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jars, one bird to a jar. Fill jars with cold water, 

 and add one teaspoonful of salt to each jar. Put 

 jars on rack in the washboiler, fill with cold water 

 to neck of jars, and sterilize for three hours after 

 beginning to boil. Perhaps it should be specified 

 that the tops of the jars are to be put on loosely 

 when placed in the boiler and tightened when re- 

 moved. 



The giblets and bones are boiled for soup stock, 

 in just water enough to cover. Remove all the 

 bones, allowing the meat to remain in the soup. 

 To each quart jar of stock, add a teaspoonful of 

 salt, one-quarter cup rice, and a couple of stalks of 

 celery cut fine. Sterilize in the same way as chicken. 



This is the cold pack method as recommended by 

 Government experts. 



It is an established fact that the hens lay just as 

 well when there are no roosters in the pens ; also 

 that infertile eggs are the best for putting down in 

 water glass. Every hen that ever lays at all lays 

 in the spring. For this reason eggs are plentiful 

 and relatively cheap at that time. That being the 

 case, it is a prudent and economical plan to put 

 down as many as possible for use in winter when 

 eggs are scarce and high. Many housekeepers, 

 whether they have their own flocks of poultry or 



