Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-04-06

easily to the hotels, restaurants, and
milk customers. He was able to sell
almost all of them until the green ones
were gathered.As long as we could get
dollar bushel for the tomatoes fresh
and as we were SO very busy with the
work of dairy, l thought it best not
to can them.
" After school began was kept very
busy in picking the tomatoes, For sew.
eral weeks it took me three evenings of
the week to get over the entire patch
and often gathered over ten bushels,
During the second and third weeks of
September we had so much rainy
weather that could not gather the
tomatoes, and after the rains they be.
gan to ripen so rapidly that many of
them split, On the 18th and 18th Of
October | had to gather the green to.
matoes, l gathered 1883 pounds,
There was no sale for these. We used
all we could and / gave some to the
neighbors, and still great many went
to waste, as they were wet when they
were gathered, and as il turned warm
again, they rotted very fast. As we
had great deal Of company this sum
mer, and because our other garden vege-
tables were not as good as usutal, we
used more tomatoes fresh.
81 made collection of canned
fruits, vegetables and meats, which con.
sisted of the following: Tomatoes,
beets, white wax beans, green podded
beans, celery, carrots, picked onions,
beet greens, pumpkin, shelled beans,
pears, apples, plums, peaches, cherries,
strawberries, raspberries, white and
purple grapes, sausage, chicken, corn,
watermelon pickles, and gooseberries.
/ exhibited this collection at the state
fair and woE first, second, and n
fourth on it and my other club work.
l did all this canning by the cold
packed, hot water bath process. also
canned, alone, 80 quarts of windfall APP
pies, ten quarts of gooseberries, six
pints Of beans, 100 quarts of tomatoes.
] also helped with the canning of the
strawberries, cherries, peaches, tomato
butter and catsup, apple jellies and
gooseberry jam.
AS to my other club work. | wi
say that | was at Des Moines during
the state @ir, and helped to record and
care for the exhibits sent in by club
members. / also gave canning dem.
onstration for the county teachers
meeting at Clarinda on the 26th of
September The demonstration was
held in the domestic science rooms at
the higha school building. / took my
own Gamer, tomatoes and apples, and
most of the other necessities, besides
most Of my collection TO show the diff
ferent things one can conserve by this
method
"As summary l viii state that my
expenses were 1851 and mp profit
Sll5.57, besides winning $23 in prizes at
the state fair. have enjoyed the
work, although it has been long and
sometimes n bit lonesome. II has been
q way by which could not only have
my own spending money and pay my
expenses at the farm camp, but l also
have bank account Of 500.
Another member OF the garden and
canning club in the northern states
whose work is worthy of special men
tion, is Miss Sara Dickinson, of Sharps
Vile, Pennsylvania. She won first
prize In her state with q record of a.,
| 9G6 pounds on her tenth-acre. Her
costs were $l2.33; her net profits, S's..
81. 1t is difficult 60 compare the prof
its made by the various young women
in the garden and canning clubs, as
the market price of fresh vegetables
differs very widely in different parts
Of the country, and member with q
very good crop may sometimes have 10
sell at very low price, because OF
prevailing market conditions.