Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 22, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 April 1943 — BIG HOME CANNING QUOTA FOR INDIANA [ARTICLE]

BIG HOME CANNING QUOTA FOR INDIANA

Indiana's essential wartime home-canning goal for 1943 totals 342, 779,600 quarts, a leading food distributor estimated today. This huge job facing the state's 952,166 housewives represents an average of 10 quarts of home-packed food per j>erson, the amount the United States Department of Agriculture has recommended for rural families and which it considers desirable also for urban families. Any housewife who meets this goal will

assure each member of her family two cups of home-can-ned food daily for about seven months. The need for housewives to meet the goal was emphasized when Price . Administrator P. M. Brown reported that only 13,000,000 cases of commercially canned fruits and vegetables i would be available to civilians each month this year as coni- | pared to 30,000,000 cases last year. This means a reduction of 57 per cent, but civilians

will get along on it so oul armed forces and allies oan get the food thev need to whif| the Axis. Many American housewi?«l will fill this gap by purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables for both immediate use and for home canning inasmuch a* these perishable foods i-equine no ration points. The \Vteß Production Board has promised adequate supplies of cover* and rubber rings for home canning.