The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-11-14
FAMILIES CAN HAVE
BETTER HEALTH
IF THEY CAN
Housewives Will Find Canned
Vegetables and Fruits Very
HeaIthfuI and Economical
for Winter Use. w Fl


Washington, Nov. 1.-THE balanc-
ed ration of many Americans today is
made up something as follows: Lac,
butter, eggs meat and fish, potatoes.
and patent medicine laxatives.
Many Americans customarily suffer
from one of the following complaints:
Indigestion, constipation, rheumatism.
A simple change of the daily mcnu
might go a long way to remedy G&esS
ailments, according to the Bureau of
Plant Industry's specialist in charge
of canning club work. This specialist
in keeping with natures plan. some
thing as follows-
Bread, butter, fruit, vegetables,
green's, meat, fish and eggs.
He recommends that every family
provide a diet of fruit and vegetables
for every day in the year. This would
do much to eliminate the need for pa
tent medicine laxatives that figure so
prominently in many American bills
of fare. If every home kept on hand
enough canned products SO that there
might be a can of fruits, a can of
green's and a can of vegetables for
every day during the winter, there
would be little need for the 1axatives
now SO regularly purchased from the
corner drugstore. There would also
be great economy in the substitution
of an inexpensive food for more ex-
pensive ones.
More home canning, done at the
proper season, would enable the aver
age family always to have the proper
quantity of canned products, and
food that goes to waste every year.
1t is estimated that over so per, cent
of all the vegetables, green's, fruit,
and berries that grow in this country,
go to waste and are actually lost to
those who need them This IS sim
h ~
learned to care for these surplus pro-
ducts efficiently and to make them
available for the winter months by
canning.
That home canning may reduce the
cost OF living Is not generally appreci-
ated- Even those who are accustom-
ed to use a supply of canned goods
in the winter, do not realize that they
sometimes pay transportation on
goods from distant parts of the coun-
try, when there is a surplus Of the
same product in their own. vicinity
might have been saved by home can
ming.
For example, a can OF tomatoes is
bought during the winter in certain
districts in Colorado for fifteen cents.
Tomatoes are taken as an example,
as this is one OF the canned products
which appears most frequently on the
shelves OF groceries throughout Col
Orado- This canvas put up in Mary
land. The people of the section where
1T was purchased live in an irrigated
district, where there is always a sur
plus of tomatoes in summer, yet they
pay transportation on vegetables from
Maryland, when they might have put
up a similar can during the season |
in their own district which would
have cost about five cents. When one
considers the number of cans used
throughout the country, which have
been shipped great distances, one rea- |
Lies the enormous saving little in |
telligent home canning might bring |
about Home canning, however,
should not seriously affect the bust |
ness OF commercial canning factOriSS.
There Will always be plenty of people |
who have neither the time nor inc1in-
alton to con their own products. More |
home canning on the contrary will ac-
custom the people more and more to |
using canned products in general
Some practical experiments have |
been made IN the laboratory of the |
Bureau of Plant Industry's office of |
Farm Management, from which ev-
cry home where canning is possible,
might profit. This laboratory is not |
equipped laboratory" In fact, it does
not look like laboratory at all. 1t
contains simply what every average
home may have, and is nothing more
nor less than an every day kitchen.
Here recipes that are applicable for
every home have been thoroughly
tested, and are gladly furnished to any
housewife upon application.
Several kinds of simple canning out
FITS, available for every home, are
described in the Department of Agri-
cultures Farmers Bulletin No. 52I |
This also contains valuable sugges-
lions on tomato canning, which are
applicable to other canned goods and
Includes definitions of canning terms
which should be valuable to house
wives not familiar with some of the
more technical terms.
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