THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY

POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that ANDREW G. PLATT, Vice
President of The J. M. Smucker Company (the Company), hereby
appoints Timothy P. Smucker, Richard K. Smucker, and M. Ann
Harlan, and each of them, with full power of substitution, as
attorneys or attorney of the undersigned, to sign and to file
Forms 3, 4, and 5 with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
all pursuant to applicable legal provisions, with full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned officer might or could do in person,
in furtherance of the foregoing.  The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity
at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the
Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4,
and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.


/s/Andrew G. Platt
ANDREW G. PLATT

Executed February 4, 2004