Show From Tomato Vine to Can Catsup Comes From Perfect Product Offal Product Offal Goes to Creek I Bottoms at Woods Wood's Cross I Yes les but you should see the lie Woods Cm CI Cios o oss s Canning and Pickling factory at the time town from which It takes Its IrM name namo There Thele are ale about fifty lirt- men an and women employed und and there I is a dally daily handling of or carloa carloads s of tomatoes ju just t tOW now Other times In the season there Is asparagus Anti And at still sUII others there are aro peaches leaches and amid cherries nut and apricots They tal take e the product straight from from the time gut garden or orchard cook nn and can cnn it H. H and amid supply su the tho market Also the they mal make e a a. whole lot of cat cat- sup SUJ But thc they lucy make e the cat catsup only when wilen thc they are arc cunning cannIng tomatoes If IC there Is IS amu n l 1 wt If rt f fir ron ni ti rf n i il I n n n. n 0 the last run of the thc tomatoes Is done one it IL Is wasted It never ne Is d and treated with chemicals to preserve CIO It for future making into catsup nor I Is it sold to anyone else Manager Richard had hall no warning when the reporter descended upon his peaceful establish establishment Thun Thursday a forenoon He Hc and his em em- were busy bus with the time rush of to tomato tomato to- to mato canning an and the he boiling of material ma ma- for fot catsup And nd about l out the first thing tIling that one I Is th time the clean clean- line line- of the lie place The girls and women women wo 0 wo- wo men employed there are arc from from the tIme well well- to-do to families in the time nel neighborhood an and amid thc they don't dont have havo to be dirty They Tiler calT carry their home habits into their theil work worl at the factory They were all beautIfully spattered a with the tue red juice of the lie tomatoes while thc they were at work and antI their oilcloth aprons were ere smeared with the juices of th their ir work worl But at noon they put hut Jut off of their aprons and trooped out to eat nt their lieu lunches as tl tidy and amid rosy losy OS a lot o of women an ana and anda a looking decent ln lot of boys hors men menas menas menas as one will see in iii a months month journey lOCC s of Preparation Then Mr showed showell his lila visitors every C step 11 of the process Here Herc is a big biff looking boiler 1 standing at al an un angle of 4 45 degrees and tilled filled with a conveyor COll that tha Is submerged submerged submersed sub sub- merged mersed In clear fresh water from an artesian well The tomatoes are tal taken takemi en I from the cars In Iii they have ridden rid iid den demi en down from Sand Rl Ridge Sc an and 1 are arc carefully into the low lower r end of this Inclined cylinder er nn and 1 the con con- rolls them about the wat water I liftIng lift lift- In hug Ing them a little with each revolution an and the thc first the tomatoes know they are at time the top tOil of or the c Under cylinder an and In Inside Insl In- In sl side e the lie building ThC They drop lOP into lute coal scuttles that have 11 0 never known coal an and amid 1 arc o carried by men to the lie lon long bug tables that thal run twenty of them hem across across the cutting room Girls stand at these tables with sharp l knives nI They cut cutaway cutaway cutaway away the time useless portions of the lie tomatoes tomatoes toma tonia- toes an and amid remove c the skins which have been ma made e willing lo to drop b by their tumbling about in the hot ilOt water of the cylinder r. r There are aro black places In Inman Inmany man ninny many tomatoes There Is wu waste tc substance at al the lie point where the tho stem grew Now all and amid then thieVe there Is i a. a rotten place These are allcut nil all cut aWa away au and the tho cuttings with tho the sl skins arc washed down loWn the tables Into Inton a n trou trough h In imi the floor where a constant constant constant con con- stant stream from rout the tho well carries carries car car- ries the substance out to the back of tho time bUll building It Is washed Into n a creek creol rin and tho ho stream wafts It il away vii over nuin ninny many acres ip Jan lp l nn 1 there arc moro ro t tomato mato vines rites s growing ro along the tho bunks banks s of r that stream than anybody has lias In his b pardon arent aren't an any worms attached 1 to thc these e tomatoes A worm is a R. sensible I animal un and he allows himself to be washed awa away In the hot water of the I cylinder before he gets to the he l knives of or tIme the girls The Thu tomatoes In Iii fuel are arc about as clean as they thc can get when they come conic to the time cutting tables table When hen a gh glib Ill 1 gets the skin C removed from a tomato and amid all al althe time the bad lad portions per por lions bus cut awa away she drops the remainIng remainIng remaining remain- remain Ing fruit Into tutu a a. a patent pall and ami a n boy comes along and along an and takes It Il to the canning canning can cnn nin ning If there be overripe o tomatoes tomatoes' not soli solid enough for canning and an yet et not hot rolt rotten n. n the girl puts lUtS them lucia Into tutu another pall vall and antl another bo boy carried them to the thc catsup vats The These c are big bl- caul cauldrons rons In Iii which a hundred gallons of are stewed stewed stewed stew stew- ed In their own Juice until tho the Juice Is Ja catsup Then It Is 19 canned an and Is ready for tho thio market Whatever cr of this product 11 is left when bien the run mu of oC tomato canning is done one Is dumped Into Inlo the lie ditch In the floor and anti It wanders out the back wa way to lo fertilize fertilize- the lowIn low low- In lands mid a. a But the lie good tomatoes arc aro poured Into the thc hopper of a bl big machine still warm from lom the hot water of or the lie clIn tier del In the wall vali and unil are arc forced by ma- ma emery Into tin cans some cans ome quarts and some half hair gallons and the time machinery tal takes es tho those e cans camis as It t It were a sentient sentient sentient sen sen- tient being and anti jogs them along to the tho thesa thos s sa sealer n lel A girl Irl waylays s 's them on the tho journey an and If any can ha has not nOl been i quite filled Oiled b by tho the machine she ladles enough tomato tomato to tomato to- to mato out of a bucket lucket an and completes I the scriptural measure of brimming and running over Then the filled can ean I runs rumus under a funny little come comedian lan of or ofa ora a brush that puts on a little acid antI and then lien to an automatic device that drops I a n rounded dic c of or tin lii on the mouth of 1 the can anti and then forward ward to a musI muscular muscular mus mus- I cular machine where the tue disc Is soldered sol aol dered Into place but with an au all hole au-hole hole left In the center That Is to lo let an army any excess s of hot air all escape An And Amid about the next move mo the he hot hol air Is gone an and amid a lithe liUo dab of an automatic machine as the can hurries past completes the lie sealing Then a n man sets the cans ns Into an nn iron crate crale and they lucy are arc lifted Into a abig abig big retort where time the can with Its contents contents contents con con- tents is boiled in Iii water running over overa a hundred ed degrees rees until they are ame cooked Then they thuey are uro lifted d out out amid and carried to the tIme end n of elevated ele ele- railway where other men sort them pick luck out those that have ha been jammed or that are arc Imperfectly sealed scaled and range them In great stacks slacks s In Iii the lie cooling room After that the they go 0 to the labeling machine where liere the paper pf labels aro are pasted on h by machinery and where no human hand need touch a paper cover cover- log Ins Then they are ready 1 for th the marI mar mar- I ket ct Clean The Tue place is as clean as a a. agoo goo good housewife's I kitchen When the thc factory stopped slopped Lou for noon luncheon some ome boys ran lan around with leads 1 of or hose an and amid washed the place from cylinder der to lo machine An And Amid el sealing ever everything every cry thing thinE loose went down the trough In lii Inthe Inthe the an and amid out to the the- fertilized meadows The Woods Cross factory Is clean |