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21/2 qts. canned peaches 

 2 lbs. peach butter 



It should be remembered that the above fruit products 

 are made according to modern notions, not by the recipes 

 and rules of our grandmothers. 



THE CHAIRMAN : Before Professor Chenoweth leaves 

 the platform, one or two questions have come to my mind, 

 and I suppose some of you have thought of some things you 

 would like to ask him ; and one of these is, How are we going 

 to get these various methods to the consumer? "That has 

 been thought out, I know, in your department, and I would 

 like to ^ave yon take a few minutes and explain it. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : I have on every possible 

 occasion — and I have made lots of occasions — to give this 

 sort of a harangue on the reduction of the amounts of sugar. 

 It seems to me that the fruit grower himself might very ma- 

 terially increase the knowledge of his customers by having 

 printed some simple recipes for canning and preserving 

 along economic lines, and let one of those leaflets accompany 

 every order that he filled. That would be one way, — that 

 would be the producer himself coming directly in touch with 

 his customer, but there is one thing that ought to be done, 

 and. that is, the fruit growers ought to have a uniform set of 

 recipes. 



That is one of the hardest things that you have to com- 

 bat, — the fact that this organization would put out this kind 

 of literature and that other organization puts out something 

 else, and they are diametrically opposed. The poor con- 

 sumer says. "Where am I? Which one am I going to be- 

 lieve?" 



Even after you get your information across to the con- 

 sumer, you are going to have your difficulties. I will take 

 just a minute to state an illustration. One of my neighbors 

 said, "Professor Chenoweth, I read in one of the Springfield 

 papers some time ago something about your methods of mak- 

 ing jelly so I think I will try that method and see how it 

 works." I met her afterwards and I said, "How did it 



