The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-19
COFFEE GOING up NOW; NO FOOD
PRICES TO LOWER, SAYS SANBORN

largely, and this year there has been
considerable hesitation in making
contracts. As to the California evap-
orators the first contract prices have
been literally advanced for prunes,
instances as much as Is per cent, with
much of the prospective crops re-
naming to be sold.
The Palladium has advocated and
insisted that every one having foot
of garden soil ought to grow some
thing on it. To this we will now add
don't waste thing that you can
either can or preserve"
Much home canning was done in
1918, the most in our history. But
even SO. it seemed to have very little
effect on the demand for factory pro-
ducts, thought the home Gamers I'M
doubtedly saved their households mil
lions of dollars
According to DIR. F. P. Lund of the
Department of Agriculture there were
put up in domestic kitchens in 1918
of fruits and vegetables, "a, 604 ,531
containers, estimated to be worth
sic, 566,000; meats and fish, 1877 900
containers, worth $50. 463; dried fruits
and vegetables, 8,982,700 pounds, es-
timated to be worth $685. 500; brined
and sailed vegetables, 1,006,2 gal
Ions, worth 1882, 808 The total value
of home-canned foods and foods dried
and brined last year, according to DIR.
Lund's figures, was SIT 1852 1853, but
there must have been packed many
| millions of cans of vegetables and
fruits that were never reported, be-
/ cause the department dealt largely
| with canning club statistics, and the
reports from Home Economic teach
ers, county agents, etc., and had no
means of knowing how much more of
this work was done by millions OF
| homemakers.
F., Thousands Of Canning Clubs.
DIR. Lund states that in 1910 the first
canning clubs for girls were started in
| South Carolina with forty-seven mem
bers. In 1918 there were 23,096 OF
| these clubs, having a membership OF
| 286,278 girls and 1929 women. He
| says that these were the enrolled
members, but on account Of the wal
| lots of emergency work was carried
on and, besides the regular members
! 2,278,199 white women and girls and
247,143 negro women and girls were
enrolled.
A careful consideration of the home
| canning figures given for a single
southern state leads to the conclusion
that but for the home gardeners anG
| conservers of fruits and vegetable:
last year, we should really now be
paying still higher prices for many
food supplies. Now that the war is
over and the tension and pressure
| somewhat relaxed, we are likely tt
become careless as to food growing
| and conserving, but if SO, 1t will be
a most serious mistake.
| The foreigners are soon to invade
our markets. They will probably make
heavier demands on us than did Mr.
Hoover during the struggle, providing
they can raise the money or arrange
credit for the goods. The California
/ fruit growers and packers are antici
i pating just that and are calculatin.
that they are largely independent o
1.-The home market Perhaps when tn,
government catches it's breath thos,
/ great Pacific coast combinations will
be curbed and regulated, and thi
regulation cannot be accomplished to-
soon.
A Surplus of Fresh Beef.
/ A Chicago special dispatch to tn,
New York Times, dated June 18th
and relating to fresh beef supplies
says:
Wartime economy of meat has be
come habit, with the result that tn
packers have some 100,000,000 NOR
pounds of beef to sell every month
than the public desires to eat Thi
i, means, it is claimed, that until tn
, domestic demand can be increased
there will be a surplus of beef on tn
markets of the United States.
Il Here is the packers point of view
as expressed by Swift & Co.:
voluntary conservation of meat an
other food products, which became