Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

] AAoRCNt the GdAdNn llOin time 10 llilts
see the tomatoes canned and certify
/ TO a report, otherwise the tomato
grower is not eligible to enter the
school, County or State contest.
Must Bear Club Label.
All canned vegetables put on the
/ market must bear the club label on
which must appear the weight AMI
the name OF the packer.
/ In the contests the awards are
made on the following score:
/ Yield 20 per cent.
| Profit 20 per cent.
Exhibit 40 per cent.
The flavor. appearance of products
/ as to color, size etc, texture, wheth-
er firm or too soft; the pack whether
| full or sCant, well or poorly arranged;
workmanship in sealing labelling, etc,
all enter into deciding the contest.
| Prizes Of various kinds and value
are offered as inducements to the
girls to learn how to grow Vegeta-
( bles and can them successfully One
What is highest and most valued by
/ the prize winners is the scholarship
| to a short course at the State Col
! lege of Agriculture. The scholarship
meets the expense of the trip and
| the stay during the ten days of the
course. A special course in domestic
/ science poultry dairying and truck
/ ing is obtained from this short course
( which is arranged especially to meet
their needs.
| Aside from the value of instruc-
| ton the girls find il wonderfully in
teresting, a real picnic time. It is
an opportunity also to give the girls
a larger vision of farm life as 1t is
typifed by the College, its laborato-
[ ries, It's many and fascinating aCtiv-
I tiles indicating wonderful vistas of
attainment on the farm.
! The benefits of the canning Club
movement are not restricted to the
girls. Ii is catching, very infectious
with mothers, and no sooner are the
girls Interested than the women have
a new theme to talk about at the
casual meetings or the visits" The
/ irresistible end Of the conclusions of
all the pros and cons Of the mothers
/ is that IL is surely a fact that Bessie
| Blank has made $50 clean and clear IN
/ profit off Of her little one-tenth acre
tract.
/ How 1t is the canning was done,
what little precautions and niceties
were necessary and what would hap
4 pen If they were not carefully at
tended to, all get thoroughly threshed
over among the women folk until the
net result is that every woman in the
I
done, gets interested in doing It and
/ there you are,
/ Just about how much canned goods
cross over TIE Georgia State line. 1r
| the Alabama State line or the South
/ Carolina State line from some other
State? 1t is enough to make our
| pocketbooks ache TO think Of 1t, The
! home canning outfit which the to-
mato club organizers are carrying
. D sarh h. "a earan d.
fore !ong. II the big eanhefies do not.
Expert Outlines Plao.
At Cuba, Alabama, a few farmers
/ decided they would put up canning
| plant They did. Then they did not
know how to run ii. 30 they wrote
4 Congressman HObson about IT, as they
/ do about most of their troubles. Pref
! ty soon there came an expert sent
/ from Washington or from somewhere
sent by the Department Of Agricul-
tore al Washington, back OF whose
coming was the Merrimac hero.
The canning expert told them how
to get the various kinds Of Canuahla
stuff into the cans so that they would
not spoil. He had the proper receipt
and not a can was lost from spelling
The cannery ran three weeks the first
year. 1t could not run longer because
the people were not expecting IL and
were therefore not prepared to deliver
the suCCulent materials. But the en-
l terprising farmers did not lose heart.
| They only made Il per cent on their
investment while running three
weeks With plenty Of pluck they
prepared to go about 1T on a bigger
scale next year.
Happenings somewhat similar and
with profits that depend largely on
! how many cans have been improper
/ ly filled and have turned out badly,
can be found IN increasing numbers
throughout the South. Some few
failures certainly demonstrate that IT
pays 10 get in touch with canning
club organizers or some expert from
somewhere.
South Can Lead in Canning.
The South ought 10 be the greatest
canning section Of the entire country.
II can grow more things to can. IL
can glow them cheaper and gather
ana can tnem cheaper than any sec
zion now engaging extensively in the
business.
The earning outfit IS a great con-
server Of waste The apples that fan
to the -rOund and are perm Hted 10
rot, the surplus tomatoes that decay
on thp vine. the peaches which She
rot viii get before they reach the
market. the beans that a glutted
market win not take. the b!ackherries
growing everywhere Strawberries.
huCkleberries and a world Of good
things can all be put into cans and
fed to the family when supplies are
running short or sold TO the city
where canned goods 80 all the year
round
Some few millions can be picked up
from the blaCkberries growing wild
which now feed the birds or dry on
the vine here in the South each year.
And there is no use talking, a black
berry shortCake is worthy Of eminent
esteem
million dollars or SO OF buck
D. Ferries, whortieberries, blue berries.
or whatever your neck Of the WOO Is
calls them. could De picked IN any
boys woods with no questions asked.
ard encased I'm fruit jars. Blueberry
nj. makes a fine contribution TO Wurle
peace when in transit on the luncn
counter.
Big Canneries Don't Compete.
with the best Of them. however.
there is difference between the
stuff that the big canneries pu, up
and the kind mother puts up And
there Will always be a difference be-
tween the product Of the big can
neries and that which the canning
club girls fix The little touches Of