nn THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST
HomeMade Canning Outfit OutfitIn
In the paper of April 12 we pul pullislied pub publisbed
lislied an article on using a Lomemat Lomematcanning lJOmemadc lJOmemadccanning
canning outfit taken from Farm ai aiRanch and andRanch
Ranch Below you ou will find a d dscription de deflcrilltion
scription of the th outfit from the san sanpaper same samevaper
paper paperHaving vaperHaving
Having read Mr C Falkners r rcent re recent
cent article on canning factories factorieswish I Iwish
wish to contribute my mite to tl tldiscussion tbc tbcdiscussion
discussion of home canning outfitIast outfit outfitslast
last summer not having ten dolla dollato dollars dollarsto
to pay for a patented home canneI canner cannerI
I went into a hardware shore bougl bouglan bought
an 11 iron ham boiler for my No No7 7 stovhad stove stovehad
had a perforated sheet iron baski baskimade basket basketmade
made to fit inside the boiler so that thatcould I Icould
could lift out the cans easily I hn hnremovable had hadremovahlc
removable handles made for the bask baskmade basket basketmade
made of No 0 galvanized wire in tl tlshape tbe tbeshape
shape of horse shoes with the call callturned calks calksturn
turned turn ell into hooks had a pair of ire iretongs iron irontongs
tongs made to lift out single cans at atbought and andbought
bought a soldering iron weighing 01 01and one oneal1l1
and onehalf pounds These thin thincompleted tbings tbingscompleted
completed my canning outfit and co coas cost costas
as follows followsi
i iron ham boiler for No NO7 7 stoveic stoveicI
I perforated basket with handles I 125
1 pair iron tongs i iI 35
I soldering iron weighing 1 IYz Ibs IbsTotal 50 50Total
Total 31 31But 310 310But
But as my ham boiler is very ser ser1iceable sericeable
iceable in cooking hams turkeys et etand etc etc1IId <
and for heating water for varioipurposes various variouspurposes
purposes I feel that the canning pa paof part partof
of the outfit cost me only JJ210 JJ210With 210 210ith
With ith this cheap canner I put r rabout up upabout
about 200 cans of peaches pears ar artomatoes and andtomatoes
tomatoes and every can has kej kejperfectly Iept Ieptperfectlr
perfectly In fact their contents ai aias are areas
as sweet and apparently as fresh i iif as asif
if they the had been canned but yeste yesteday
day I did not use any preserving preservinfluid preservingfluid
fluid whatever I did not can ar arcorn any anycorn
corn or beans but shall try both ne neseason next
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season seasonWith seasonyith
With this simple durable ura le outfit outfitis it itis
is possible to put up from 150 to 21 21threepound 200 200threepollnd
threepound cans a day and the gooc goocwill goods goodswill
will keep as well and sell as high f fgoods as asgoods
goods put up by the best canneries i iCalifornia in inCalifornia
California CaliforniaEvery CaliforniaEeQ
Every farmer should have one onethese ot ottlle8e <
these cheap canning outfits Thei Theiis There Thereis
is no patent on them He and h hwife bis biswife
wife can can enough fruit or veget vegethies vegetables
hies in five days to pay for the out outand outfit outfitand
and 1000 cans and still have 500 car carof cans cansof
of the very purest and most wLolsome whole wholesome
some food for his family familyIn
In this connection let me tell Fan Fanand Farm Farmami
and Ranch readers how to use the thecans their theircans
cans for several years When hen yc ycget you youget
get ready to open a can of fruit g gan get getan <
an iron ring whose diameter is tl tlsame the thef
same f < as the cap on your can tw twinches two twoinches
inches i if the usual size heat tl tlring the thering
ring red hot and place it on the ca caso can canso
so that it will fall on the solder an anin nUll nUllin
in a few seconds the cap can he lifte lifteoft lirtCiI lirtCiIoff
oft As soon < oon as 1S the fruit is takeout take takenout
out wash the can out with boilin boilinwater boilinwater
water so that no acid poison ca caform cml cmlform
form in the can Save the cap I Ithis In Inthis
this way three same cans may be use usefor used usedfor
for several years yearsI
I am now figuring on the cost an anmaking and andmaking
making up the dimensions for a car carning canning
ning outfit that I intend to operal operalon
on my 111Y farm next summer I believe believI
I can with 40 put up a canning on onfit out outfit
fit that will have a capacity of liioO t to
2000 cans a clay 11n sinl that wojild mea meaa
a capacity of 00000 or 75000 cans cansseason n nseason
season seasonIn seasonIn
In another number of Farm an anRanch 1111 1111Ranch >
Ranch a correspondent discourses Il scourses o ocanning on oncanning
canning at home If there is a can canning canlIin
ning lIin factory near you it will be diffcult diff difficult
cult to sell them your crop unless yo yomake you youmale
