Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 13 | As I Remember

rip U C 5 The Utah Canners' Canners association announces that it will hold its annual an annual an- an nual convention In Salt Lake on January 9 and 10 at which a number number number num num- ber of ot matters in connection with the canning will come up for discussion and the outlook for lor forthe the industry for the coming year will be carefully gone over This I meeting recalls the long ago before the canning industry became an Industry in industry industry in- in I of the present great magnitude magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude when fruits and vegetables were largely put UIl at home will recall canning days in the families in a neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood when arrangements were made long in advance when on ol ai stipulated day the tinsmith woul 1 visit the locality and would seal the cans cane of the cooked or preserved product And what a busy day that was was was' If the tinsmith with his soldering kit cit had promised you that he would be at your home at 9 o'clock on a certain morning he would be there and one was wag expected ex expected expected ex- ex to have hae the vegetables all an anre re ready dy and he would lay layout out his soldering Irons and mother would have the tin Un cans which held just justa a quart filled by the help of ot the maid in thos days they were called th the hired girl and the little square pieCe e of tin wo would ld be placed over the hole In the can about the I diameter o of a silver dollar which would be soldered on and after atter all ah al althe the cans were tilled filled with an awl the he tinsmith would pun puncture ture the top of the can to let the air out and then a drop of solder and the sealing seal seal- Ipg ing was completed and then he would move to the next house where the same same- same thing would be repeated And of or the pres preserves preserve that were put up in those days Real sugar syrup preserved ed them cooked in with the fruit that was being preserved preserved preserved pre pre- served in sugar The day before the preserves were to be cooked how we would devote the larger part of 1 the day to the shining up of the big brass kette so brightly that it wasas was wasas as good as a mirror to look at for I preserves es then could be made only In a brass brass' kettle lettle And Anti say but I they ther were good With all aU due deference def clef to the canning industry preserves made in those days cannot can can- I an-I not be compared with those of to todar today today to- to day dar for tOr they were real preserves made only as mother could make them Ah me those were the days davs ays And then came the open mouth fruit jar which was sealed with a cork corl and sealing wax sUpplanted supplanted sUp supplanted sup sup- planted the tinsmith And those big loun round l corks were ere good for fOl another an another an- an other thing besides corks for the jar One of ot them with feathers all allaround allaround around the cork Just inside the edge and a Tail nil sharpened to a afine atine a afine fine tine point and fifty feet of ot string attached and it could be thrown at atan atan atan an apple wagon going as ls Ls straight as a die pierce an apple and then yanked ranked out of the wagon Well VeIl with fifty tifty feet teet of ot string to start the owner of the apple apple wagon could never catch up But that was in the long ago