Canning the Garden Surplus 



deners who supply the canneries grow vegetables 

 with a keen eye to their productiveness. If one 

 vegetable will produce a half or a third more to 

 an acre than another variety somewhat better, it 

 is only human to grow that one, but the private 

 garden is not, as a rule, grown with a sole idea 

 of profit; it is quality and the enjoyment of the 

 product that is looked for and only those veg- 

 etables that will produce a high grade product 

 will be grown. 



The home canning of vegetables has been neg- 

 lected owing to the uncertainty of results. Oc- 

 casionally one found a housekeeper who could 

 can corn successfully, but the results usually were 

 unsatisfactory, all this, however, is changed since 

 the government experts of the Agricultural De- 

 partment have, by careful experiments along the 

 lines of all sorts of vegetable products, worked 

 out canning schedules that only require careful 

 following to insure success. 



The government bulletins give explicit instruc- 

 tions as to necessary equipment, method of 

 handling each separate vegetable and try, in all 



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