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Show Planning For The Immediate Future Tho following la takon from n circular cir-cular letter from John Scowcroft & Sous company and should bo of general gen-eral Interest: ' An exceptional demand to bo witnessed wit-nessed this season. Head following notices and oxcerpts from trade papers. Wo aro rollably informed that tho U. S. department of agrlcul-turo agrlcul-turo Is planning to put on a very oxtonslvo campaign for tho homo canning can-ning of fruits and vegotables. They ask that before matters aro finally shaped'that they bo furnished with an ostlmato of all tho glass Jars of all sizes now In tho hands of retailers, re-tailers, wholesalers and manufacturers, manufactur-ers, nnd other data which will show them what quantity of Jars will bo avallablo to tako caro of this s6a-son's s6a-son's crop. Wo aro also Informed nnd quoto for your Information from tho International Inter-national Nowa, Chicago, April 10th, "No moro bakod beans, hominy, kraut, oils, tobacco, raolasso3, or lard Is to bo canned in tho Unitod States during wnr tlmo. This decision was rcachod today at a conforonco of can-ners can-ners and Jobbers of canned products. Tho mooting was held nt tho request of Mr. Houston, secretary of ngrlcul-turo, ngrlcul-turo, who urged that only perish-inble perish-inble fruit3 bo canned owing to tho shortago of tin plato. Wo understand that the department depart-ment of agriculturo Intends to send out oxperts, both men and women, to demonstrate to tho housewives tha bottling of vegetnbles of nil kinds, as Well as fruits. Wo therefore bollove that this effort on tho part of tho department, de-partment, together with much general gener-al publicity work on tho part of other organizations, along similar lines, will greatly Increaso tho salo of fruit Jars this season. The following from "The Canner": "Putting Up Things." "ft Is suspected that if the housewife house-wife docs her preserving on an es-tensivo es-tensivo scale this year she will havo to placo her chief reliance upon tha i Mason or somo other Jar. If she I prefers tho tin can sho will find It I exceedingly scarco and commanding a materially higher prlco than sho has been accustomed to pay for It. Sho will probably decide that glass-i glass-i waro Is proferablo to tlnwnro, but i when oho Inquires about tho lattor i sho will bo pained to discover that Jars, too. have risen and moreover. I aren't particularly plentiful at any price. ' Sho will, In fact, find both Jars and cans present 'In such restricted re-stricted numbers that sho almost certainly cer-tainly will bo reminded of what oho has heard about tho scarcity of hen's teeth." |