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plished by insects, and the honey bee 

 is by odds the most important of them 

 all. Bees will pay for their keep in 

 honey, aside from their services in 

 fruit production. — Bulletin, University 

 of Missouri. 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 23 



Canning Fruit Without Sugar 



- High cost of sugar at the present 

 time is causing considerable worry 

 among the housewives who desire to do 

 their accustomed canning of fruit. 

 With the view to meeting this problem 

 the State Experiment Station at Pull- 

 man, Washington, issued a bulletin on 

 "Canning Without Sugar." There is a 

 common notion among housewives that 

 to do canning effectively, a consider- 

 able amount of sugar is necessary. 



Dr. J. S. Caldwell, author of the 

 above-mentioned bulletin, calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that practically all 

 fruits may be canned without the use 

 of sugar. Such fruit preserves more of 

 the natural appearance and flavor than 

 does the fruit put up in heavy sugar 

 syrup; is fully as palatable and much 

 more easily digested; is in better con- 

 dition for use in cooking, and is avail- 

 able for all purposes for which fruit 

 canned in syrup could be used. The 

 bulletin points out that while heavy 

 sugar syrup aids in a slight degree in 

 preventing growth of the yeast and 

 bacteria which caused spoilage, per- 

 fect sterilization makes the use of sugar 

 unnecessary. 



The bulletin gives detailed directions 

 for canning without sugar by the 

 "Cold-Pack Method" and by the "Open- 

 Kettle Method." Attention is also called 

 to methods of canning in tin cans, to- 

 gether with recipes for canning with 

 the use of sugar for those whose purses 

 will permit of this method at the pres- 

 ent time. A number of valuable sug- 

 gestions are made in regard to the 

 handling of fruits, containers, etc., with 

 a view to economizing labor and in- 

 suring a better preservation of fruit. 

 The bulletin may be obtained upon 

 application to tiie Experiment Sta- 

 tion. — Washington Agricultural College 

 Bulletin. 



Don't Summer Prune Raspberries 



The raspberry plant finds an espe- 

 cially favorable climate in most of the 

 State of Washington. The crops pro- 

 duced are usually far above the average 

 for the United States. The plants are 

 extremely vigorous and productive and 

 the quality of fruit produced is the best. 



The practice of summer pruning fol- 

 lowed in the Eastern States docs not 

 seem to be well adapted to tills plant 

 when grown in the Northwest. The 

 vines grow tall, often reaching a height 

 of seven to nine feet, and if cut back in 

 the early summer will branch and send 

 out good strong limlis. If iiruned a 

 little later in the summer the tendency 

 is to cause the vines to winter kill and 

 suffer to such an extent that the crop is 

 greatly lessened llie following year. 



Tests along this line at the .State Col- 

 lege of Washington indicate that the 

 best returns will be obtained b>- giving 

 thorough, clean cultivation and doing 



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