Secretary of Agriculture asks
Every Household to can and
Dry their Surplus Fruits and
Vegetables
Lvery housewife this year should restore to her home the often
overlooked home industries of canning, preserving, pickling,
and dr> ing of perishable fruits or vegetables. The large numb
er of new back-yard gardens which have been planted this year
shortly will begin to yield their extra harvest of beans, peas,
carrots, beets, sweet corn and tomatoes. The regular supplies
also will reach the markets and, as happens each summer, the
local supply at times will exceed immediate consumption capac
ty. Not to conserve much of this surplusage of valuable food
would be sinful waste.
The present food and labor situations are such that no house
hold is justified in looking to others to release it wholly from
individual responsibility and constructive action in saving and
conserving food. All any home should expect of others is to
supply those foods which can not be produced effectively by its
own members. The railroads will be burdened with the trans
portation of staple foods and civil and military necessaries from
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localities of production and manufacture to districts incapable
of supplying their own needs. It follows that all locally pro
duced foods, conserved by home methods, lessen the winter
pressure on transportation agencies and also release similar pro
ducts of factories for other purposes.
I urge every household, therefore, to can all surplus perishable
products for which they have containers and to dry and keep in
paper any additional surplus suitable for such preservation.
Canning calls for no special skill and for little equipment beyond
a wash boiler and jars. Fresh products, cleanliness, and heat
are the chief requirements, as even sugar is not essential for
canning fruits under modern procedure. Fruits and vegetables
moreover, can be dried efficiently in the sun, over a range or
gas stove, or before an electric fan. Homemade shallow trays
of wood or heavy wire screen are the chief equipment required
Drying is a time-tried home industry; conservation of food by
drying is largely a matter of restoring to the home great-grand
mother’s method of seeing that her family had good food in
winter as a relief from a monotonous diet of root vegetables.
Canning, of course, already .'is a profitable industry for women
and children in thousands of homes and I trust will become al
most universal this season. To aid the home conservation
movement, the Department of Agriculture has issued a new
Farmer’s Bulletin on home canning and another on home dry
ing of fruits and vegetables. These free pamphlets should be
read and followed in every household which wishes to translate
patriotic impulse into concrete service.
HOUSTIN,
Sec. of Agriculture.
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GROW nNE EARLY SQUASHES
Difficulty Experienced in North Where
Season Is Short—Wise to Start
Under Glass in Pots.
In many localities it lias been n dif
ficult matter in recent years to grow
fine squashes and have them fully j
ripened before frost came. This is es- j
pecially true at the north where the I
season is short, and difficulty is ex- j
perienced in petting the seed to grow I
when planted in the spring.
It is a wise plan to start pumpkins j
cucumbers and squashes in flower pots
under glass, so that the plants will
have a good start and will be ready for
blooming much sooner than those
planted in the open ground.
A three or four-inch pot will hold j
from oDe to three seeds and the plants j
may be allowed to become nice size
before being transplanted. The trans-!
planting is easily done, and there |
should be no injury to the roots.
Simply turn the pot over and strike i
the edge on a box or board. The ball
of earth holding the well-formed mass
of roots will drop from the pot, and
can be placed in the cavity made to re
ceive It; the plants will scarcely show
they were disturbed, and long before
other squash or pumpkin vines are in
bloom, the pot plants will have blos
somed. They will not need any protec
tion from pollen from other plants
causing danger of mixing, which is so
detrimental in recent years.
ELIMINATION OF ALL WASTE
Methods Which Have Been Discovered
for Developing By-Products—Use
Cull Potatoes.
Every farmer and fruit grower
should secure a copy of the annual re
port for 1915 of Chief Chemist Als
berg of the department of agriculture,
Washington, I>. C„ which tells, in
a most Interesting and instructive way,
of the research work done during the
past year and of the methods which
have been discovered for making new
uses of by-products and preventing
waste which is the bane of American
life.
Successful experiments were con
ducted in drying potatoes on a com
mercial scale for stock feed. In or
der to provide an outlet for cull po
tatoes, better methods were discov
ered for making potato starch, glucose
and dextrine.
It was demonstrated that a number
of valuable by-products can be ob
tained from the waste of canning fac
tories. Oil, closely resembling the oil
of bitter almonds, was found in cherry
pits. The other waste products of
the canning factories produced valu
able sirups, jellies and alcohol.
What farmers need most these days
is an outlet for surplus crops. The
law of supply and demand usually
takes care of the main crops.
SOY BEANS ARE LEGUMINOUS
Common Practice to Drill Them To
gether With Corn—Hogs Do Well
on Such a Ration.
(By E. PENCE.)
Like corn, the soy bean is a hot
weather plant and does best where the
season and soil are favorable to corn
growing. The soil should be prepared
the same as for corn, plowing deep
and working down to a fine, firm seed
I bed. It is a common practice to drill
soybeans and corn together, hogging
off in the fall. This is a fine combina
tion and hogs do well on such a ration.
Three or four beans to the foot in a
row is proper distance to sow when
drilling with corn. When drilled alone
it would be better to sow a little more
thickly.
As a forage crop the soy beaus are
about equal to alfalfa in protein value
and as palatable and digestible. They
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Soy Bean Plant.
belong to the leguminous family such
j as clovers, vetches, cow peas, etc., hav
ing the power of extracting the most
expensive plant food from the air and
I storing it in the soil.
} When sowing to a field where they
j have never been grown, the seed or
j soil should be inoculated. This can
j he done by taking soil from a field pre
; viously planted with soy beans and
i scattering it over the field you intend
j to sow. and harrow Immediately, or
j mix with the seed and drill.
I There are a number of varieties,
! early, medium and lute. The medium
will ripen in about 110 days. They
are great soil builders and often yield
two or three tons of hay and 20 to 30
^ ' bushels of seed per acre.
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