Show economist urges reuse re use of bottles in canning foods because the 1943 victory food foo preservation program la Is going t W take over five billion glass ja jars rs miss myrtle davidson Dav ldson assistant director or 0 home economics at the utah state agricultural college urges that utah housewives round up all the glass jars old and new that can do a job for or home canning this summer although many women have already made a practice of reusing commercial jars miss davidson points out that many more will have to do it this summer and nearly everyone can find a few more jars tucked away in cellars attics or cupboards for example jars that came into th the e house filled with peanut butter mayonnaise and so on can be used manufacturers this year are planning to make over halt half a billion glass jars but this means wo we need to 0 hunt up and use all the old ones in order to have enough to do the whole canning job declares mis davidson three kinds of new wartime jar tops are ara being manufactured all using less metal and less rubber than the old style screw on with the shoulder rubber fit any jar with a standard mason size opening and a deep screw thread the standard mason size opening Is two and five eighths inches in diameter but the best determine whether your bottle Is standard size and has the deep screw thread Is to try an old lid on it as you sort your bottles explained the home economist after you have sorted out this type of bottle you can buy new lids tor for them she continued some of the jars that came tilled filled with commercial products have a shallow screw thread even though the opening Is the standard mason site if youve saved the original screw on top you can use those jars again with a new metal disc with a flowed on rubber gasket it you have commercial jars with smaller openings save them too directs mis alls davidson Dav ldson new discs for them are sold in the grocery stores at the same place you buy the coffee or other foods packed in that size jar or one precisely like it for more information and actual size illustrations for each ot of tho the new types of jar lids being manufactured this year ask your local county agent tor for the glass jar leaflet tei te pa |