Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Art of Canning and Preserving as an Industry
From as far back as history may reach, finding ways and means by which to keep and prevent eatables from decaying, in other words, to preserve, them, has been one of man's greatest and constant thoughts. The various methods discovered by the most progressive brains at the different periods have been used by the men of the respective ages, enabling them to save the products of nature from one season to another in order to keep them from starving du1 ing the long hibernal months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.