Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-03-22
CHAPTER XIV.
Women Arc Interested.
COPYRIGHT, 1918,
By HARPER B BROTHERS.

squirrel pie and we'll baked turkey
hen, both Of which Joe had provided.
Powerful little, son. Why?'
"Well, if you had a chance to learn
would your
''Of course, if l had canning outfit
and somethin' to cam
"All right Wait minute" Joe
left the table and returned with a
pamphlet out of a bundle of several
the mail carrier had left that morning.
"Here it is, one Of the government
bulletins. Gives you the whole thing
right here. If you'll just study this
until you get it fixed in your mind I'll
buy you nice canning outfit
THAT would be mighty nice and a
big help next winter to have plenty of
canned huckleberries and blackberries
and plums and peaches and things to
make pies OF. We'd live high!'
I'm going to plant lot of tomatoes
and snap beans. Those that amt
fancy enough to sell you and sister
Annie can pick and put them up.
There'll be plenty of them
'I'll bet you could make some money
on 'em, wife," suggested Mr.. Weston.
II know what they pay for canned to-
matoes wholesaler
"How much. pa?" inquired Mrs.
Weston.
"They pay the wholesale grocers so
cents dozen and retail at 10 cents a
can-$1.2O Dozen"
"What do the cans and all cost to
put 'em up?' persisted Mrs. Weston.
. Il don't know. except from the re-
port of the Girls Tomato club work.
1t says there that the cans and labels
cost about cent and three-quarters
each and estimate cost Of tomatoes
and labor for each can at a cent
Mrs. Weston did some mental arith-
metic.
Even then there's fair profit in it.
The person who grows the tomatoes
and puts 'em up gets the cent. Real
ly, the cost is a cent and three-quar-
ters can, amt it,"
Her husband nodded.
III bet you could sell many dozen
to boarding houses and hotels in town
AL q OO1ldl II OOLtu. ~ "Oulu
an additional profit Of 20 cents for
you and saving of 20 cents for them
over what they'd have to pay RETAIL
suggested Joe.
1T looks pretty good" announced
Mrs. Weston. 'You get me that can
ming outfit, and I'll make a try at it,
"All right If win that scholarship
| won't be here next spring. ma. and
you can have my prize corn acre to
raise tomatoes on, and it won't cost
you a cent for fertilizer. 1t will be
plenty rich. You ought to clean up a
pretty nice pile
"All my life I've wanted some way
to make some money of my own" said
Mrs. Weston. Now see the way.
and I'm going to follow it. You men
needn't think you are the only money
makers. Just watch Annie and me
with my chickens and canning outfit!'
Tell you another scheme, ma. I'll
set aside three nice spring pigs. You
and Annie fatten 'em up and turn 'em
into that fine smoked sausage next
winter. Ill bet you can make lot on
that too"
''Well, that's fine plan! Never
thought of it. And | heard Mis- Allen
in town complainin' that she couldn' t
get pure pork sausage from the butch
ers any more-they filed it up with
beef scraps!' enthused Mrs. Weston.
We'll try that too
Isn't bit of reason in the world
why all the canned fruit and vegeta-
bles farmers buy out of stores shouldn't
be put up on the farms. Save heap
of money reflected Joe.
"'Stid Of that chuckled Mr. Wes-
ton, Il see these here trifin' farmers
a-buyin' canned termatters an corn
an such an haulin' it out where it
ought to grow an be saved
Il knows where there's a big pile of
tomato cans behind the barn!' an
nounced Annie proudly, trying to get
into the drift of the conversation. The
whole family exploded into laugh.
"Im guilty, sis!" chuckled her ia
Their. 'Just as guilty as any of the
rest of 'em, but was sort of hopin'
nobody would throw it up to me-
eve won't do it any more,' assured
Mrs. Weston. ''You get me that can
ming outfit and I'll start practicin' on
early vegetables-peas, beets and such.
Then by the time tomatoes are ripe
I'll be ready too Can we afford it,
though? Those canning outfits are
dreadful expensive, amt they?'' she
asked with some apprehension.
ooh, I don't knowv' replied Joe cas-
lily. "The one the Girls Tomato clubs
use, tested and recommended by the
experts of the agricultural department,
costs about $3.50, and the cans and
labels a cent and three-quarters
maybe about a cent and a half If
label is not counted"