Show A T A Z 1 CITIES AND CANS 1113 fresl egge egga and ml T 1 which con consume at break fust fast are the only food products which now hye tg rone copie froni from figr pear tho spot where wr aro the rest at 0 our pod food requirements can c ome come frodi any place in our own country or from for orelan lands anti apt the boist of food tp taio consumer does not fript vary much buch lp in new york freta chrt in n chicalo or ar eban an fran francisco ilsoo the great advance in ig rapid transportation have done much to diminish the dependence ot at a city on its immediate hinterland but aft canning nning Is the principal reason why modern large cities can exist without the byge supply c foods which la in pow now annually put into cans there could be no new york chicago op DP san A century ago at least two third birdp of the pip people I 1 e in ohp viltee plates lived op fr farms ms but irl 1930 1030 t tte he f farm a rm population of this country constituted only twenty five per cent of the total in other words american farmers a century ago led fed a non tario farra population about half the size of the tin now tha population lation Is three times as larga arap as ap the farm population the editor rt ft ghert S in garden alty r N Y epst have had these facts lq i z atad rp ind when he wrote the follow following ipg editorial on tin cano some wise follow fellow onee ob peeved alint tho aholo history ot of n oderin r epli was ip in tin caps and herell he ware dore truth than la in that remark most alost of tio no have become so used to eating canned pleats eats canned fruits canned preserves canned milk and every other port of canned foods that wo we forget there was a day clay when there wa rt arly any such thing ar ai an airtight can YOU ato fresh meat those days lu in the winter yin ter tiros time when it ib would keep pr or elso else you ate afe dried meat driad meat or jerky was the he staple food carried by evory every trapper ang and pioneer in the early days when fresh food could not bo be had and ln in countries it was the same dayi flad every raap rac of people right back to the ancient a D egar 7 yr fians and babylonians Babylon lans used dried d meat as a big part of bf their staple food supply dried fruits made madd 1 up another big item in the bill of fare that was why the date palm was such an important thing in tho the desert countries countr coun triou iea ot of the east dates dried well and wore very nutritious find that in the hot countries like india and africa pepper and other spices and condiments gon camo came ino use for the reason aelion food be kept any too welli well but by seasoning the dish highly with spices you ou toll it the meats c or other ingredients maybo maybe lad had be some ouie a little too high ice ot of course was vas a very rood good preservative in countr countries Jes abero there was plenty ot of edid cold weather in the winter time the early colonists ts quickly learned to cut co in the winter and ana put it away hway ai f tho en I 1 could aa preserve their meats longer dur dur nl ing tho hot weather cut but whon the great man who invented tho tin can an cams along lie moved civilization forward hundreds of years even E von the cowboys and trappers who weva were as aa hardy a lot as ever lived discovered t the he ad advantages va nta of th the 0 tin can A cowboy who had to cross i a long waterless water le as stretch know knew that ho could make it in comfort on a can or two of tomatoes tho the juica aulca of which vatis satis fled lifs thirst at the same time th thai tho the pulp gave him nourishment i and any storekeeper in a mining g district or cowtown who lay jay in a good of tanned canned peaches and plums and ana such was likely to find himself lidl on a rail tho the first saturday a lot of hungry riders got cot to town the cowboy like all outdoor wo workers akers has a great ap potito for sweets and the canned fruits bulted him right down to hla his boot beels heels Sal sailors lors explorers travelers and the millions who fought in tho the world war know what cans meant in the way of food and comfort and to the everyday citizens cans mean just that aud and moro more they mean meat and lisa fish at all seasons so afons aswall as w 0 11 as fruits throughout tile the year dinst instead e ad of just during the lot hot summer mouths Yes Yesa sir lr tho the man who invented the tin can is deserving of a monument and it if all the empty tin cans left by careless shiftless campers were piled into one heap it sure would make a monument acif |