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Show Exploding Cans Vorry Food Conservationists i Health Officer Advises Anxious Housewives in Preserving1 Eatables. WI I ION the patriotic call for food conservation went out from the powers that be at Washington, Salt Lake housewives eagerly embiaced the idea ami forthwith forth-with proceeded to carry it into practice, with the result that things have been popping In local households ever since, not In the hackneyed metaphorical sense, but literally speaking. So loud, in fact, has been the popping that members of the households concerned, and in some Instances even the neighbors, have Jumped out of bed In the dead of night, thinking that their domiciles were in the process of being wiped off the map by bomb-dropping enemy aircraft. The Idea of food conservation has many ramifications. One of its tenets Is, "Do your own canning." Many Salt Lake women have responded to the appeal and taken it upon themselves to can their own fruits and vegetables, to the exclusion of the brightly labeled goods on the grocery shelves With few exceptions the patriotic housewives have had unmeasured unmea-sured success in getting the goods Into the cans. Their great problem has been how to make them stay there. For some reason, apparently unknown to the well-meaning well-meaning housewives, the cans frequently explode with a frightful detonation, scattering scat-tering deviled ham and string beans over the pantry shelves. Bert Hunt, chief of the sanitation division di-vision of the city board of health, who claims to know a thing or two about canning, gives the following advice to the worried housewives; 1. Be sure that the can is brimful and absolutely free of air before, sealing It. 2. Be sure to solder the cans securely. Tho explosions, Mr. Hunt explained, are due partly to gases developing when air is left In the cans before sealing, and partly to defective soldering. |