CANNING ON THE Farm 1259 
he holds his goods rather high in market and the buyers 
pass him by he can take the vegetables back home and can 
them at a profit, while the other man who has no canner knows 
that if he does not sell his goods on the market he will have to 
dump them somewhere at a dead loss. The consequence is that 
he takes about any price the purchasers care to offer him. 
The ownership of a home canner gives a man backbone when 
he goes to market. In all transactions it is a principle well es- 
tablished that one or the other sets the price. A willing buyer 
makes a fair-priced article while an anxious seller reduces the 
purchase price. In all lines but farming the seller sets his price. 
Fic. 355.— Every ONE BecoMEs USEFUL IN THE CANNING SEASON 
which will cover the cost of production, but when it comes to the 
sale of farm produce many times it seems as though this rule 
was reversed, for the price seems to be set by the dealer who says, 
“‘T will give you so much.” And because the producer has no 
other place to sell, nine times out of ten he will take the price 
that is offered, even though he may know it is below cost of pro- 
duction. Then he will go back home to produce more goods at 
the same low offering. This I believe is wrong. I believe that 
every grower is entitled to a price that will cover cost of produc- 
tion, and the home canner will help him obtain it. 
The possession of a home canner makes a home market that 
will cover cost of production, and whenever the city market offers 
