The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-10

experiment, and put up few cans For home use only.
 would not advise making canner either unless to experiment with, and this Is many times wcrth great deai to man
 A complete outfit can be bought for less than $50, which will give you everything you will need and all in- structions, too use a portable can ner which burns cord-wood and has three tanks in which to cook my fruit. This is far better than one tank the size of all three. For instance. can scald tomatoes in one and have the other two to put the cans In and Keep working all She time. When cars are lowered Into the boiling water. the water Will stop boiling for a few seconds, and the time of cooking must count from the time the water boils and not from the time cans are set in tho tank. Thus while one tank Is filled and proceeds to boil, 1 can be filling the next and so on till the flrst one Is ready to take out and be refilled. The work can, with a little practice. be carried on as sys- tematically as clock work.
 All goods put up in cans should De put into the boiling water as soon as possible after being cut into. This pre- serves them and makes the best grade of goods, retaining the natural flavor, while if left in the cans to be cooked. the goods deteriorate in flavor and value.
 Not only must tomatoes be scalded to be peeled, but freestpne peaches that are well ripened may be peeled much faster by scalding.
 Beets and sweet potatoes must be cooked till peel will slip off before canning. Squashes and pumpkins b.. hafnFa niIIfnU in- to cans. Peas and beans must be shrunk before canning: this Is done by dipping into boiling water four minutes.
 There are many other points in favor of more than one tank, but I must pass on If you have a portable canner It can be moved to any part of the farm
 or set up in the orchard, or any place in the community, and save extra hand ling, hauling. bruising or jolting the fruit.
 Remember that the riper the fruit, the less handling. the quicker put into
 boiling water after cutting into the | fruit the greater your success. For best results in soldering, use "TiIlery' pattern soldering coppers, and solder hemmed rims. This is quick work and Is easily learned by following the simple instructions.
 1 If you have exhausting trays or fix lures of this kind, discard such cum bersome articles as you can do without them, but of exhausting, I shall speak in my next article.
 My canner holds 1os No. cans at once, or I can put out 5000 cans or peaches per day. This sized outfit will take care of ten acres of tomatoes and there will be left two or three days in the week to can other fruit. Rule. Texas
 l At the Fort Hays (Kansasl Experi-
 ment Station, beef feeding experiment | has been conducted, in which 60 calves were divided into four lots of Is each and fed for period of 16S days, These
 calves averaged about 400 pounds
 apiece at the beginning of the experi- ment Those fed corn and cob meal | and alfalfa hay gained 1.S1 pounds per
 day and consumed ASA pounds or grain
 and 3S3.5 pounds of hay for each 100
 pounds of gain. Those fed barley and alfalfa gained
 1.66 pounds per day and consumed 4l6 pounds of grain and 435 pounds of hay
 for each 100 pounds of gain.
 Those fed emmer and alfalfa gained II.5S pounds per day and consumed 430 pounds of grain and 4s7 pounds of hay | for each 100 pounds of gain. Those fed Kaffir corn and alfalfa consumed 457 pounds of grain and 505 pounds of hay for each 100 pounds of gain and they gained t.s1 pounds per day
 The first lot. fed on corn and col ImeaI and alfalfa brought the best lprice-s4.75 per 100 pounds. The barley Hot stood second. the Kafflr corn lo third and the emmer lot fourth and las' In the matter of price. At Kansas prices for grain and hay the hrst loI netted the most money.-Farm and Ranch.