CHAPTER II 
STERILISERS AND STERILISATION 
In this and the succeeding chapter we propose to keep 
three main points in view :— 
(1) Why we should bottle fruit. 
(2) The different methods of doing it. 
(3) How to make it pay. 
Why we should Bottle Fruit.—First, to be independent of 
the foreigner; and, second, to spend English money in 
England—l\et it turn over many times here before the 
foreigner has it. Our rural population would be 
immensely helped if the money which their produce 
brings them, could circulate for a longer time amongst 
themselves in the villages; very often ‘a little man’s ” 
fortune is made or marred by his ability or non-ability 
to obtain capital for his venture, and in England as yet 
we have no definite system of Co-operative Credit 
Banks, as is in vogue on the Continent and in Ireland. 
Then, too, foreign competition cuts the prices for even 
good English-grown produce very fine. Nevertheless 
in the Midlands and other districts of England, the 
cottager looks to make his rent out of the fruit trees 
in his garden or allotment, and this he generally does, 
unless the season is very bad; and sometimes he has 
some money over. Added to this, in a very plentiful 
season he often has more fruit than it pays him to gather 
and send to market, and this is the very time when, in 
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