Children, and older people, too, like such fruit butter on bread, and it is good dietetics as well as good, economy to use such highly flavored products to “carry” a relatively large amount of milder flavored food. It is desirable to use only good quality fruit for fruit butters, and it must’ be remembered that poor fruits will not make good fruit butters. However, as every housekeeper knows, part of an apple or other fruit may be sound and good, while the remainder is not, owing to bruising or -other injury, and such good portions may be used successfully for fruit-but-ter making. Thus it is often a decided economy, since it saves what would otherwise be a total loss.

Every year on the farms of Jasper county there are thousands of bushels of apples and other fruits that go to waste for the above reasons, when the people thus permitting the waste would gladly give the fruit to anyone who would come and get it. In order to prevent as much of this waste as possible and also to aid in the nation-wide • economy movement, The Democrat will publish free of charge any information regarding any fruit thus going to waste. There are any number of families who cannot afford to buy fruit to make fruit butters and- who would gladly go to any farm and gather up fallen fruit and make good use of it. Phone us the information and we will do the rest.