PRACTICAL EXERCISES 23 
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5. Making a canner. A wash boiler, a fifty-pound 
lard tin or similar vessel with a lid may be used for a 
“‘eold pack’’ canner, All else that is necessary is a 
false bottom or rack platform which will lift the glass 
jars from the bottom and permit the circulation of the 
water under and around the jars. 
In order to make a rack secure some strips of wood 
one-half inch by one inch or one inch square. Make a 
lattice-work platform that will fit in the improvised 
canner, with open spaces between the strips of such 
size that two fingers may be inserted. This may be 
done by determining the approximate length of the 
several pieces, nailing them together, and then by 
placing the lid or bottom of the canner on the platform, 
marking the outline of the bottom. Saw off the ends 
of the strips about one-half inch back of the mark. 
This will make it easy to get the platform in and out 
of the eanner. Secure a piece of telephone wire of 
such length that two loops of wire for handles may 
be twisted around the platform, extending to the top 
of the canner. A third piece of wire may be twisted 
around these loops parallel to the platform at such a 
height as to act as a guard rail and prevent the glass 
jars from sliding off when a load is lifted in or out of 
the canner. 
