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

| attainment on the farm.
The benefits Of the canning clIb
| 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
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 IT is surely 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 nlCeties
were necessary and what would hap
/ pen II they were not carefully at
! tended 10, all get thoroughly threshed
over among the women folk until the
net result is that every woman in the
/ community knows how. it is 10 ne
/ 3one, gets interested In doing IT and
! there you are.
/ Just about how much canned goods
cross over the Georgia State line, IT
/ the Alabama State line or the South
/ Carolina State line from some other
| State? II is enough to make our
| pocketbOoks ache to think Of it. The
home canning outfit which the to-
mato club organizers are carrying
through the South will fix that De
/ tore long. If the big canneries do not
Expert Outlines Plan.
At Cuba, Alabama, a few farmers
| decided they would put up a canning
! plant They did. Then they did not
| know how TO run IT, 40 they wrote
| Congressman Hobson about II, as they
do about most of their troubles. Pret-
| " soon there came an expert sent
a. 81 mi D. 4a7
sent by the Department Of Agricul-
,rre at Washington, back OF whose
coming was the MerrimaC 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
| The cannery ran three weeks the first
/ year. IL could not run longer because
| the people were not expecting 1t and
were therefore not prepared TO deliver
4 the succulent materials But the en-
/ tcrprisng 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 II on a bigger
scale next year.
! Happenings somewhat similar and
| with profits that depend largely on
]
| w filled and have turned out badly.
can he found In increasing numbers
! throughout the South. Some few
/ failures certainly demonstrate that u
pays to get i'm touch with canning
club organizers or some expert from
| somewhere.
4 South Can Lead in Canning.
The South ought TO be the greatest
canning section of the entire country.
II can grow more things to can. il
can glow them cheaper and gather
and can them cheaper than any sec
.ion now engaging extensively I'm the
business.
The earning outfit is a great con-
server Of waste. The apples that fall
to the ground and are permitted 10
rot. the surplus tomatoes that decay
Oh the vine, the peaches which the
rot VIII get before they reach the
market. the beans that a glutted
market viii not take, the blackberries
growing everywhere, strawberries
huckleberries and a world of good
things can all be put into cans and
fed 70 the family when supplies are
running short or sold to the city
where canned goods go all the year
round
Some few millions can he picked mp
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.
4 million dollars or so Of buck
he ferries, whortleberries. blue berries
or whatever your neck OF the WOO Is
calls them. could be picked In any
boys woods with no questions asked
lard encased i'm fruit jars Blueberry
pi. makes a fine contribution 10 worl5
peace when in transit on the luncn
counter
Big Canneries Don't Compete.
With the best Of them however
, there is difference between the
stun that the big canueries put az
, land the kind mother puts up" And
there viii always De "a difference be-
tween the product of the big gau-
lneries and that which the canning
iefub girls fix The little touches 81
, flavor and .GeliCIcy which the biz
lcanuerics can never get, will always
lhe associated with the home canning
The home made sold at the DELEGATES.
. sen viii always command a better
! price. SO that. whatever the pros
, luectiye home Canncr may think of IN.
s lhlg canning establishments that are
going up in the South. there need be-
In0 fear of competition.