C Hews Cetter
KODIAK,
AI.ASKA
OOToBKU 1017.
Vol.
XVII. No. 7
FOOD CO.NSh'KVATION
\ cry few p pi** in the Slut* 8 have
any conception of the extent to whi« li
people in Alaska 11v«• from tin chin
S *me years ago our board s*-nt up a
highly revom m ended worker, among;
her olh**r i| i alitioations it v> as stall il
Ulat she had had on»* or two courses
in marketing Hit* mental picture
of this lady coining from Kodiak with
her market hisket filled with tin*
choice cuts of meat, tin* carefully
Selected vegetables and fresh fruits
all done up lu tin cans was very a
miisiugtous In t he stores h. re, a new
comer will n >*ice the absence of fresh
in its, vegetal* es and fruits while the
•helves are well stocked with tin cans
e in anting near.y every conceivable
thing in the food line.
11111 v wild when we bought by the
case our r.Mtnf, i rn* (1 or chipped beef,
sausage, Irish slew, fish, mutton, corn,
beans, tomatoes, cabbage, sweet pota
toes, beets, sauerkraut, and some
fruits Wo hope (hit (lay has passed
not to return at least to any great ex
tent.Of course there are things that
we cm not grow lo re at all, such us
corn, tomatoes, be.ms, onions, an 1
fruits, except some wild berries, but
i: • v that we have our cunning outfit
\ve h *pe to be abb* to do us we have
done this year, can our supply of fisb,
beef and perishable vegetables.
We experimented this year m
canning halibut It was an un
qualified success fn a recent issue
we told you of the supply of salmon
we had put by fur winter, some can
ned, which, by I lie way, is as good as
any wee.in buy, and we know it is
clean A small stock of smoked and
dried silmon and four or five largo
barrels < f salt salmon.
lu the winter we also have fresh
cod inice a week when the weather
permits fishing.
This fall w* have killed two beef
rattle, one, dressed, weighed a little
over a 1000 lbs. and the other about
(>00 lbs 8oiue of the meat we used
fresh, some we corned and the rest we
canned with the exception of a few
pieces which we smoked and dried.
W ith Ibis supply we do not antici
pate the the necessity of buying
any from the store.
As it is much cheaper to keep chick
en* in a can than in a coop, we killed
all but those we wished to keep for
breeding, having previously preser
ved a supply of eggs in water glass
From our garden we dried great
quantities of beet and turnip tops
for greens, also cabbage that failed
to head, some Swiss chaid and cauli
flower. Some cauliflower we also
canned. Of the turnips we made a bar
rel of sauerkraut, and a half barrel
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