Show our part in feeding the nation special information service united states department of agriculture HOW TO SELL HOME CANNED PRODUCTS these home canned tomatoes Pimen toes and peppers are Attract lv enough to sell themselves NEARBY MARKET IS USUALLY BEST canning clubs should be able to guarantee packs of different products LABELS ON TIN containers As necessary to establish reputation for reliability as to have prod acts put up attractively cater to needs of buyers well stocked pantry shelves found tn so many american homes at the end of the canning season have not been enough in the way of food saving for many women and girls who last year especially through their organized clubs put up millions of jars and cans of fruits and vegetables la response to the world s need of food although some of this surplus canned food that the pantry shelves would not hold was sold on local markets and some of it was even shipped to nearby points here and there the home canners found that it was hard to sell the surplus one of the main difficulties as pointed out by the bu reau of markets was that the home canned products were not standard etan dard iced tor many cases were found where well selected carefully packed standardized goods brought good prices to the home canner beet markets local or nearby markets for home canned products are usually the best the attractiveness of the pack and containers affects its selling qualities merchants or other buyers do not want a miscellaneous assortment 0 products and it Is better practice to put different products in boxes by themselves and not to mix containers of peaches and peppers for example in the same lot when offering them for sale containers should be graded as to size and quarts and pints kept separate labels are necessary on tin containers and help sell canned goods etere products are put up by mem bers of canning clubs under organized supervision it Is possible to guarantee he pack of the different products as to grade and weight of measure this Is a considerable aid in selling since the buyer then knows exactly what he Is buying pooling products in case the products are pooled for marketing the different kinds of fruit or vegetables can be placed together in graded sized containers when pe haps the pack of any one individual might not be large enough to make up a quantity sufficient to attract buyers it Is as necessary to elsh a reputation for reliability as to have products put up attractively the marketing of home or club canned products can be made successful if the canners will study the marketing problem and cater to the needs of buyers when orders are secured in advance for products home canners debould endeavor to fill the orders on time and give the buyer the kind of products agreed upon why fait failure to make a success of beai keeping almost always results fr m lack of study 0 the of the bees combined with the failure to do things on time beekeeping Is essentially an industry which requires studious care and in consequence tha proper development of this branch 0 agriculture necessitates to an unusual degree the of information of a rather detailed nature while there are published bulletins and books which contain the needed information these have not proved adequate it Is quite possible for alie american beekeeping industry to be developed so that he honey crop will be ten times griat it Is at present not only would such a development be valuable in an emergency such as the present crisis but in normal times the beekeeping industry can provide a concentrated cent rated nutritious food almost universally ver sally liked and assuredly an article of diet preferable tc the inferior and jams sc commonly used QUARTS I 1 CANNED LAST YEAR girls canning clubs in the united states put up a total of containers of fruits and vegetables during 1917 counting in the canning done by the organized S clubs and through the home demonstration agents the total E canned product Is estimated at 5 quarts with a value of about and this does not include the products E dried and salted for home use S care of young horses give the weanlings wean lings and immature horses good care the colts should be given an ample supply of grain and good roughage in order that they may mature into useful work horses the saving of grain should be made with the idle mature horse and not with the colt there are many economical rations that can be fed to both young and mature stock depending on the local feeds available write to your state experiment station for information regarding the most economical rations to be fed in your state also write to the united states department of agriculture for farmers bulletin which gives information on the feeding and management of young horses inexpensive garden tools the cultivation of a home garden requires very little expenditure in tools A spade a hoe and a rake representing a total cost of considerably less thau 5 are all the bought tools necessary to be used everything else can be improvised A garden line can be made with a piece of twine tied to two sharpened sticks that serve as stakes A thin piece of board or a shingle can be made into a serviceable trowel A good and weader can be made by driving about tb ee small alls ralls r through the end ot a piece of lath A heavier weeder can be made from a piece of hoop iron with one end sharpened bent into A loop |