r how most everything in the grocery line was handled
in bulk, dried fruits, cereals of all kinds, coffee, tea, etc., was
displayed on the counters, along the aisles and even outside along the
sidewalk, handled and examined by any one and exposed to dust and flies.
Just about the same way are vegetables in bulk handled today. Where is
the grocer who would go back to those days, and where is the public that
would patronize him?

Mrs. Glenzke: What vegetables do you can?

Mr. Hegerle: We can corn; beans, string and wax; apples, tomatoes, etc.

Mrs. Glenzke: How do you manage to get the farmers to bring them in? In
Wisconsin it was a failure. As you say, they came when they got their
work done, and the whole bunch came there at one time.

Mr. Hegerle: That is the hardest work, to get the growers to bring the
vegetables when they are in the right condition and when they should be
canned.

Mrs. Glenzke: There are five canning factories in that neighborhood now,
and there isn't a one of them that allows the farmers to bring their
stuff. They rent the farmers' land for themselves. For miles and miles
you can't find a farmer that hasn't rented his farm.

Mr. Hegerle: You have to have the vegetables at the right time.

Mrs. Glenzke: They use the farmer's team and give him all the assistance
they can. It does away with having them all at one time. I have seen
twenty-five farmers come at one time. I don't see how you manage it.

Mr. Hegerle: We have had a lot of trouble, and we are growing some of
our vegetables.

Mrs. Glenzke: You can raise four successive crops of peas on the same
ground, and you can make that work all right. They used to can squash,
corn, tomatoes, and they have got down to peas entirely.

A Member: Doesn't most of that trouble arise from the low prices?

Mr. Hegerle: No, not entirely. The price when contracted is
satisfactory, and we find in our experience in growing our own
vegetables we can grow them cheaper than what we pay to the growers. But
we wouldn't grow any if we could get the growers to bring them in when
they are in the right shape. When corn is at a certain stage to make a
good canned article it has got to be brought in that day, and if the
farmer don't bring it, if he has a state fair on or a wedding or a
funeral or something and delays it a day or two, then it is all off;
that corn is lost.

Mr. Sauter: I would like to know which is the best beans for canning,
the yellow or the gre