HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
ABOUT HOME CANNING 
In connection with canning, make it a point never to 
take your neighbor’s word as to how to do it. More 
failures are directly traceable to recipes handed about 
from house to house than are due to any other cause. 
Why not call to your aid the United States Government 
which has expended millions of dollars in accumulating 
the kind of information that will help home gardeners 
most. Write to the National Emergency Food Garden 
Commission, 210 Maryland Building, Washington, D. C., 
for their Home Canning Manual which gives detailed 
instructions for canning and drying vegetables and 
fruits. It may be had for a three-cent postage stamp. 
In addition, the United States Government is doing its 
best to help the thrifty housewife by the publication of a 
series of useful bulletins, all of which are at your disposal, 
free of charge, by writing to the Division of Publication, 
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Farmers’ 
Bulletin 839, Home Canning by the Cold Pack Method. 
Farmers’ Bulletin 521, Canning Tomatoes at Home and 
in Club Work; Farmers’ Bulletin 841, Drying Fruits and 
Vegetables in the Home. 
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