HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK 



steam pressure canners. Thousands of homes now use such 

 cookers, not only in canning, but in daily cooking of meats, 

 vegetables, puddings and other articles of diet. An inter- 

 esting incident occurred during the visit of some Home 

 Demonstration Agents to France in the summer of 1919, in 

 co-operation with the American Committee for Devastated 

 France. These agents took about two dozen pressure canners 

 with them. It seems that canning in France is a factory, 

 rather than a home enterprise. The people of France were 

 very favorably impressed, however, with the little portable 

 canners, driers, fireless cookers and other equipment used by 

 the visitors from America. One manufacturer installed ma- 

 chinery for working aluminum and made more than a thou- 

 sand steam pressure canners. He put them on the market 

 while the American delegation was there. His business is 

 still increasing rapidly. 



It is getting to be an ordinary occurrence for a Home 

 Demonstration Agent and a small group of women co-operators 

 to can a whole beef, or a hog. They have recipes for using all 

 parts of the carcass in various products; consequently, there 

 is little waste. The canning of meats is making rapid progress 

 all over the South and especially where there is little cold 

 weather and inadequate refrigerating facilities. The efforts 

 to standardize meats into sausage, steaks, scrapple, puddings, 

 roasts and other things soon get results similar in effect to 

 the vegetable and fruit articles. It enables the maker to estab- 

 lish and advertise a brand and the consumers soon learn about 

 it. Such work leads to interest in curing meat also. It has 

 been observed that when the girls and women on a farm put 

 up excellent food in attractive packages it gives them a pride 

 in their home and farm. It frequently causes them to give 

 the farm a name because it looks well on the label and on 



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