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title: 'Home Canning: Don''t (six canning mistakes)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-donts-1943/
description: 'Six cartoon panels, each headed ''Don''t'', show canning mistakes: bandaged spoiled vegetables, a cook overwhelmed by a heap of food, a jar packed too tight.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Home Canning: Don't, 1943 US poster: Six cartoon panels, each headed 'Don't', show canning mistakes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-donts-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-donts-1943.jpg)

# Home Canning: Don't (six canning mistakes)

Six cartoon panels, each headed 'Don't', show canning mistakes: bandaged spoiled vegetables, a cook overwhelmed by a heap of food, a jar packed too tight, a woman on the phone beside a steaming pot, jars standing on their heads and a cracked jar in a draft. Faces on the jars and produce show pain. The technique is mild fear-appeal by cartoon.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Don't can wilted, over-ripe or partly spoiled food... it won't keep.
Don't prepare more than your canner will hold. Food spoils if it stands around.
Don't pack too tight... especially corn and greens. Tightly packed jars heat through too slowly.
Don't lose track of time... follow timetables to the minute for successful canning.
Don't stand hot jars on their heads... you may break the seal.
Don't place hot jars on a cold surface or in a draft.
HOME CANNING
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
19
[imprint:] [illegible]
```

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