HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 



ABOUT HOME CANNING 



In connection with canning, make it a point never to 

 take your neighbor's word as to how to do it. More 

 failures are directly traceable to recipes handed about 

 from house to house than are due to any other cause. 

 Why not call to your aid the United States Government 

 which has expended millions of dollars in accumulating 

 the kind of information that will help home gardeners 

 most. Write to the National Emergency Food Garden 

 Commission, 210 Maryland Building, Washington, D. C., 

 for their Home Canning Manual which gives detailed 

 instructions for canning and drying vegetables and 

 fruits. It may be had for a three-cent postage stamp. 

 In addition, the United States Government is doing its 

 best to help the thrifty housewife by the publication of a 

 series of useful bulletins, all of which are at your disposal, 

 free of charge, by writing to the Division of Publication, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Farmers' 

 Bulletin 839, Home Canning by the Cold Pack Method. 

 Farmers' Bulletin 521, Canning Tomatoes at Home and 

 in Club Work; Farmers' Bulletin 841, Drying Fruits and 

 Vegetables in the Home. 



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