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receipts, and report at the end of the season’s work to the local 
leader. 
Such a project vitalizes school work, makes it easy for the school 
teacher to reach the home, bridging that awful gap between the 
school work and the parents. It trains the girls to work together, 
to follow plans laid out by leaders, employing new and tried out 
methods which always find their way into the home. 
Our girls, especially, should be interested in canning club work, 
and if they become members of the club that is being instructed 
by one who is appointed for that work, they are receiving help 
that their mothers are often unable to give them because most of 
the canning has to be done at the busiest time of the year. Then 
too, the girls are learning the shortest and best methods of canning 
which saves labor and time, and the products canned by this ap- 
proved method are superior to those put up by the old methods. 
Home canning takes care of surplus meats, products of the 
garden and fruits of the orchard. The windfall apple that hereto- 
fore has never been utilized, can be turned into a canned product 
and used in many different ways. 
Vegetables and fruits that are very plentiful cannot possibly be 
utilized in their season, and will go to waste if they are not canned. 
A splendid method of cooperation is to organize boys and girls 
into market garden clubs. Their members grow and sell their 
vegetables to the members of the canning clubs who have no time 
to care for a garden and are glad to be supplied with products 
fresh from the garden, instead of those brought into town by rail 
or over a long, dusty and sunny road and have lost much of their 
freshness. This procedure is of mutual benefit to both the garden 
and canning clubs. 
Some very good canning outfits are manufactured which clubs 
are using with marked success. However, such an outfit is not 
necessary for home canning. A washboiler with a tight cover is 
very satisfactory. If the cover is not quite tight, a piece of cheese- 
cloth should be put over the top of the boiler and weighted at the 
corners. Then, when the cover is put in place, very little steam 
will escape. A wooden rack should be made and placed in the 
bottom of the boiler so that the cans will not come in direct contact 
with the heat. 
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