CHAPTER XVI 



CANNING THE GARDEN SURPLUS FOR 

 WINTER USE 



THE fullest meas-ure of benefit from the gar- 

 den has not been obtained unless one has 

 preserved for future use the more succulent forms 

 of vegetables that are not susceptible to preser- 

 vation through vi^inter in the usual form of cold 

 storage. 



Those early vegetables which are so keen an 

 incentive to the planting of a garden — young 

 beets, spinach greens, string beans, limas, peas, to- 

 matoes and the like must be preserved in a cooked 

 form, hermetically sealed from the air to preserve 

 them from spoiling. This the commercial can- 

 ners have done for years and we have been con- 

 tent to let them do this work for us at a price that 

 has added materially to the high cost of living, 

 while our own garden product, often of a far 

 better quality, has gone to waste. Market gar- 



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