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

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 10 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
that is highest and most valued by
the prize winners is the scholarship
to 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-
tion the girls find it wonderfully in
teresting, a real picnic time. It Is
an opportunity also to give the girls
a larger vision Of farm life as it is
typified by the College, its laborato-
ries, It's many and fascinating actiy-
tiles indicating wonderful vistas Of
attainment on the farm.
The benefits Of the canning club
movement are not restricted to the
girls. It 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 fact that Bessie
Blank has made $50 clean and clear IN
profit off of her little one-tenth acre
tract
How il is the canning was done
what little precautions and niceties
were necessary and what would hap
pen II they We're not carefully at
tended to, all get thoroughly threshed
over among the women folk until the
net result Is that every woman in the
community knows how IL is to be
done, gets interested in doing it and
I there you are
Just about how much canned goods
cross over tie Georgia State line, or
| the Alabama State line OF the South
| Carolina State line from some other
State2 1t IS enough to make our
poCketbooks ache TO think Of 1t. The
| home canning outfit which the to-
mato club organizers are carrying
/ through the South will fix that be
/ fore long, If the big canneries do not.
Expert Outlines Plan.
/ At Cuba, Alabama, a few farmers
! decided they would put up n canning
/ plant They did. Then they did not
know how to run il. 80 they wrote
l Congressman Hobson about Il, as they
do about most Of their troubles Pret-
( ty soon there came an expert sent
l from Washington or from somewhere
sent by the Department Of Agricul-
I tore at Washington, back Of whose
coming was the MeTrimaC hero.
The canning expert told them how
to get the various kinds Of Cannable
stun into the cans so that they would
not spoil He had the proper receipt
and not a can was lost from spelling
I The cannery ran three weeks the first
year, 1t could not run longer because
l the people were not expecting IL and
were therefore not prepared to deliver
! the succulent materials. But the en-
Iterprising farmers did not lose heart
| They only made II per cent on their
| investment while running three
weeks With plenty Of pluck they
| prepared TO go about fl 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 he found in increasing numbers
| throughout the South. Some few
/ failures certainly demonstrate that II
/ pays 10 get I'm touch with canning
| club organizers OF some expert from
! somewhere
South Can Lead in Canning.
] The South ought TO be the greatest
/ canning section Of the entire country.
J II can grow more things to can. IL
4 can grow them cheaper and gather
and can chem cheaper than any sec
I ;ion now engaging extensively in the
Z business.
/ The earning outfit is a great con-
Z server Of waste. The apples that fan
{ 10 the ground and are permitted TO
/ Tot, the surplus tomatoes that decay
7 on the VINE the peaches which she
rot VIII get before they reach the
market. the beans that glutteI
market viii not take the blaCkbprries
growing everywhere. strawberries
] huFkleberrleS and q world of good
! things. can an he put into cans and
/ fed TO the family when supplies are
! running short or sold 20 the city
/ where canned goods go all the year
E round.
! some few millions can be picked uu
I 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
I esteem.
I 4 million dollars or 50 Of buck
IItrerries whortIeherries. blue berries.
or whatever your neck Of the w0oEs
calls them. could be picked in any
1 boys woods with no questions asked.
ara enCased I'm fruit jars B,ueber-y
( pie makes a fine contribution TO worlE
I peace when in transit on the luuca
counter.
Big canneries Don't Compete.
With the best Of them however
there is a difference between the
stuff that the big Canueries put un
and the kind mother puts up" And
there viii always be a difference be-
tween the product of the big can
nsries and that which the canning
club girls fix The little touches 81
flavor and delicaCy which the big
cauneries can never get VIII ALWAYS
De associated with the home canning