The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

send them the names of merchants who will handle their output. I try to put them right, and many have secured city customers through a suggestion.
 But this brings us back to the subject Of canning again. How can I find market for all my stuff" asks the farm
 CT. The shortest answer I know of Is community camera plant where the whole section and neighborhood can drive with their surplus and watch it put into cans, to be kept until ready to sell
 INFANT INDUSTRY A BIG HELP
 In the infant industry which has just been started, the Alabama Canning and Marketing company, we have one of the greatest helps ever started in Alabama. It is a school In itself. Through it's ex- perts who go from community to com munity the farmer will be educated along the lines of conserving waste. He will be taught what kind of seed to plant and
 when best to plant to suit the canning industry. This company, backed and cap italized by our best citizens and mer- chants, have established to date 31 com munities canneries in Jefferson county alone3 with a dozen or more scattered over the state. Their range is only linn lted this year by the shortage of cans. contract has been placed for 65 car loads of cans-about 4,550, GOO, to be more accurate This sounds good. And when these cans have all been filled with a standard pack and placed on the market of Alabama we will have made start needed years ago. Georgia and Tennes- see are about five years ahead of us. But the success of this first year will so en- thuse all communities and sections that we will overtake and pass our neighbors.
 It is within the range of possibility for any housewife or group of women to get small home canning outfit. They are { 4y,ax v,-irr md n ha sad hnt1 a day if need be. One family can use it several days and then passed on to an- other They are very light and can be carried about as easy a s an oil stove. On small home canner outfit from 200 to 500 cans per day can be safely put up. EXPERT TALKS ON TOMATOES A. Dewey Smith, an expert in the can ming game is now putting up the com munity steam-pressure branch plants for the Alabama Canning and Marketing company, and reports more enthusiasm l in Alabama over the industry than any place he has ever visited 'I will erect a model branch at Guntersville," said MT Dewey, ''as this section of the state Is | one of the best It took but a few hours ! to raise all the necessary stock for | large and modern plant, and the occasion | was a great turning out of the best cit izens of that section The farmers need educating along the line of what and how to raise and how to grade all stuff to go into cans Beans should be planted about the same time by all. This insures | a crop that will mature about the same time; all will be uniform in size and age, ! and thus good and even pack In the l cans is assured. The same with potatoes. When potatoes are dug they should be graded; all small ones put to themselves 1 and the large ones likewise; one day the | plant should can all small ones; the next | day, large ones. This is the secret of | canning. Have a uniform and even pack I and the merchant will have no trouble l in keeping up his trade on certain
 brand But let it vary-one lot good, the next poor-and his customers soon switch ] to another brand
 1 "In planting tomatoes a great mistake is made by many truckers and farmers in blowing the crop too often. I always ! blow my plants twice, for after this the | roots meet between the rows and in lbreaking these fine roots 1t causes a rot | Another mistake with tomatoes Is ir
 pruning and stalking them. After culti-
 vating the second time and having the rows free of grass let nature do the rest Let the suckers and vines bend over and take root. They will have as good a crop as the parent plant. and you will find a drouth can be stood much better by vines in this condition than by those
 staked up and trimmed"
 The Alabama Canning and Marketing company will handle all accessories need ed in canning at a small margin of profit It has also contracted to handle tho output of all branch plants established on a per cent commission basis Thi. insures a cash market, and takes the
 worry off the producers shoulder. as th' |subjectt of marketing has kept Alabama and other sections of the south in tn, background for years.
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 directing the packing and canning at the
 various branches, and any individual who
 wishes information on the subject and a
 practical demonstration of the method, will be welcomed at headquarters with out any cost whatever.
 | So it's a case of can this year If the burdens of next season are to be light ened. How much better to so to the
 pantry and get a home made quart oi