Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-12
CANNED FRUIT AND
VEGETABLES WILL
SAVE THE FARMERS

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. Ill don't care
fig" is an old expression of scorn,
but there is hardly a person in Geoc-
gia who would use the phrase with re-
spect to the condition of the cotton
market caused by the great war in Eu-
rope; and there is a man in south
Georgia, who is not likely to use the
expression lightly in any connection,
for he is preserving figs from his own
trees and selling them in glass jars
in Atlanta at forty to fifty cents a
quart, according to information given
out by the Georgia chamber Of COM
merce.
This fact, in connection with the
temporary delay in the movement of
cotton, causes the Georgia chamber
of commerce to call attention to the
fact that money may be both made and
saved by farmers in Georgia by can
ming and preserving such fruits and
vegetables as are available from now
until frost-time. The saving will
come from the food made available for
months to come for the farmers table,
cutting down his expenditures for
foodstuffs bought from the west; and
neat sums may be realized by the
farmers wife from the sales of canned
goods and preserves in nearby towns,
thus enabling them to hold their cot
ton for normal prices.
If the farmers and their wives will
can the fruits and vegetables that they
cannot sell fresh at good prices, a
large part of the $150,000,O0O annual
ly sent to the north and west by Geor-
gia for foodstuffs will be kept al
home and will enable them to hold
their cotton until conditions are nearer
normal and at the same time add to
their table fare
1t is suggested that the following
may be canned or preserved with pro-
fit: Apples, stewed for pies, as jelly
marmalade, spiced and picked
peaches, canned, preserved, dried, cry
stabilized, picked and marmalade; figs,
canned, preserved, jam, dried and cry
stallized; pears, canned, preserved
pickled watermelon rind, preserved
or picked; canteloupes, small green
ones may be picked as mangoes;
grapes, jelly, jam, marmalade, grape
juice, cordial with spices; ounces
preserved, jelly, jam; carrots, diced
and canned; sweet potatoes, boiled and
canned; corn, canned or cut from
cob and packed in stone jars, one inch
layers of corn and salt alternating,
and dried in sun; cucumbers, picked;
gherkins, picked; pumpkins, canned
for pies; kedshaw squash, canned.
dried; Hubbard squash, canned, cab
bage, picked raw or cooked, sauer
kraut; peas, canned and dried; spin
ach, canned; tomatoes, canned, chilli
sauce, catsup, preserved, as "chutney,
canned with okra and corn, soup;
peppers stuffed with chopped cabbage
and onions for pickles; beets, plain or
picked; egg plants peeled, sliced and
canned; onions, picked; beans, can
ned; okra, canned plain and with TO-
matoes and corn.
Many farmers may find it difficult to
sell canned and preserved goods to
stores, and haven't the time to hunt
purchasers among the consumers. By
helping them find buyers among the
retailers or consumers, the women's
clubs in the towns and cities of Geor-
gia can render valuable service. 1t
is suggested that exchanges could be
organized in the towns to which the
goods could be brought and which
would find buyers for them. To this
end, the women's clubs ase asked to
take the matter up Immediately. The
Georgia chamber of commerce is send
ing letters to many prominent womel
asking their aid in forming marketing
organizations and asks that all wo.
men interested in the welfare of Geor-