make a contract beforehand See th thexperience the theexperience
experience of the Texas farmer in th thfollowing the thefollowin
following followingCanning followinCanning
Canning fruit and vegetables a ahome at athome
home is surely RtIrel a good way wa to do doThen 110Then
Then we need not take the chance chanceof
of finding filll1ill a fair market for what wi wihare we wehme
hare raised with so much trouble an ancare anll anllcare <
care and we need not haul our fruit fruiand fruitand
and vegetableg through throu h dust heat heatrain heatrain
rain or mud over bad roads and wi wican we wecnn
can use them up gradually rllluall while the theare they theyare
are ripening and 1111 we can gather only onljas onlyas
as many at the time as we want wantA
A friend told me of a poor farmer farmerwho farmerwho
who worked hard all the year ant antraised and andraised
raised a large crop of tomatoes be
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sides the field crop When he hauled haulethe
the greater part p rt of the tomatoes t tthe to
the cannery the canner told him tha thathe that thatthe
the market was overstocked with t tmatocs to tomatoes
matocs and he could not use his tt ttmatoes to tomatoes
matoes although they were very fin finrhe fine fineTbe <
rhe poor farmer did not know what whato whatto
to do and he went around in town towibut townbut
but could not find a buyer and went wentback wen wenback
back to the canner man telling fill fillto film filmto
to please give him as much as h hcould he hecould
could for his tomatoes as he coul coulnot coulll coulllnot
not feed them to hogs he had to difl dif dis1I0se
he could Th Thcanner The Thecmmer
1I0se l > ose of them the best
canner accepted this proposition ver verwillingly very verywillingly
willingly and gave the poor farmer farmcless farmerless
less than onetenth of what they werworth wer wcreworth
worth to him In this way we se sefarmers see seefarmers
farmers lose their labor every year yearmostly
mostly because the market is over oveistocked overstocked I
stocked when they are ar ready to se sewhat scll scllwhat
what their wives and children hav havraised have havemisell
raised with great trouble troubleWhen troublehen
When hen the farmer returns home wit witn with witha
n few dimes or still more debts an ansmother and andanother
smother lot of sad experience an antells aUlI aUlItells
tells his folks not in the best humor humorhow humorhow
how he had to do this casts a gloom gloorover gloomoyer
i iunother is isanother
over lite hi < workeddown wife This
another cause of his boys wanting t tquit to toquit
quit the farm and his daughters dreacing dread dreading
ing to marry a farmer farmerA
A correspondent of The FrogressivFarmer Progressive I IFarmer
Farmer expresses his opinions on th thsubject the
subject as follows followsThere followsThere I
There has been much said in ou ouigricultural our ouraticultural
igricultural papers lately about th thnecessity the thenecessit
necessity of canning the fruits an anvegetables and
vegetables raised on the farms am amturning aOlI aOlIturning
turning them into money moneyThis moneyThis
This is all right butthere but tbere is a still stilbetter stillbetter
better side to this canning business buslnesthat businessthat
that ha lI not been fully brought out oulThe outThe
The idea of selling the best of every everything everything
thing does not suit the writer W Wbelieve Ve Vebelieve
believe in supplying our own table tablefirst tablesfirst
first The housekeeper who has he hegantry her herpantry
gantry full of such things as cannei canneiorn canned cannedcorn
beans okmEnglish okra okraEnglish
corn orn string beans butter
English peas berries of all kinds kindsteaches Idndspeaches
teaches apples pears and other thingtoo thing thingstoo
too numerous to mention for winter winterand wintennd
and spring use is the most inde indeicndent independent
pendent woman living She know knowthat knowsthat
that no matter who should come ii iisuddenly In Insuddenly
suddenly to dinner she is prepared preparediirt preparedAllll
Allll iirt should h ulll no one come she has some something something
thing good for home folks whenever whenevehe whenevershe
she he gets ready and an that means ever everlay every everyday
lay if she has provided plenty plentyDid plentyDid
Did I say she has providedlidnt provided 1 1didnt
lidnt mean it exactly that way wayim I Iam
im writing this from experienceani experienceanican
I can truthfully say that my house houseveeper housekeeper
keeper hasnt put up a can In ten teirears tenyears
rears that some of MS men folk folkliavcnt folkshavent <
liavcnt had a hand in inSome inSomc
Some men expect too much from frortheir fromtheir
their housekeepers anyway and if i iwasnt it itwasnt
wasnt for getting oft the subject subjectwould I Iwoulll
would give them hail Columbia am amfull nml nmlrllh
full it in But the thing is to have havithese havethese
these things and plenty of them Wi Wilant Ve Ve1I1ant
