Show PEACH MUM the newly invented process of pool peeling peaches for drying as viewed by the fresno republican promises to give the american grocery trade virtually a new product to sell in the form of a peeled dried peach a product which will sell for materially higher prices than the unpeeled peaches ol of the past and will probably have a much larger demand and popularity there has been quietly and secret ly installed at the california peach growers plant no 9 says the republican a peeled peach machine which promises to revolutionize the peach industry and make it profitable to market peeled peaches at the low price of se sc or ac per pound in the past years there has been very little demand tor for peeled peaches because of the difficult task of removing the skin without injuring the peach and the high price of to loc per pound has prevented the housewife from making much use of the peach in this form but with the advent of the peeled peach machine which can put out a perfect peeled peach at less cost than can be done by hand it is predicted that there will be a big demand for the peeled peaches and this will form one of the important outlets for the peach industry the secrets of the ma chine are being most carefully guarded and the machine will bs be within a house on the inside of the packing plant H S beekhuis Beek huls a well known fruit man of the san joaquin valley who until recently made his home in hanford is the inventor patent has been applied torin forin tor for in washington the skin is ii removed from the peach with a chemical solution and the mechanical device further than this no information will be given out as to the method by which the peaches will be peeled it Is announced that the machine can turn out about one carload of peaches each day and that as the demaid grows laore machines will be installed dried peaches which have heretofore sold at prices lower than those received for any other variety of dried fruits will be put on an entirely new plane the principal competitor of the dried peach in the past has been the dried apple its consumption has been confined very largely to southern states mountain districts and sections where the demand has been tor for a low priced fruit product ey by removing the so called woolen wailen blanket from the peach the peach company in a measure is lifting the dried peach out of competition with the dried apple and elevating it t to competition with the dried apricot w which heretofore has sold at the highest price received for any dried fruits heretofore the european markets have taken 60 per cent of the crop of apricots and only 15 per cent ot 01 the peach crop the objection to the peach has been due entirely to the disagreeable character of the skin the removal of this will give the peach an entree to european markets and thereby vastly increase its consumption they abert this stimulus will mean much to the permanency of the peach industry and the effect will be felt by all peach growers the new process evolved by the california peach growers will turn out beell peeled ed peaches as rapidly as they are required the peeling takes place after the fruit has been dried the peaches can be peeled and packed with the same facility that they can bo be processed and packed and very little Is added to the cost of production the new method of peeling leaves tho the peach with a bright golden color as good if not better than it had prior to tho the peeling process the food val va ue is in no way lessened the corn com pany is therefore putting on the mar ket an altogether new product a fruit which has all the tha delicacy of the peach haver flavor without the rough ekin which has heretofore characterized dried peaches thousands of families have declined to use dried peaches because of this disa disagreeable greable feature these will now find in the new fealt possibilities for a most delectable dish abdat and at a price within the reah i of all |