Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-11-28
FAMILIES CAN HAVE BETTER
HEALTH If THEY "CAN,,

thing as follows;
Bread, butter, eggs, meat and fish.
potatoes, and patent medicine laxa-
tives.
Many Americans customarily suf-
fer from one of the following COM
plants Indigestion, consultation.
rheumatism. A simple change of
the daily menu might go a long way
to remedy these ailments, according
to the Bureau of Plant Industry's
specialist in charge of canning club
work. This specialist recommends a
change to menu more in keeping
with natures plan something as fol-
lows:
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 patent 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 fruit, can of green's and a
can of vegetables for every day dur
ing the winter, there would be little
need for the laxatives now so regu-
larly purchased from the corner
drugstore. There would also be
great economy in the substitution of
an inexpensive food tor more expen-
sive 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
would save an astonishing amount
of food that goes to waste every
year. 1t is estimated that over so
per cent of all the vegetables, green's.
fruits, and berries that grow in this
country go to waste and are
lost to those who need them. This
is simply because housewives have
not learned to care for these surplus
products efficiently and to make
them available for the winter months
by canning.
That home canning may reduce
the cost of living is not generally ap-
preciated. Even those who are ac-
customed to use a supply of canned
goods in the winter, do not realize
that they sometimes pay transporta-
ton on goods from distant parts of
the country when there is a surplus
of the same product in their own
vicinity during the summer months,
which might have been saved by
home canning.
For example, a can of tomatoes is
bought during the winter in certain
districts in Colorado for 1 5 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
Colorado. This can was put up in
Maryland. The people of the sec
ton where it was purchased live in
an irrigated district, where there is
always a surplus of tomatoes in sum-
mer, yet they pay transportation on
vegetables from Maryland, when they
might have put up similar can dur
ing 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 realizes the
enormous saving a little intelligent
home canning might bring about.
Home canning, however, would not
seriously affect the business of COM
mercial canning factories. There
will always be plenty of people who
have neither the time nor inclina-
ton to can their own products. More
home canning, on the contrary, will
accustom 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
every home, where canning is pos
sible, might profit. This laboratory
is not what is known as modern,
well-equipped laboratory" In fact,
it does not look like laboratory at
all. 1t contains simply what every
average home may have, and is moth
ing more nor less than an Cyery-C
kitchen. Here recipes that are appli-
cable for every home have been
thoroughly tested, and are gladly
furnished to any housewife upon
application.
Several kinds of simple canning
outfits, available for every home, are
described in the Department of Agri-