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Show FOOD CANNING NEW BUSINESS Actual Start of Industry Less Than Hundred Years A?o in America A history' of the canned food Industry Indus-try dates back 100 years, according to a review at the recent convention In Louisville of the National Canners' association. as-sociation. The process began to be worked out simultaneously in New York and Boston. Bos-ton. Thomas Lc-mseit and Ezra Daggett Dag-gett of New York, succeeded In 1S25 In In canning or packing in a crude way -salmon, lobsters and oysters In Bob-, ton William Underwood and Charles -Mitchell, nslg heat, succeeded In pack-lng pack-lng damsons, cuin es. cranio rries and currants. Up until this time the can-' ning of food, one of tho most import- 1 ant industries of present civilization, was unknown. Credit for the discovery of the method of keeping porlshable- goods by heat and sealing In airtight containers, con-tainers, however, belongs to a French-1 man. Nicholas Appert. Appeit taking, advantage of an offer by Napoleon o 12.000 francs for the discovery of a method of preserving food for his army, begun experiments that, after 15 years, resulted in the discovery that food could be preserved by using heal and putting the product in sealed containers. con-tainers. The theory of the process, however, was unknown to Appert and it was not until the time Louis Pasteur, the i famous bacteriologist, discovered bae- teria that the scientific basis of canning can-ning was understood Profe-soi ft. Li Kus.sell of tho University Uni-versity if Wisconsin, using Pasteur's discovery, found in 1895 that the spoil-ago spoil-ago certain pea cannrs were experiencing exper-iencing was duo to bacteria. Higher temperature of stc-n ligation was found to be necessary. Professor Russell's work was continued by Professor Prescott and Professor I.'ndervvood of i the Massachusetts institute of Tech- , no logy. Canning of oysters was begun in 1 Baltimore In 1840 and the following i yea t the sardine Industry had Its birth j In Maine. The Pacific coast however. , did not enter the cannlns field until L 1856. i However, it was not until the Civil I, war that a canning factory was ostab-, llshcd. h Canned goods, which formed the!, principal rations of tht- armies In tho I. world war, obviated the necessity of soldier at the frent going without ' ! food for several days at a IJmt, such i xb had been the case in eurlle-r wars, I It was pointed out at the conventlon.il The war depart nn-nt, during the( y ear and a half the United Suites was j it war, purchased for the American j mil allied expeditionary force 30.- I DOO. 000 cases of canned veaetables and 1 2 ooo.ooo coses of canned fruits ir I Tin annual output of cannri , I '!,n'- to th ,,.;, f0f. I 000.000 in veVo ' tt" M In order to create ' " ' ot MarcTVoTr' as National r " LLH ooda week: "onai Lmne, ifci |