Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-10
PRICES EXPECTED TO INCREASE
TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY
PER CENT.
HOUSEHoLDERs CAN
MEET NEW SITUATION
Home Gardening Which Links Up
With Canning Urged by Truck Crops
Specialist at Iowa State College
Home Gardens Should Provide Veg
etables For Canning and Drying.
Special to Times Republican.

special TO Times RepublCan.
Ames, April 10.-Canned goods Of
every kind promise to go 25 to 80 per
cent higher in price than now, and now
they are much higher than a year ago.
That is the Judgment of A. T. Erwin.
truck crops specialist of the Iowa ag-
rlcultural experiment station, after
careful study of the vegetable canning
situation in Iowa and elsewhere The
situation can be met by householders,
he points out, by home gardening which
INKS up with home canning.
Prices are TO be higher, Mr.. Err
win believes, because Gamers are pay
ing more for their tin cans by at least
one cent per tin, and they are contract
ing to pay farmers and truck growers
more for vegetables of all kinds by at
least 81 or IS per ton. Back of that the
farmer and truck grower is obliged to
pay more for seed. For example
where year ago sweet corn seed could
be bought for $3.50 and SO per bushel
1t Is now worth $40 per bushel and
even at that price it is scarce and hard
~ SSS' ~a4A OliCi SCCuS dlSo COSI more.
That is likely to cut down the acreage
ana that in turn may cut down the to-
tai yield of the coming season.
Tin Shortage Is Serious.
Inc higher price for tin cans is due
to shortage that is alarming enough
TO demand special conferences on the
subject between the secretaries Of COM
merce and agriculture of the presidents
CABINET and the leading tin manufac-
turers. Recently such a conference dis
closed the fact that the tin supply is
now 3,5O0,O0O,00O cans short of the de-
mand. The enormous demand for
American canned goods in Europe is
jponsible for this situation and that
demand will probably aggravate it still
more. At the present time shipments of
Tin cans are being treated the same as
shipments of food stuffs
A general shortage of canned goods
in storage also adds to the certainty of
higher prices. Usually at this time of
year canning factories and jobbers have
In storage millions of cans of vegetables
but now the reserve stock is very low
In some lines it is exhausted. For ex-
ample, the sauerkraut stock is practi-
cally gone and corn and tomato stocks
are nearing exhaustion. A normal pro-
duction this year will not enable can
ners to put by reserve, for as soon as
canning begins the new stock will have
to be drawn upon for current needs.
Move Toward Food Preparedness.
To counterbalance high prices on so
important an item Of every pantry's
stock, Mr. Erwin says the home garden
needs to be planned to provide vege-
tables for canning and drying. 1t
should include corn, tomatoes, peas,
beans, beets and other crops that can
be put away for winter use. Only a
limited amount of perishable stock
should be planted. Then, too provis-
ion should be made early for canning
by a study of the best modern methods
and the purchase of necessary cans and
jars. With some foresight in these
matters the home food situation may be
met and some real contribution made
toward food preparedness in this time
of war