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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*Dy leaders, employing new and tried out 

 methods which always find their way into the home. 



Our girls, especially, should be interested in canning elub 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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