Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-08-30
Caanery for Every Farm.
HeNR1co GENTLEMEN MAKES SOME
PRAoTICAL SUGGESTIONS.

EhAOllCAL EOOuEO4LOks0.
Messrs- Editors: In reply to M
ouiry of subscriber in one OF your
July issues, | offer the following:-
The canning Of fruits aud berries
!! for market in tin cans offers one OF
the most profitable methods OF sell
ling the products of our southern
farms.
Every farm should have its can.
merry, as it is much more profitable,
convenient and pleasant to can
your own produce than to sell to
cannery. Any farmer can learn to
do the canning in very short
time. There a number Of canning
! outfits advertised, costing from ten
to ten thousand dollars. Any of
them will do good work. but any
one Of ordinary intelligence can fix
up all the apparatus need at much
less cost than any OF the outfits
sell for. The average farmer can
fit up at home an outfit for ton
dollars that will be sufficient to can
rs, coo cans per season, and then
as he acquires knowledge of. the bus.
mess. he can add convenienees and
| facilities as he sees tie nerd of
them.
How To ERECT HOMEMADE
OUTFIT,
will give diret tons for putting
up such an outfit as used last
year, with which 1900 to 1000
cans can be put up in day. With
two pieces of timber two by twelve
inches, twelve feet long, and a
sheet Of galvanized iron, | made a
tank twelve inches deep. twenty
eight inches wide and seven feet 4
inches long, the galvanized sheet
iron being used for the bottom OF
the tank. turned two inches OH the
outside. This tank was placed on
rock fire-box and used for boiling
the cans after being filled and SOL
dered, A common ZINC .washtub
was set up over rock fire box, to
be used for scalding tomatoes,
blanching snaps and furnishing
hot water. A smaller zinc tub
punched full Of half inch holes
served as a scalder, piece of stone
pipe made into fire pot served
for heating the soldering irons. or
an old sheet iron stove having a
door or opening in front answers
every purpose. A couple OF cap
ping tools and an ordinary solder.
iron for soldering up the small hole
in the top of the cans, and a few
buckets completed the outfit. Our
product was as 6ne as ever saw,
and the whole outfit cost me just
$3.50
DIRECTIONS For CANNING.
Tomatees:-Scald in boiling wa
ter until the peeling cracks and
will slip off. Peel the tomatoes
and cut out all the decayed, hard
or unripe parts, and pack in cans
while hot as can be handled. Fill
to within about a quarter Of an
inch of top Of can. Solder the cap
ON and solder up the hole in the
top of the cap; put in tank, which
should he half full of water, boil
ing, and keep boiling for forty
minutes, and take out Of tank.
None of the contents Of the can
should touch the top of the can or
trouble will be experienced in SOL
dering on the caps.
Snaps; String and put in cold
water long enough to make them
fresh and crisp; then scald in boil
| inc water about three minutes and
pack in cans while as hot as can be
handled; after packing to within a
quarter of an inch of the
top, pour IN boiling water, in which
a handful of salt to the bucketful
has been dissolved, until the snaps
are covered: solder cap on and SOL
der up small hole in the top OF the
cap, and boil three quarters OF IAN
hour.
The same general rules govern
apples, pears ETC., except the, differ
ent fruits and Vegetables require
boiling different lengths of time.
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