SUGAR FOR EOy\E CANNING 



Home canners may now obtain one pound of sugar for every four quarts 

 of finished canned fruit. An additional pound per year for each person in 

 the family may be obtained for making jams, jellies, preserves, and fruit 

 butters. One purpose is to encourage canning instead of preserving because 

 a less amount of sugar is used. Rationing for fruit canning will be on the 

 basis of the amount of home canning a family unit has nonnally processed, 

 availability of fruits, and related factors. This information is presented 

 by Secretary Howard Russell in a recent issue of The Farm Bureau in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Applicants may obtain certificates by filing OPA application form 

 R-315 v;ith the local board. They must supply the following information: 

 1. Naiiies of consumers for whom application is filed and serial numbers of 

 their Y>ar Ration Books. 2. Number of quarts of fruit canned last year. 

 3. Number of quarts of fruit in their possession. 4. Number of quarts of 

 fruit thej'- intend to can. 5. Vfhether sugar is to be used for preserving. 

 6. Excess sugar supply on hand when Yifar Ration Books v/ere issued. No sugar 

 allotted for fresh fruit caiining may be used for jams, jellies, preserves 

 and fruit butters. Sugar obtained on stamps in Tmr Ration Books may be so 

 used. If sugar alloted for home canning is not used in accordance with regu- 

 lations, stamps vrill be removed from V.'ar Ration Books to cover sugar improper- 

 ly used. (Source - V/ar Letter for Agriculture, 5/25/42). 



THOUGHTS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS 



In response to our "A penny for your thoughts" item last month, 

 several have appeared. Some are too difficult for a spur of the moment 

 discussion and others are too late to classify. So we have decided to post- 

 pone all of them until next month. The items include cause of strawberry 

 'hubbins,"uses of agricultural materials in the defense program, and a number 

 of peculiar symptoms appearing in apple trees this season. 



NICE-A RED OPPULI 



A few weeks ago we saw some very high colored apples of familiar 

 appearance in an eastern Massachusetts fruit stand. Pretending not to recog- 

 nize the Ben Davis character of the apples, we inquired, "V^hat variety?" 

 The proprietor ansv;ered, "Gano. Dey eat like-a da Mcintosh." He probably 

 meant that both varieties grow on apple trees. 



THERE'S A BO m IN YOUR BARNYARD 



This striking suggestion appears in an advertisement of a prominent 

 farm machinery firm with this explanation. "It's a dud, now. Just a pile of 

 junk. It's your scrap metal. Rusting away and no earthly good to you or to 

 the courageous man fighting this war. They need it. Their lives depend on 

 it. Your lives depend on it. Let Uncle Sam load this bomb for you J Scrap 

 metal makes munitions. A one-ton bomb requires 500 pounds of it. A 75 mm. 



