PLAN No. 436. JAMS AND JELLIES
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A farmer’s wife, who lived more than ten miles from the city, and realizing that it was not possible for her to market her strawberries, and other garden products by driving that distance, only to find the market over supplied for that day, resolved upon another plan for handling these berries profitably. She knew that by putting them up in the form of delicious jellies and jams, home-made she could get good prices for them long after the fresh berry season was over, so she obtained a large number of jars, glasses, etc., and made vast quantities of all kinds of jams and jellies.
Her judgment was confirmed the following winter, for when the city people learned of these home-made delicacies, through a little want ad. in the city papers, she sold the entire lot in less than two days, at prices she considered very high. The next year she doubled the quantity of jams and jellies put up, which doubled her profits as well.