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This represents the necessary stock in trade for a 
start. Of course if the bottled fruit can be held until 
it can be put on the market to the best advantage, 
better prices will be realised. Again, two sterilisers 
working at the same time would increase the profits and 
not double the work. 
This is an industry which private women might well 
take up in their own homes and make a great success of 
it with care and perseverance. For instance, two friends 
Gould start’ and make a nice little business as a 
season’s trade. “This book, let us here remark, is not of 
course written for the trade, but for private individuals 
and rural Co-operative Societies. 
We trust that this full explanation of the process of 
sterilisation, with the description of sterilisers and 
bottles, may put the matter clearly before our readers, 
and that they may be induced to try this interesting 
work, especially as it has been clearly demonstrated 
that it can be made to pay. We will now turn our 
attention to the best method of bottling soft fruit. 
