Canned foodsModern processes of canning in the United States, general system of grading, and description of products available for export .. . ed five or more times. It is growing inpopularity with wonderful rapidity, as attested by the fact that in 1905the total pack was about 5,500,000 tins, and in 1915 about 19,000,000 tins.It is exported to all countries having tariff regulations that are notprohibitive. 42 CANNED FOODS. Asparagus is packed according to the size and color of the stalks. Thewhite is preferred by the majority of persons, and consists of the stalkswhich are cut before they ha

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Canned foodsModern processes of canning in the United States, general system of grading, and description of products available for export .. . ed five or more times. It is growing inpopularity with wonderful rapidity, as attested by the fact that in 1905the total pack was about 5, 500, 000 tins, and in 1915 about 19, 000, 000 tins.It is exported to all countries having tariff regulations that are notprohibitive. 42 CANNED FOODS. Asparagus is packed according to the size and color of the stalks. Thewhite is preferred by the majority of persons, and consists of the stalkswhich are cut before they have come through the ground and have beenexposed to the light. The cutters locate the stalks by the cracks whichare formed as the top is about ready to break through. The green aspara-gus differs from the white in that it has been exposed to Ught for a dayor less and during that time acquires a different flavor. The grading forsize is based upon the number of stalks required to fill a No. 2K squarecan, which averages 20 for mammoth, 30 for large, 40 for medium, and 50for small. In asparagus tips about 30 per cent more stalks are required. Artichokes. The fleshy part of the bracts and other base of the flowering head are used. for the same grades. It is packed in No. lyi, tall and No. 2 square cans, andinNo. i, No. 2, and No. 2 K round cans. The square can is preferred. Refugee Beans (Phaseolus nanus). Certain varieties of beans have been developed for their pods ratherthan for the seed and are eaten or canned while in a green state. The p)odsare fleshy, crisp, and tender, and when broken show either no string oronly a very rudimentary one. The beans are picked by hand at frequent inten.als in order to securethe maximum number of small size. They are sorted bv machine accord-ing to their diameter, and the larger ones cut to definite lengths. Thebeans must pass between rollers set at fixed distances, so as to make aseparation for size, the first grade being eight sixty-fourths of a