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opens his mouth and takes a teaspoon of cod liver oil before he takes his 

 meal, and he does not have colds. Dr. Funk says that if the mothers 

 wish to keep the children from having colds in the winter months to give 

 them cod liver oil and they will thrive on it. 



We say, "Very well, we can give fruits and vegetables in the summer 

 time, but how about the winter time?" There is a great tendency towards 

 meat, potatoes and pie in the winter time. The only way that you can have 

 the vegetables and fruits in the winter time, if you have not access to good 

 markets, is to store them, dry them or can them. The most popular of all 

 is the canning, and now I have started on one of my hobbies. Tonight 

 I overheard a woman say, "I wonder what Mrs. Gray is going to talk about?" 

 and the other woman said, "Canning. That is all she knows." [Laughter.] 

 So I will talk a little on canning, for evidently that is something that I 

 should know about. 



Canning is a wonderful thing and we should do more than we do. One 

 man tonight said, "I wish you would talk about canning, because I. think 

 my wife ought to can more than she does." That is the only way you 

 will get a big variety in the winter time. We can can fruits, all kinds of 

 vegetables, and all kinds of greens. We can a good deal in the summer 

 time for that is when those things are in season, but not only do we need 

 to can fruit and vegetables but we can go into the animal kingdom. There 

 are women now who are canning meat, and they would rather preserve 

 meat in cans than in any other form of preservation. Canned meat is 

 delicious. We should get into the habit of preserving our meat by putting 

 it into cans, either glass jars or tin cans. 



At Arthur, Illinois, there is a very interesting family. Some of you 

 know Mr. and Mrs. Seass. Mr. Seass used to be on the State Institute 

 platform. They turned an old building into a cannery and there they can 

 everything that grows on the farm. Not long ago Mrs. Seass was telling 

 a Chicago woman that they had just finished canning a whole beef. The 

 woman was very much surprised, she was amazed. She thought a while, 

 then she said, Mrs. Seass, did you say you canned a whole beef?" Mrs 

 Seass said, "Yes, we finished it last week." The woman said, "Well, I sup- 

 pose I shall have to believe you, but where in the world did you get a can 

 large enough for a whole beef?" [Laughter.] 



The other day a woman that many of you know in Illinois told me that 

 she had made more money from her canning last year than her husband did 

 from any other part of the farm, and he has a very large farm. She has 

 turned it into a paying proposition. Therefore, ladies, it is a thing that 

 is worthy of consideration. You can make money by canning. Anyone is 

 glad to buy home canned products and pay a good price for them. 



There are many other things that can be said about canning, and this 

 is just a little suggestion I want to leave with you to think about the possi- 

 bilities in this canning field. I want to tell you about the man in Chicago 

 who was clever enough to realize a possibility along that line. He saw 

 every Saturday these hundreds of chicken feet being thrown away by the 

 butcher, so he said to this butcher, "Will you save me all the chicken feet 

 that you have left from the Saturday's chicken sales?" And the butcher 

 consented to save all the chicken feet. The man steamed them so the skin 

 could be easily removed, and he found after cooking them he had a lovely 

 gelatine soup. To this he adds rice, and it is now on the market as home 

 canned soup, and he is making money, and he says he never made money 

 so easily in his life. 



The next commandment is, 



"THOU SHALT HAVE LABOR-SAVING DEVICES." 



We cannot dwell on all the different labor saving devices, only to say to 

 the men that they should see to it that the women have just as convenient 

 tools in their homes as they have in their work in the fields, or whatever 

 profession they are engaged in/ The labor saving devices save time, save 

 money and save fuel. There are many of them and every woman is justi- 

 fied in having them. 



