Rules for Selecting Canned Fruit.
REJECT every can that does not have the name of the manufacturer or firm upon it as well as the name of the company and the town where manufactured. "Standards" have all this. When the wholesale dealer is ashamed to have his name on the goods, fight shy of him. Reject every article of canned food that does not show the line of resin around the edge of the solder of the cap, the same as is seen on the seam at the side of the can. Every cap should be examined, and if two holes are filled in it, send the can at once to the Board of Health, with the contents and the name of the grocer who sold it. Press up the bottom of the can; if decomposition is commencing, the tin will rattle the same as the bottom of the oiler of your sewing-machine does. If the goods are sound, it will be solid, and there will be no rattle to the tin. Reject every can that shows any rust around the cap on the inside of the head of the can. If housewives are educated to these points, then muriate of zinc amalgam will become a thing of the past, and dealers in "swells" will have to seek some other occupation.—Sel.