Home Canning Drying Of Vegetables Fruits

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ISBN 13 : 9781332140244
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Home Canning Drying of Vegetables Fruits (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Home Canning Drying of Vegetables Fruits We stand with our backs to the wall. That call to the civilized world, made by General Haig in the spring of 1918, has brought and still must bring answer from the women. Only by their cooperation has it been possible for that call to be answered, for no nation can do a great work unless the women of that nation put their influence into the job. We were forced into a war which was something more than a war to decide policies or mark boundaries - a war involving the most sacred questions with which men and women have to deal - the sanctity of womanhood, the sacredness of childhood and the right to live in freedom. We could not yield these rights while we had the strength to defend them. In the emergency created by this war the question of food goes hand in hand with thrift. Our position has been no less closely involved in the conflict than that of Europe. In proof of this let me call attention to the plan the enemy had for us. I quote from a book called "War," by Klaus Wagner, published in 1916 in Berlin. On page 165 the author says: "Not only North America, but the whole of America must become a bulwark of German Kultur, perhaps the strongest fortress of the Germanic races. That is every one's hope who frees himself from his own local European pride and who places race feeling above his love for home." Mark that well - his race feeling above his love for home; and then let me quote one of the thousands of letters received by the National War Garden Commission. Here it is, from a boy: "I have decided to help win the war by having a war garden, and I have just read your notice that any one can have a free garden book. Please send it to me. My father joined the army in 1915 and was killed in 1916. - Harvey Cameron, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia." That boy is typical of the boys and men of many nations who have been fighting against the common enemy. If they could look the job in the face that way, what can we do? Our boys have been giving their lives toward the achievement of victory. Every mile of reclaimed territory in devastated France and Belgium adds hundreds of hungry mouths to be fed. With France and Belgium liberated many more people have become dependent on this country's food supply. In victory we must feed not only more millions abroad but also care for our own people at home and our soldiers until they return. Peace cannot mean an increase of the worlds grain supply for another year at least, and it will take several years of bountiful crops to refill the empty bins and granaries of the world. Victory, therefore, must necessarily bring a large increase in our obligation. We must not only produce food as close to the kitchen door as possible, but we must save a vast volume of this food for winter use. To save it we must can it, dry it, or otherwise prepare to have it in readiness for the months of non-production. Canning and drying, therefore, are as imperative to-day as if the war were just beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.