The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-24
TOO HIGH TO CAN FOR 8 BIC DAY
Fruit Shelves Topeka First Annual Reunion of
Homes This Winter. Division Men Here.
Scarcity H c. of and Missouri Fight
Sugar Cause. Come September 26, %, q
MANY PUT UP VEGETABLES TOGETHER LAST FEB. Il
One Shawnee Family Stood in Six Inches of
Potatoes Year Round. Awaiting General Pershin,
County Canning Clubs Topeka Citizens Must Help
State Fair Prizes. Caring for Boys.
MANY PUT UP VEGETABLES
One Shawnee Family Has Sweet
Potatoes Year Round.
County Canning Clubs Are After
State Fair Prizes.

Fruit closets of Topeka homes will
nave vacant shelves next winter, To-
peka housewives agree, for the snow
storms that blighted the fruit bios
SONS, together with the high price of
sugar. make canning Of fruit almost
impossible.
With the exception of blackberries.
fruit has been exceedingly scarce this
season. but II fruit were plentiful
sugar at 80 cents a pound would
brighten the most coura geous house
Vile out of filling shelves with home
canned fruits to supplement the winter
diet OF her family.
Community Canning Rejected.
A community canning proposal out
lined by Miss Irene Taylor. county
demonstration agent, intended 10 aid
topeka housewives in canning thru
the home economics committee of the
Woman's club was an excellent plan,
the club women agreed, but it was re-
Jected by the club, probably because Of
the high price Of materials.
Isn't the rice OF sugar enough to
make canning prOhibitive ?" Miss Tay-
Tor was asked
1T may be so" Miss Taylor said,
but the exorbitant prices TO be asked
for canned goods next winter will also
be too high for those who are fight
ing high prices-this summer. Many
will have to do without canned fruits
is not done now
Fruit can be canned without sugar
or with very little sugar, according to
Miss Taylor, altho this method is not
favored by housewives because the
fruit flavor is not so well preserved
without sugar.
Turn Attention to Vegetables.
Women of the country are proceed
ing with canning, Miss Taylor said,
using what fruits they can find, often
purchasing crates OF fruit from city
stores. But the large part of their
attention is being paid to canning
vegetables, she said, particularly
beans. corn, tomatoes and sweet pO-
tatoes.
Many have never heard of canning
sweet potatoes. but Shawnee county
women are proving it can be done. One
farmers wife said her family thorOly
enjoyed eating hOme-canned sweet po-
tatOes last winter, and that they were
much like fresh sweet potatoes Miss
Taylor said. Fifty quarts of home
canned beans also appeared on this
family's table last winter.
The winter diet is inclined to be
too full of protein" Miss Taylor said,
"aud should be supplemented with
vegetables"
Canning Clubs Are Busy.
Canning clubs have been esta blished
and Willard by Miss Taylor, with Il
total membership of eighty mothers
and daughters. The ElmOnt club,
which won first prize for canned
goods at the Hutchinson and Topeka
fairs, and second prize at Wichita, is
preparing an exhibit for the Interna-
tioual Soils exhibit TO be held in Can
ada this fall.
All of the county canning clubs will
participate in a canning contest on
August 4 to determine which club
shall represent the county at the state
fairs
Our canning club is one Of the
greatest things that ever happened to
our community" said the leader of
the lmont club. We are canning
more. we are canning less extensively,
we are using better canning methods,
and we are developing community
spirit in the canning meetings. as well
as a spirit of cooperation among the
housewives"
Canning teams will assist anyone in
canning, by arrangement made with
Miss Taylor.