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Page Fourteen
THE WOMEN’S PAGE
Join the Canning Clubbers!
To save vegetables and fruits by can
ning, this year, is our patriotic duty.
We can lower the high cost of living
by so doing. We can help the European
countries by supplying the home market.
Last year we shipped 11,820,000 tons
of food to Europe. This year the Food
Administration has promised that Amer
ica will send 17,550,000 tons of food.
What does this mean to every man,
woman, and child? It means that we
must do our part, which we are planning
to do by canning all that we can can.
Now is the time for work. Don t wait
until the vegetables and fruits are almost
gone, and then start. Can and pickle
your beets before they get large and
tough. Canned beets are delicious for
salads.
To Can Baby Beets. When canning
beets, use only young and tender ones,
not over IV^ inches in diameter, prefer
ably an inch. Gather beets, and allow
at least two inches of stem and all of
the root to remain. This keeps the beet
from losing color. Wash, but do n.->t
peel- plunge into boiling water, and cook
until three-fourths done. Remove peel
ing, stem and root; grade as to size,
and pack symmetrically, filling with hot
water as you pack—never use cold water
on beets. Seal; process a No. 3 can
one and one-half hours. When canning
beets in glass jars, process quart jars
for one hour and forty minutes. Process
pint jars for one hour and twenty min
utes. . ,
String Beans: To can strmg beans,
select those that are young and terider,
and which have few strings. The green
pod stringless is a good variety. The
trade like a small green “rat-tail’ bean.
Gather the beans when young and
tender, remove strings and snap, put m
a thin cotton bag, and plunge into boil
ing water for from three to five min
utes, and then into cold water. This
removes certain acids, and makes the
flavor of the beans better. Never for
get this when canning beans. Pack
tightly in sterilized cans to within one-
fourth inch of the top, and fill with hot
water. Add one level teaspoonful of
salt (instead of hot water and salt,
a brine may be used; to one gallon of
water, add one-third cup of salt). Seal.
Process No. 3 can one hour. When can
ning beans in glass, process quart jars
one hour and fifteen minutes. (Stale
beans or mature beans necessitate one
hour’s processing on each of three sue-
cessive days.)
There is no reason why we cannot
have as great a variety of vegetables for
cur tables during the winter months as
summer months. The methods are sim
ple. and we can can anything from the
blackberry to the squash and pumpkin.
If you have not already been to the
Canning Station, on Maple Street, come
and see what we are doing. The Tallas-
see Power Company has everything
necessary for canning except you, your
vegetables or fruit, and your can. All
is free to you, so why not can all kinds
of good things for your table this win
ter?
In North Carolina we live well
Tho war makes prices high;
For we can raise what we can eat.
And we don’t have to buy.
Hoo-oo-ray! Hoo-oo-ray!
Oh, we don’t have to buy.
For we can raise what we can eat.
And we don’t have to buy.
Hoo-oo-ray! Hoo-oo-ray!
For crop di-ver-si-ty!
The Tar Heel can live well,
Tho he neither buy nor sell.
It’s a Ca-ro-li-na farm for me!
And we can eat what we can raise,
And we don’t have to sell;
So if they won’t buy cotton crops.
Why, let them go spell.
Hundred Per Cent. Baby
The front page of a recent number of
The Health Bulletin, issued by the Nort-
Carolina State Board of Health, is illu
minated with the picture of Richard •
Tyson, a one hundred per cent, baby, °
Wake County. A page of the publica
tion is devoted to a letter by the
man’s mother, in which she makes eX
planation of the saucily-healthy looK
the baby, who weighed seven-and-a-
pounds when he was born, on April -
1918, but who, when account was ■
taken of him on the scales, j,,
nineteen and three-quarter pounds,
exhibit is prepared by Mrs. Kate
Vaughn, in behalf of a mother
learned that it was better to
a well baby by a schedule according ^
rule, rather than take care of an a
baby all the time.” The Tyson '
was forced by circumsUnces to
maintenance as could be
the bottle. His mother, admitting
ignorance of raising babies, , .jce-
the SUte Board of Health
She also studied two little /
“Parental Care,” and “Infant
She learned from these books
was best to have regular hours
the baby, and to give the same qu
at each feeding; to take ver>
in preparing the milk and tl>«
and to keep the milk chilled a
bottles had been prepared ^
She admits that it was a
trouble to do all this, as she
household duties to perform m
_ . 1
household duties lo - . jU'
Nevertheless, she was determm^
cessful in esUblishing for her b»
the first day, regular hours for jjr
sleeping, bathing, and walkmP- »
Tyson says her baby has
mouthful of solid food from
He has had his milk and oranl^
“and since he was two jiiiti
has not been necessary to ^
night, from nine p. m. to s .(i ^
Mrs. Tyson writes that her
slept by himself, day and "
W-„ot .
room down from the top. ^
had a Uste of soothing ^
medicine, and he has ne'er ^ ^ ^
When he is constipated. ‘ “ „i)-
stick, and have had to do th*
times in his life. At the
Hoo-oo-ray! Hoo-oo-ray!
Oh, we don’t have to sell;
So, if, they won’t buy cotton crops.
Why, let them go a spell.
And we can can what we can’t eat.
Can eat what we can can.
“We can’s” the plan. We plan to can.
We can! We can! We can!
Hoo-oo-ray! Hoo-oo-ray!
Can eat what we can can.
“We can’s” the plan. We plan to can.
We can! Wc can! We can!
—M. L. P.
Miss Edith Harris is visiting her
grandmother, at New I^ondon.