Arkansas State press., 1942-08-14
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We are in the middle of the
canning season and homemakers,
white and colored alike, are fill
ing their pantry shelves with
home canned fruit. vegetables and
meat. According to answers to a
QUESTIONABLE sent out to repres-
entatives families by the Bureau
Of Home Economics, 1887 900, 900
jars of food will be canned at
home this year. Why, that's en-
ough jars to belt the earth seven
times, OF bringing it closer home
enough to fill five rows of pantry
shelves( fur shelves high and
three jars deep extending from
New York to California.
Estimates show that 9s percent
| Of the farm families will can en-
ough to average 2i3 jars per fam
+, lily, rural non-farm families will
can enough to supply each family
1874 jars, white city families will
can enough to average Al jars per
family.
Homemakers have an excellent
opportunity this year to can
peaches because the crop is so
abundant Here are some tips
from BHE on how to save sugar
when putting UP peaches.
Slice the raw peaches, heat them
then pack them hot in their own
juice, and process them. Put
sugar directly on the peaches be-
fore you heat them --- by doing
, this you help draw out the juice
and also waste no sweetening. Let
the fruit stand this way for q
few moments to start the juice
flowing. Then put the kettle ON
the stove and heat the peaches
slowly until the sugar has dis
: solved and the fruit il hot through
out. Put the fruit with its juice
in jars, and process them in a
water bath Gamer.
Slicing peaches to can them is
recommended over halving because
it allows for extracting more
juice for canning and also for
getting more fruit in each jar
which is important in view of the
shortage of containers and rubber
for canning purposes.
However, if you do want your
peaches canned in halves, make a
syrup to pour over the peaches
in the jars. Process in the same
manner as sliced peaches canned
in their own juice. Use the pro-
portion Of 5 cups Of sugar to a
gallon of water. This makes a
light syrup, in accordance with
your sugar ration.
You can also use honey or corn
syrup ms a substitute for part of
this sugar. Use equal parts of
honey and sugar, or two thirds of
the cup proportion in sugar and
one third in corn syrup.
Housewives, cheese will be fea-
turned as a Victory Food Special
from August II through August
20. BY using more cheese. you
can help tighten the load on meat
supplies which will be short for
the next couple of months.
With the addition of fresh pears
five fresh fruits are now avail
able to participants in the Food |
Stamp program. Here's the com
plete stamp list for August fresh
pears, peaches, plums, apples and
oranges. Also on the list are all
fresh vegetables, including Irish |
and sweet potatoes, she'll eggs
hutter, corn meal, hominy (cornl |
grits, dry edible beans, wheat |
flour, enriched wheat flour, self !
rising flour, enriched self-rising |
foulr and whole wheat (Graham)
flour.
Farm wages rates on July
were the highest in % years.
But don't get the idea that farm
hands are getting rich. Let's take
a look at wage rates in the South
where almost all Negro farm la
borers work In Virginia the ay-
eragc is Sl.60 day with board, /
or 500 a day without hoard; in
North Carolina the average is
Sl.35 with board or S1.70 without
board; in South Carolina it's 90c
n day with board, or $l.15 without
it; in Miss, it's Sl.05 day with
board, $3.50 without it; and in
Georgia it's 81 a day with hoard. /
on Sl25 without board In Other
areas the rate is somewhat high
err, ranging up to S4.s5 a day in
the state Of Washington.
Egyptians will have less than
half as much cotton to pick this
year as they had last. Reason.
Egyptian farmers cut their cot
ton acreage So percent this year