1I1ant > lant one row of string strin beans fo fomilliner for forsummer
milliner why wh not plant two and pu pune put putone
one > ne up for winter I find these thingjust thing 1
just as good in January as they an ann nrel nrelin
in n Tnno What can be better than t twalk to townlk <
walk in to the table on cold drear drearlays I1reniY11t
11t lays s and find a steaming corn pudding puddingaw p1llllinraw
aw tomatoes to go along with tin tinmcon thehacon
hacon mcon and beans and cream am ameache aUlI aUlITJeaclll
TJeaclll eache for dessert Then just se selow see seehow <
how low pleasing the old woman looks looksam
I am always glad I had a hand in it itIf
If course if you ou have more than yoian yon yoncnn
cnn an use you ou can sell them themMail themI themMail
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Mail Order Houses HousesMany HousesMany
Many of our state exchanges have haxCad havehad
had ad much to say lately about the fol folf folly
ly f of the man who sends away to a amil amail
mail mil order house for his goods in intead
stead of buying them from the mer merhant merchant
chant at home and helping to build up upome un unhome
home ome industries There is some force forcei forcein
in i the argument but will the local localtore localstore
tore keeper buy a barrel of potatoes potatoesf
of f you at two dollars if he can save savep
= 0 p cents by sending away for them themhe thcmThe
The he following from Wallaces Farmer Farmera
is a very fair statement of the ca cae caeF < = e eF
F E J of Humboldt county Iowa Iowarites Iowawrites
writes writeshI rites ritesI
hI I would like to have you answer answerirotieh answerthrough
through the columns of Wallaces Wallacesarmer VallacesFarmer
Farmer armer the following question Arc Arcle Arethe
the le farmers saving money by patron natroning patronizing
izing ing mail order houses or will it in inle inthe
the le end be detrimental to their in inrests interes
teres rests restsFarmers ts tsFarmers
Farmers who have been patronizing
THE SECRET OUT
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elous attacks bogus formulas and other othcuntruthful otheruntruthful
untruthful statements published concertIng concert concernlog
log Doctor Pierces Worldfamed Famil FamilMedicines Family FamilyMedicines
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publish all the ingredients entering
his Favorite Prescription forwome forwomeand for women womenand
and his equally popular PQ > ular tonic altenlive alten alterative
live known as Dr Pierces Golden Mot Motleal 1011 1011leal
leal Discovery Hereafter every bottle bottlof bottleof
of these medicines leaving the tb grea greaLaboratory great greatLaboratory
Laboratory at Buffalo N Y will bea beaupon bear bearupon
upon it a full list of all the ingredient ingrediententering Inredientsentering
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made entirely from native roots of rar rarmedicinal raro raromedicinal
medicinal value The ingredients c cthe of ofthe
the Golden Medical Discovery bcin bcinGolden being beingGolden
Golden Seal root Queens root Stonroot Stone Stoneroot
root Black Cherrybark Mandrake roc rocand root rootand
and Bloodroot The Favorite Prescrii Prescriition Preseriptlon
tion Is prepared in a similar manner manncifrom mannerfrom
from Blue Cohosh root Ladys Slipper Slippcroot Slipperroot
root Unicorn root Golden Seal root an anBattleweed and andRattleweed
Battleweed root these ingredients bcin bcinmacerated being beingmacerated
macerated for a long time at a rather rathehigh ratherhigh
high temperature in a menstruum con conposed composed
posed of chemically pure glycerine c cnail of ofmail
nail order houses can answer th thjuestion this thisquestion
question better than we can Tl Tlvhole The Thewhole
whole question is Can the farm farmnty farmer farmerbuy <
buy nty the same quality of goods cheap cheaprom cheaper cheaperfrom <
from rom the mail order house than 1 1ran he hecan
ran from his local store If so sohere is isthere
here any good reason why he should shoullot shouldnot
lot do so and save money for hinelf him himself
self elf The local store keeper will c course of ofcourse
course insist that it is the farmerlutv farmer farmersutv
lutv utv to patronize his home stores am amis and andas
as is lie puts it keep the money in th thommunity the thecommunity
community It is difficult however howeveo howeverto
to o see very much logic in this argtnent argt argument
nent If the farmer can buy fror frorheTnail from fromthe
the heTnail mail order house a suit of clothetr clothe clothesor
tr an implement for 1500 which whicvould whichwould
would cost him at his local stori8oo store
> i8oo the farmer has saved 3o 3oThe 300 300The <
The money is still in the community communityThe communityThe
The only difference is that it is i ihe in inthe
the he farmers pocket instead of th thtore the thestore
tore keepers and the farmer wi wirobably will willorobahly
