Show Economist Urges Use Re-Use o of Bottles In n Canning Foods Because the 1943 1913 victory food preservation program Is going t to take lake over ovel five Cie billion glass jars iss Myrtle Davidson assistant director of home economics a athe at atthe atthe t the Utah State Agricultural col col- college college lege urges that Utah housewives s round lound up all the glass jars of old d and anti now new that can do a job fo for r home canning this this this' summer summer Although man many women have already made madea a practice of reusing reus reus- lag ing commercial jars Miss Davidson Davidson David David- son points out that many more mor e will have to do it this summer r rand and nearly everyone can find a afew afew few more jars tucked away i In n cellars attics or cupboards Fo For example jars that came into th the e house filled with peanut butter Mayonnaise and so on can b bused be e used Manufacturers this year ar are e planning to make male over half a billion hillion glass jars but this means mean s we need to hunt up and use al althe all l the old ones In order to have enough to do the whole canning tannin g job jolt declares Mis Davidson Three kinds of new now wartime n jar tops are aro being manufactured all using less metal and less rubber Tubber than the style old-style screw screw- on with the time shoulder rubber They'll fit any jar with a stun stan daM daid size Mason opening and a 1 adeep adeep deep screw screw ad The st standard size Mason-size opening is two and f fe five fire e s Inches in diameter but the best bes st t way to determine whether your you r bottle Is standard size and has s the screw deep-screw thread is to tr tran try tryan tryan y an old lid on it as you sort your bottles explained the lie home e economist After you have sorted sorted sort sort- ed out this typo type of bottle youcan you youcan can buy new lids for them she continued Some of the jars that came carve filled with commercial products have a shallow shallo thread screw even even though the opening is the standard Mason sl If youve you've saved the original screw-on screw top you can use those jars again with a new metal disc with a on flowed-on rubber gasket If you kayo have commercial jars with smaller openings save them too directs Mis liis Davidson New Now discs for them are aro sold in the grocery stores at the same place you bu buy the coffee or other foods packed in that size jar or orCino orone one Cino precisely like it For more information and actual actual ac ac- foal size illustrations for each I of the new types of jar lids beIng being be be- ing manufactured this year ask your local county agent for Cor the glass jar leaflet I |