The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1916-04-27
CHAPTER XIV.
Women Are interested.

II II Joe ultCl luII justice Nat
- been done to the sayory
squirrel pie and well baked turkey
hen, both Of which Joe had provided
"PoWertul little, sou WhyT
"Well, if you had a chance to lean
would you}'
"Of course, if l had canning outfit
and somethin' to can"
"All right, Wait minute" Joe
left the table and returned with a
pamphlet out of Il bundle Of seyera
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 III
buy you a nice canning outfit"
THAT would be mighty nice and a
big help next winter to have plenty of
canned huckleberries and bIackberrieS
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,
Therell be plenty of them"
"IH bet you could make some money
on EN-, wife" suggested Mr., Weston
81 know what they pay for canned to
matOes Wholesale"
How much, pa?" inquired Mrs
| Weston.
"They pay the wholesale grocers 80
cents a dozen and retail at 10 cents a
can-$1.2O a dozen"
"What do the cans and all cost to
put em upY" 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 cent"
Mrs. Weston did some mental arith-
mCtiC
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 Il cent and three-quar
tcrs a can, amt it,
Her husband nodded.
"In bet you could sell many a dozen
to boarding houses and hotels in town
at a dollar Il dozen. 1t would mean
an additional profit Of 20 cents for
you and a 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 mako Il 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 outfitv
"Tel you another scheme, ma. III
set aside three nice spring pigs. You
and Annie fatten 'em up and turn 'em
into that five smoked sausage next
winter. I'll bet you can make a lot on
that too"
"Well, that's a fine plan! Never
thought of it. And l heard Mis- Allen
in town COmplainin that she couldn't
get pure pork sausage from the butch
ers any mOre-they filled it up with
beef scraps" enthused Mrs. Weston.
''We'll try that too"
isn't a bit of reason in the world
why all the canned fruit and vegeta-
bes farmers buy out of stores shouldn't
be put up on the farms. Save a heap
of money" reflected Joe.
"'Stid of that" chuckled Mr.. Wes-
ton, Il see these here triAin' 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,
Pm guilty, sis" chuckled her ia
Their Gust as guilty as any of the
rest Of 'em, but 1 was sort of hopin'
nobody would throw it up to me-"
1--WE 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? Thee canning outfits are
dreadful expensive, amt they?" she
asked with some apprehension.
"Oh, l don't know" replied Joe cas-
lily. THE one the Girls Tomato clubs
use, tested and recommended by the
experts of the agricultural department,
costs about $780, and the cans and
abels cent and three-quarters-
maybe about a cent and half if the
abel is not counted"
"My goodness | thought a canning
outfit would cost $50 or $25 or $50 or
some such awful pricer" she exclaimed {
with relief
q had no idce they were that cheap
myself" said Mr.. Weston. And with t
EN- as easy to get as that, just to l