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title: 'Home Canning: Vegetables, Selection and Preparation'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-selection-preparation-usda-1943/
description: Instruction chart numbered 13 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Selection and Preparation'.
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# Home Canning: Vegetables, Selection and Preparation

Instruction chart numbered 13 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Selection and Preparation': a woman sorting a basket of green beans, a drawing of bean vines beside a jar with the line 'Two hours from garden to can is ideal', and hands washing beans in a sink. The technique is faint: an ordinary home cook and garden produce frame the task as common (plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Pack Freshness
"Two hours from garden to
can"  is ideal.
Select young, tender,
perfect beans.
Wash thoroughly.
HOME
CANNING
Vegetables
SELECTION
and
PREPARATION
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 50c per set of 20 charts
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O-539498
13
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

[← Home Canning: Vegetables, Into the Pressure Canner](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-pressure-canner-usda-1943/) [Hon. Spy Say: Thanks for the Can You Throw Away! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hon-spy-say-thanks-for-the-can-1943/)

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