. Agriculture and the farming business . nd economical to can the surplusvegetables, fruit, sweet corn, greens and other prod-ucts that commonly go to waste in the orchard, field andgarden. Home Canned Products and the Table When the average home has learned to can its surplusfresh food products, then the family may have a balancedration every day in the year, the cost of living will begreatly reduced, and it will turn the garden and orchard by-products into net profits. Home canned foods.—The average family shouldplan to have for table use from the home-canned supplyone quart of vegetables, o
. Agriculture and the farming business . nd economical to can the surplusvegetables, fruit, sweet corn, greens and other prod-ucts that commonly go to waste in the orchard, field andgarden. Home Canned Products and the Table When the average home has learned to can its surplusfresh food products, then the family may have a balancedration every day in the year, the cost of living will begreatly reduced, and it will turn the garden and orchard by-products into net profits. Home canned foods.—The average family shouldplan to have for table use from the home-canned supplyone quart of vegetables, one quart of fruit and one quartof greens for every day in the year when these foodsare not available fresh in the garden. The ration based onthese foods and supplemented by meats is better balancedand less expensive than one based on meats with a scarcityof fruits and vegetables. Such a system will have a ten-dency to cut down both the doctors bills and the grocerybills, and will furnish a more palatable diet. THE FARMING BUSINESS 329. 330 AGRICULTURE AND The surplus food products.—The importance of homecanning is still more fully realized when we stop to con-sider that in most states probably from one-fifth to one-halfof all the fruits and vegetables raised are allowed to go towaste. They are not needed for immediate consumption,and methods of grading, crating and marketing are notunderstood. Home canning may save all of this surplus.
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