. Health in home and town. nut crops are California, Pennsyl-vania, Texas, New York, and Louisiana. Peanuts areprobably the best known and most universally are not true nuts, but pods, and grow undergroundon bushes about one foot high. The annual crop isworth ten and one half millions of dollars, and one halfof it is produced in Virginia and North Carolina. Prepared Food. — A large amount of food in themarket is prepared so that it will keep a long of it is put up in glass bottles, tin cans, woodenboxes, or paper packages. The chief object is to keepthe food from decaying.
. Health in home and town. nut crops are California, Pennsyl-vania, Texas, New York, and Louisiana. Peanuts areprobably the best known and most universally are not true nuts, but pods, and grow undergroundon bushes about one foot high. The annual crop isworth ten and one half millions of dollars, and one halfof it is produced in Virginia and North Carolina. Prepared Food. — A large amount of food in themarket is prepared so that it will keep a long of it is put up in glass bottles, tin cans, woodenboxes, or paper packages. The chief object is to keepthe food from decaying. The covering also keeps thefood clean, and makes handling and selling much easier. THE CITY FOOD SUPPLY 161 The foods most usually prepared in this way are meatproducts, vegetables, fruits, and fish. Foods are pre-pared in many ways. Drying, salting, pickling,smoking, and sterilizing will preserve food. We littlerealize what quantities of prepared food are sold, andthat the amount is still increasing. Something like #one. A California Orange Grove hundred million cans of corn, about the same number ofcans of peas, and one hundred and fifty million cans oftomatoes alone are packed yearly in the United Food. — There are many kinds of food thatmust be kept fresh and delivered in perfect amounts of meat and fish are handled winter vegetables may be stored in various waysuntil needed, and are then delivered fresh. Apples,oranges, lemons, dates, prunes, and bananas are kept 162 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN fresh, and delivered nearly every month of the year toevery city in the land. Transportation. — Many of our foods have traveledhalfway or entirely across the continent. The refriger-ator car has made this possible. Provision must be madefor hot as well as cold weather. In going from the Southto the North, arrangements must be made for venti-lating and then closing the cars. Sometimes cars arewarmed by steam, by stoves, by a lining of heavy
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