Fort Worth Gazette

The force of habit or custom is hard to overcome. It is generally the custom, says Homestead, to can berries and small fruit extensively, and when a drouthy year strikes berry crops, as in the case this season, and causes a shortage of berries, cans remain empty amid general lamentation. Usually the summer apple crop is good and summer and fall apples are quite cheap. In many orchards all are summer and fall fruit, and in this season when berries are short fill the cans with apples. Generally they are best if canned when already prepared for serving on the table. As sauce they may not be so well relished in the winter, when apples of high quality are still in the cellar to eat out of hand, but in spring and in early summer they are a delicious sauce. Comparatively speaking summer apples will be cheap this season, and the terrible drouth, causing not only short farm crops, but bringing disaster to all gardens and vegetables, furnishes an especial reason for filling all the empty fruit cans with apples, which are now at hand and going to waste in many orchards. Few families that can apples regularly hold canned apples past each season. Canned apples can be pleasantly flavored to any fancy with flavoring extracts and their value increased.