The Calico Rock Progress

For The Vegetarian

It's a long time since vegetarians
have had to vegetate in
the country to get their vegetables.
Nearly all kinds of these
succulent foods are now available
ready prepared in cans. But it was
not until some fourteen hundred
years after Nebuchadnezzar was
turned out to grass "like the kine"
that the Frenchman Nicholas Appert
discovered the process which
has enabled vegetarians to become
city dwellers.

At the present time there are
thirty or forty different kinds of
vegetables canned, several combinations
and varieties of many of them,
and more kinds are being added to
the canned menu every year. Some
of the principal vegetables which are universally and always available in canned form in this country
are artichokes, asparagus, beans,
beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage,
carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn,
hominy, kale, lentils, mushrooms,
okra, olives, onions, peas, peppers,
pickles, pimientos, potatoes, pumpkin,
sauerkraut, spinach, squash,
tomatoes, turnips and wholewheat.

A Healthy Diet

Not only can the city dweller
get all of the canned vegetables he
wants, but he has the assurance of
scientists that they are equal in
nutritive qualities and superior in
vitamin content to fresh vegetables
cooked in open receptacles by the
usual home methods. This is because
canned vegetables are processed
in hermetically sealed containers,
and the oxygen which attacks their
vitamin content is excluded.