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Show Farm Woman Is U. S. Canning Champion Great- interest has been occasioned among local housewives in the announcement an-nouncement from Chicago of the prize winners in the National Canning Cann-ing Contest held recently. Among .the Utah county women who had entries en-tries in the contest were Mrs. A. B. Harris of Lehi, Utah. The grand champion winner in the contest was Mrs. Mary Hvass of Fully 75 per cent of the prize winning jars, including Mrs. Havess', were put up by this method. Mrs. Hvass processed her prize peas in the pressure pres-sure cooker which she uses every day in her cooking, and attributes the greatest part of her success in winning winn-ing the prize to her method of canning. Kennan, Wis., whose entry of a quar-of quar-of green peas brought her $1250. Mrs. Hvass was awarded first prize of $250 by the judges for the best entry in the vegetable class, and $1,-000 $1,-000 as grand sweepstakes .prize for the finest jar of food in the three classes of vegetables, fruits and meats. The first prize of $250 in the meat class went to Mrs. Dudley Brooks, of Roba Red, Ala. for a jar of chicken, while Miss Margery Drew, of Athol, Mass., won the prize of $250 on a jar of pears adjudged first In the fruit class. In all $5,825 in cash prizes was distributed to the 208 winners in the contest in which more than 25,000 women and girls from every section of the United States had entries. A significant .faot revealed by the contest is that American housewives are abandoning to a great extent the old-time canning methods, like the open kettle, cold pack, hot pack and water bath, in favor of the steam pressure cooker method advocated by the U. S. Repayment of Agriculture. |