Excerpt from Drying Vegetables and Fruits for Home Use Home Drying, with the exception of some drying of fruit, had almost become a lost art in American homes previous to the war. The war's demands for increased saving of food and difficulty in obtaining sufficient containers in which to can the large surplus production brought home drying into prominence again. On account of the demands from the county home demonstration agents, the Office of Extension Work South, in April, 1917, furnished instructions in improved methods in home drying of fruits and vegetables, with the result that in 1917 there were dried and stored for home use in the 15 Southern States 5,511,881 pounds of fruit and vegetables. The improved methods brought home drying into such favor in the South that in 1918 the amount of dried fruit and vegetables stored for home use in the Southern States amounted to almost 6,500,000 pounds. The methods which have been successfully used in this work by home-demonstration agents in the South are described in this circular. 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 techlogy 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.