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Show EKDRMOUS DEMANDS IDE UPMiERS BOSTON. Feb. 11. Tin plate makers have been asked to anticipate a demand for T.OeO.OO'.'.uOO cans for fruit and vegetables vege-tables in 1?1S, Henry Burden, president of the National Can net's" association, stated in addressing the opening session of the a nnual convention of that organization organ-ization here today. In 1? 16. he said, the pack was J.CM'O.OuO.OOO cans, and in 1917 It reached approximately 6.000.000,000 cans. C. B. Frltscho of the department of labor told the 3000 delegates and their friends of the plans that are under way to enroll school boys for farm work next summer under tlie boys' working reserve. City boys who do farm work will receive re-ceive a federal medal, and thousands ol" lads have already enrolled, he said. Chief Justice J. H. Covington of the supreme bench. District of Columbia. In an address told the canners that thin year they would have to provide our troops in the field and our allies with "one -third of all the canned tomatoes, one-fourth of all the canned reas. ali the canned corn, all the canned beans, all the canned salmon and one-third of all the con cie used milk produced in the United States." A t a business session of the Canners" association tonight. President Henry Burden of Casenovia, N. Y.. and other principal officers were re-elected. |