Show CANNING FACTORIES A GLIMPSE AT THE GREAT FARMS THAT RAISE vegetables A diassi kinsetta kin county which Sui Sul fort ports Crowl growing ng and Irod lable 1 industry liera nitch of our car led and vegetates vege tames conic from norfolk county iff this state Is the center of the canning industry in the cist east and p probably rob A bly more farmers produce is here directly for fer the factories than in any ally other county in the united states I 1 it t has a fertile soil a it genial clini climate ate and a progressive gres sive cla class clam m of far farmers and it if they have not solved io leil the problem of big prents in farming they have at least discovered the way w ly to make ie their farms rive give them a good 1 vin the tito question of finding a at market for nil all of their surphes goods is answered for I 1 hem heni by the factories where nearly neara everything crown grown on oil the tile farro farm can le I 1 e bold a 0 id the tile farms as its a rule collit of five t ten e n a and nd fitly fifty nimg although there are tire some larger oies otes situated further farther back but small farms prevail in num numbers bersand and profitable lico corn ws as bean apples asparagus and ir products arc are raised on these farms for the canning fac factories torlea every season semon sea son the farmers make a new agreement either to sell all of their produce to the factories at so much per ton or bushel or take their chances ot of marketing what they can call in the cities and selling the surplus nt at the fac factories tor for whatever they can get in some few instances the factory people own the land and lease leage it to farmer who sell all their produce to them another method in vogue is to hire farm ers rs to run rtin the farms at so much a year and the tile factory people make what they can from the brain bargain about the of september the canning concerns begin operations operation many of these are owned by bythe the lobster canning factory people on the tile coast and it is after the latter have closed that the vegetable can berles begin the season extends then well up into the fall months ending only when frost hns has killed late Tege vegetables tables A great many wany people arc are then required to rush things through both on ae the farm and in the factories vegetable gathering be blits while the schools are closed for the sti summer miner vacation and many children and women help in the work in the cranberry district of cape cod the vacation Is changed 0 o that children can the bogs to make a little money and it is very probable that the summer vacation hero bero would tx be changed if the vegetables did not ripen at the proper time ono one factory handles on the average to bushels of tomatoes a day and when w hen the corn season presses heavily the concern 1 Is capable of turning out 2400 belsh els although the average I 1 it about tile same ns As n s that odthe of the tomatoes 0 one ne acri of good corn yields generally from front 1200 1 aw to I 1 00 calls of corn v aich nets the farmer between thirty and forty dollars per acre A few exceptionally rich soils produce more than tills this and one lias has yielded as high as 2200 cans about pounds of corn cut from front the tile cob and ready for boiling fill sixty cans the tile corn Is brought in the husk to tile factory by the cartload As soon as ft it is 13 it is cut off by patent knives and passed to the who gives the exact wright vi ight to the tile farmer and to the head bead of the factory the corn has to be attended to as soon aa it arrives for it if allowed to tand any length of time it would heat beat and nd spoil generally the factory dislikes to handle corn that lias fins been hauled more than four miles or any that has I 1 not ot been fre fresh ai picked the purchaser for the factory always examines it carefully before it is given to the hu buskers when the corn is weighed it is passed through tigh a series of spindles which quickly take out all till silk and cobs that may remain after this nearly everything is done by machinery it 11 Is passed into a hopper and from this it la Is poured into cans that rotate around in frames another machine wipes the cans can dry and shoves them alon along I 1 to hive li tre a patent cap put on and soldered sol dered down by men A packer puts the cans in a rack which carries three dozen at a time to the tile hot water bath in this tills the corn is thoroughly heated and then a hole Is made in each can to allow the steam and hot air air to escape it is it critical moment then and the mentho men who handle the cans next must understand their business i just caius t it ILS noon as the steam is out a drop of solder J Is put over the tile hole and anti the cans are then ready remly for the final cooking A huge tank is arranged for this cooking and it is done entirely by steam each factory lias has its time limit for cooking the tile corn arid it is a trade becuet that few care t tp divulge the w liola success of the process depends depend upon the amount of cooking and the pressure of the steam at this tills point when they are ire properly cooked the cans ans are turned over to the labelers label cra and packers pack who prepare them for market other vegetables receive similar treatment the tomatoes are first scalded and then carried to long benches where women rapidly take the peela peels oft off after which they pas pass s through the same process as the corn squashes are peeled entirely by machine macht n e and t the lie seeds taken out and the meat cut n t into alicea by machine before being 1 boiled X tied and crowded into ino cans calls paring mach ines are spinning around nil till the time taking the tile peel off apples pearn pears and in ili fact after they are prepared for the tile cans all fruit and vegetables are treated about the saint same with the exception of a change in the th time ne of cooking and anti the tile amount of or sugar added to them the output of one of these factories aver ages about 17 a pound cansor cans of corn the kime amount of ilot mid sq cans of apples mid and the same of quinces cans calls of pears and cana cams of beans this means altogether between and cans of fruits and vegetables eg et most alost of thease calls are the 3 pound ones ties but a few are gallon cans cant an ail idea of the canning industry in tho the united states may bo be gathered from these figures when it is stated that there are moie more I 1 than hall 2000 canning concerns in the country the output of many of them Is i much less but a yowl majority average tile highest lilg liest ig urea ures tito profits of tho the busi busina tims for the tile factories appear to be satisfactory for there is generally ft a sale for all their canned roods goods one season or at another iother and the farmers in this section at least ara are contented with their share in the enterprise MIS mas cur new york post |