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Show (CANNED GOODS NEAR 5 BILLION From Small Beginning Industry In-dustry GrovTs to Great Ly- Magnitude WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. From a "mall banning the canning of food lift srown Into a billion dollar industry. indus-try. An figure these days oven the production of a billion dollar worth ..f food .1 year might fnil to ImprcuKj l.ut when tbi" figure H translated Into ihc to six billion cam of food it 1 almost more than the human mind rlfltKE WnJLTO'S CAXS c of cans of. food proi u r j 1 i 1 ; l a I ' Mill: 1,046,823.192 "Meat 271.94S.I88 1 Ai Hemps 140,878.704 Tot.il Number of cans . 3 9S6.060.6 1 s . s Jj pt ' ' and other niiscHlaneou meat prod-ui prod-ui ts. The census claaalflcatlon on thl overed only the value and did not include in-clude number of pounds or cases. xThe I od In pounds. In the above flcui' It I pounds represent? one cae. I Therefore taking into nr n'.j.nt- I -ted and canned meats, other mlftcolla- neous tnext products, and mo I i iees I and syrup, the gr ind total above ta'i- I ulated would approximate close to 5.- J 000.00'i.Oon cans. RMY OFFICER PAYS riUBUTl Not only does the United Eftatei ilOw I panned foods but this food 1 tne best ft 12. S A., of Washington, Chief of Bub- liatence, Quartermaster General's of- I flee, recently said. I "American canned foii la the best J ... I lions. The French are known for a I certain Inch t;r.il- .ul1 i)i' Nor- I weglans havr attracted attention uirii I Maby Carrots. I have no doubt, how- I ever where special claims are made for I foreign goods, our own people feel I confident they are meeting the same jS" standard of excellence DOWN TO N'ORMAL l "We arc about down to normal with I our army food supplies now that we I have our shelves cleaned up and the I buying will naturally In.--ease. I yen-1 I ture to say our purchases will l- Ll heavier than during the list two ye&i 7' You can get an idea about what our n i times alone; other lines when He I say tii.it that bur requirements i"i Hfi tn comlns fiscal will . W something like: E 1 860.000 cans laaorted Jam 3-i F 144,000 cans blackberries K I .-vl ana tnal 149,000 jars assorted marmalade 29,000 cans ,i tried srvi lL 108 irted pr i ves. - 1 n.-i ( k-. i lion i ; : u W M.'"'.) bans t '.."l0 bottle? i 1 .,!).-. i t) . I . 72,000 cans (1 quart) ollres BII.Mon DOl I u INDUSTRY All of which gives an idea f tho r Immense amount of canned food co - 1 sumed In the army alone. Accord- I lug to government statistics canned products In the United States nmoint- L , ed In lJUCi to over 800 000,000 and al J lAt from J Jhii no n .000.- b the canner for raw producta Considering Con-sidering the wheat crop of 1921 which was worth about f 1 000,000.000, it Is readily seen that the canning crop of 191I represented about one-fourth Of the value of the 1921 wheat crop to the farmer |