The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-07-30
Waste Crop


y the small boys apple core-"they
ain a-goin to be none," says the
Fruit Grower. But even in lean years
on fruit, truck and other farms, there
is enough wasted crop to add greatly to
the farm s financial statement for the
year, providing that which went to
waste went, instead, into cans.
Home canned vegetables and fruits
are more highly priced than the reg
ulation commercial product, and any
quantity above the needs of the family
finds a ready sale. There is one lesson
the home Gamer may learn with profit
from the canning factory. The com
mereial factory seems able to get more
canned products from a given quantity
or vegetables and fruit that the house
wife, and this difference of handling,
cooking and packing.
Home Canning Outfits.
Home canning outfits vary in kind
from an open hot water boiler to cook
ing under steam pressure. The latter
method offers quicker process OF
handling, as it requires only about fiji
teen minutes to thoroughly cook batch.
But with either kind of outfit several
hundred cans Of fruit or vegetables can
be handled daily with only moderate
household force to do the work.
The home canned goods should be at
tractively labeled and the quality of the
goods and pack carefully inspected. The
selling value is in tho quality of the
coods, which means that seeds and grow
ing plants require careful selection, fer
tilizing, cultivating and handling at the
right time. The higher the canned pro-
duct averages in appearance and palat-
ability the moro money it will BRING on
the market The second grade will sell
for less. but even so it will earn fair
profit.
Receipes for Canning.
Home canning outfits are coming in
to larger use each year. Manufacturers
supply buyers with recipes for canning
and preserving according to Commercial
canning standards. Can manufacturers,
label markets, and those producing other
supplies arc seeking the trade of the
homo eanner
| A broker told recently how this bust
ness is growing to proportions that at
tract the wholesale groce- and grocery
broker. To get a carload shipment thu
broker drove through the country buy
ling one hundred to one thousand or mor'
cans of fruit OF vegetables from the
farm housewife. The e. IDS are graded
re labeled and distributed through the
retail grocer trade.
It is said the consumption Of home
lcanned food is increasing at the rate Of
q pcr CEN year. In this connection
there exists an opportunity for mum
Der Of people.
Dried Sweet-Com.
IF YOU ere to hunt through the
grocery stores of dozen cities 1T II
almost sure you could not find a pounc
Ior old fashioned dried sweetcorn. Hark
ling back to the days of our boyhood
Tasting again in memory the palate
ravishing succulence of sundrled sngal
corn, seasoned to taste and dressed witt
lsweet milk, we realize the poverty OF
Language. But the younger generation
though it may think the contrary, ma
never reached the height of corn flavo1
unless it has made feast of this well
nigh forgotten delicacy. Someone, ont
dozen, or one thousand, who elect tt
sun-dry sugar (not field, but sugar
Icorn this season; who will pack it il
half and pint round strawboard boxes
place label reading "Aunt Hester
ISun Dried Sugar Corn" with the rec
ipe for preparing it also printed there
on, is going to realize higher pric
.lfor corn than they ever knew in al
ltheir lives.