Girl's canning club

Girl's Canning Club

[image of canner with "T.C.S. 16 Standard Cannery Home Cannery Co. Hicory N.C." written on it]

Sallie Jones

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Girl's Canning Club [sentence underlined]

The object of the Girl's Canning Club is to stimulate interest and welcome among the members of the family; to provide some means by which the girls may earn money at home and at the same time get the education and view point [viewpoint] necessary for the ideal farm-life; to encourage rural families to provide purer and better food at a lower cost and not to waste the products from the garden and orchard; and to furnish earnest teachers a plan for aiding their pupils and helping their community.

I enrolled as a club member for two reaons; first in order that I might earn some money at home during the summer, and second for the pleasure I might derive from the club work. examined

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The Tomato was first grown in South America; but now is widely cultivated in Temperate as well as in tropical climates. It was introduced into Europe early in the sixteenth century but not until later was it used as a food. nor was it known to be of value as a food in the United States until about 1830.

On the southeast side of a building I placed a bottomless box two feet wide and four feet long. I filled this box six inches deep with good stable manure tramping [?] this down, on top of which I placed about three inches of good garden soil. Then I sowed the tomato seed spreading about 1/4 inch of good garden soil over them. This furnished enough plants to set my 1/10 acre.

When the plants were about 6 or 8 inches tall I transplanted them from the cole [cold] frame

[3] to a good garden plat thoroughly fertilized. Here they were set in squares about 3 1/2 ft. apart. Whilte the plants were small I cultivated them constantly to keep out the weeds and grass and to give the roots plenty of sunshine and air.

In order to make the fruit larger and of better quality I cut off all the small limbs. When they were about two feet high each plant was tied to a stake for support. No plants were destroyed by works but some of the fruit was lost from the "point rot".

When the tomatoes begain to ripen I gathered them and placed them in a cool dairy until thorougly ripe. Then they were ready for marketing or canning.

We had two days in each week for canning tomatoes. While the water

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was heating we washed and packed them in trays for scolding. Having dropped the tomatoes in boiling water we let them remain for one minute after which we put them in cold water. To make them firm. When we had carefully packed them in the cans they were ready to be sealed. When sealed we put them in the canner boiled twenty two minutes. After they had been taken out of the canner they were turned upside down for twenty four hours to prevent them from bulging.

The labels should be put on witht he seal part down. Our labels have our motto to make the best better and our club emplem, whcih is our trade mark a bbook forms the background for a tomato, and a four-leaf clover. Upon the top of the book is the word