but man has never been relieved of the responsibility of earning them he has had to gain wisdom and understanding to adapt this incredible goodness to his needs it is one of the prime movers of the age in which we live the wind was a wild untamed think comrade of space and the stars until man learned how to make it work for  water anywhere is potential power but uncontrolled it is also unpredictable so man build dams and behold this pent up power becomes a tremendous agency for good good land once until man let the topsoil wash away the topsoil is the very source of life and man is learning to conserve it so that nature may give more abundantly of all the growing why does the bible warns there's a time for sowing and a time for eating but the time for reaping is so very short that perhaps is why man has always made so much of harvest made it a time of festival of prayer for he knows his life depends on swiftly gathering in the bounty in nature gives him which remind us how the harvest tided our forefathers through lean and hungry winters by the same token spring has ever been a time of rejoicing of joy in the promise of still another harvest and field and dream again bring forth a perfusion of delicious gifts that beckon us to come and gather in what nature has a way of holding out her body then snatching it away all too quickly it is gone through it serves reintroduce the soil but as for a man's immediate needs a total loss of course all growing things are contained within a protective covering but it occurred to man that if he could provide a permanent protective covering for the body of nature he could then readily extend the harvest seasons until every day in the year became a day of plenty a simple idea but one of great promise today its perfection is a man made miracle we refer to it and rightly so as miracle of the can but we've been talking about as if women didn't exist which is most unfair let's go back to a hot summer's day around the year one thousand nine hundred when in households across the land this was happening you know lucy if we can get all these tomatoes put up today we can start on the corner of our school that will be cool to have and the floods in the last thing we need right now is more to my we got twice what we can put out now i mean  idea you've got there that it was a need caught on farmers began to plant more and more acres improved their you lifted their farm incomes to a higher level adding purchasing power that gladdened the hearts of entire family and a new agricultural hero was in the making all through the growing demand for canned food but in those days progress limited by the old fashioned hall and kept many things for instance had to be cut up and forced through the hole in the top of the cans filling cans was there for a slow process after filling a cap had to be soldered over the whole by hand and that required a lot of work to say nothing of an equally important element time it was all just couldn't turn out canned foods fast enough to keep up with the growing demand can make years in the growing areas but when i was time rolls around the crops come in it's the same story everywhere they're all this one just orders that they just can't fail yes it was  apparent that the task of serving the whole nation was too big for the can production capacity available in those days the need was clear for a pooling of resources in the interest of better experimentation research engineering skills and greater can production so many can makers did combine their facilities and cool their knowledge farm the american can company thousand nine hundred in one was laid the foundation for advancements in can making destine to serve mankind in war as well as peace but i'd much rather early progress in can making it continued to be a slow process part of the problem was the can itself it didn't lend itself to mass production then came a development that was to have far reaching whole of the top no canners get on with this and entirely open so they can pack hotel maid is or peaches or other fruits and vegetables in this can don't have to cut things up consumers i love that composition gasket to keep in time it is slow but with your head off i think we can figure out a way to speed it up you know it seems to me that can or should be able to fill in close these faster than the old hol and fast that's just what's needed for others let's get to work and get to work they did making improvements both in the can and the machinery for its mass production and efficient use in canneri they were destined to revolutionize not only an industry but the distribution techniques the shopping habits the various standard of diet of hundreds of millions of people for combined knowledge and increased experience of these pioneer can makers began to catch hold the tempo in each plant quickened the volume road ten thousand cans a day twenty five thousand fifty thousand yes man finally had created the real answer for preserving the fruits of the land and sea indefinitely us farmers were encouraged to plant more land and sell their increased crops to the canners and the swing to more profitable farming lifted property values everywhere the same expansion was going on in the fishing industry and the meat packing industry better breeds bigger herds due to the greater capacity of packers to can meet products all is because they can making industry had faced unmet natures challenge is my limitless bounty for the taking protected well so today a man controls the use of nature's gift far beyond the time of harvest that last man has the means for using the natural resources of this great land to the utmost intended by its creator thanks to the formation  growth of a great enterprise moreover far more people earning farm are al a part in this industry today than could possibly have found employment under the antique methods of the past today the can making industry turns out billions metal cans a year why one modern can line alone produces over two hundred thousand cans in a single day remember frank and his six hundred cans a day well it would take frank with these old fashioned machines and more than sixty five thousand can make or working with at least twenty five years to produce the billions of cans turned out by the industry every year but as in conflicts other industries here in our country each man on a can making line today produce because of the modern equipment he has to work with naturally and this greater production means higher wages higher standards of living and even lower food costs for us all now let's see how this manufacturing miracle is brought to pass it begins here with steel steel made to exacting specifications determined by the can makers metallurgists man who has in making cans it is necessary to ensure the absolute protection of their contents when the cans are later filled and sealed so all the coating being added here is an additional protective and now  used for certain product this making of an it is dried and hard when the plate with a coating bake to a golden color emerge from the oven they are ready to be made into cans for foods like cars lima beans and countless other products next the plate is cut into the right shapes and sizes to form can bodies on this machine called a sli these are body bl meanwhile other plate cut to proper size is fed into machines which stamp out the end