robably > make just as prood use c ct of ofit
it t as s the store keeper will We Ve con coress contcss
tcss ess we have nr > sympathy whatever whatevevitli whateverwith
with the theory that the farmer ought ougho oughtto
to o pay the store keeper an extra profit profitn profiton
on tn something which he can buy else elsevhere elsewhere
where cheaper cheaperThe cheaperThe
The local store keeper however ha hame has hasone
me just reason for complaint W Wiave Ve Vehave <
have iave noticed in one or two of ou ouountry our ourcountry
thi thiut tllis tllissnhiect
country exchanges a discussion of
snhiect ut iect by the store keeper W Wtoticed Ve Venoticed <
noticed one this week in which a local locatore localtore
tore keeper announced that he wotilunlicate wotil woulildunlicate <
unlicate any price made by a mail maiTclcr mailordcr
Tclcr house provided the buyer wouliay would wouldnay
That is fail failrono fairf1ronoitiou
nay ay cash and freight a
f1ronoitiou rono ition The trouble is that mail mailirmers many manyfarmcrs
farmcrs irmers expect the store keeper t tarry to tocarrv <
arry them for from three to si silonths six sixmonths
months When the store keeper doe doehis doesthis
this his he must have more than thaneasonable a areasonahle
easonable profit He is out the inter interst interect
ect st on his money and he will certainly certainlyse certainlylose
lose > se a percentage of these account accountle accountsHe
He le must therefore charge enough for foiis forhis
his is foods to make him whole on hi hiredtt his hiscre
cre redtt it business and the burden fall falln fallon
on n the rash ash Iniyer If the local storeener stor storftener <
tener eener has the nerve to require cash caslom cashfrom
from om everybody there is no sroof sroofnson oon oonrf1
rf1 nson < 011 why he can not sell to th thirrripr the thef <
f irrripr > n heap as the latter can bin binnywhere hu hul1ywhere
nywhere else Unless he will do this thise thishe
he e must not blame the farmer for buy buyig buying
ing ig where his money will go furthest
proper strength The exact working workingformula workfnformula
formula for making these medicines cost costDr costDr
Dr Pierce and his collaborating Chemists Chemistsand Chemistsand
and Pharmacists many years of study studyand studyand
and experiments but as perfected they theyproduce theyproduce
produce almost perfect pharmaceutical pharmaceuticalcompounds pharmaceuticalcompounds
compounds embodying all the active activemedicinal activemedIcinal
medicinal principles residing in the In Inptrcdients Ingredients
ptrcdients employed and this too In such suchform suchform
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changed in any climate Thus the use of ofalcohol 01alcohol
alcohol is entirely avoided avoidedPKOOF avoidedPROOF
PROOF POSITIVE POSITIVEWithout POSITIVEWithout
Without solicitation Mrs H Harrison Harrison3f
3f 112 West 2d Street Sioux City Iowa Iowawrote Iowawrote
wrote us as follows followsI
I suffered for more than seven years with withi
i very complicated form of female trouble troublaaccompanied troubleaccompanied
accompanied with nervous prostration and andafter andafler
after doctoring with six physicians all bear bearIn bearIng
Ing In excellent reputations was informed that thatunless thatunless
unless an operation was performed I would wouldbe wouldbe
be an invalid all my life Hearing of the thewonderful thowonderful
wonderful cures effected by Dr K V Pierce Pierceremedies Pierceremedies
remedies and believing that there must be a aure acure
cure ure for almost every ailment I determined determinedlo
lo make one more effort I wrote to Dn Dnfierce DrPierce
fierce and I will never forget his kindlyidvice kindly klnd17advice
advice telling me to follow his Instrnctlonr InstrnctlonrFaithfully Instrnctlonrfaithfully
Faithfully and not to submit to an operation operationI
I I commenced to Improve alter six weekstreatment weeks weekstreatment
treatment and in fire months my improve improvement Improvewent ¬
went was so noticeable to friends that the thetegan thebegan
began to Inquire about my method of treat treatraent treamento
raent I was pleased to tell them of the woa woailerfnl wo woderful >
ilerfnl means of cure that I had most form formlately fortunately
lately found and as so many ladles applied appliedto
to me for Information regarding Dr Pierce Piercetrorld Pierceworld
world famed medicines and his plans of oftreatment oftreatment
treatment I felt In duty bound to give ve them themthe themthe
the benefit of my experience so told then thenthe themthe
the facts The large number of positive positiveures IIOSltI IIOSltIcures
cures effected by Doctor Pierces remedies remediesllone remedIesalone
alone used by my recommendation seemed seemedin
in one years time nothing short of a mir miricle mIracle
icle I couldnt have believed it had I not notieen n nseen
seen the parties and known the facts factsDr tactsO
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