The Morning herald., 1875-10-04
THE DELAWARE PEALH PRESER-
.t1FYEK& ty8A

THE CANNING EsTABLIsRMENT AND TIE
DRYING HObsEsAwHATfRBY HAVE AC-
NEW RvAPORAToR.t '
During the past season the canning es-
Establishments and drying houses Of the Pc
ninsula have been 0usily engaged, although
the quantity OF fruit disposed of has not
been 60 large as was anticipated. Most of
them have now closed their operations for
the season, although some of them have
continued to, put ;pp q few late tomatoes.
The oldest and best known establishment
on the Peninsula, that OF Messrs. Richard
son & Robbins, Of Dover, closed their sea-
son on Thursday, with the exception of
few jars which they have orders for. This
has been with them much larger season
than usual, having continued over seven
weeks, while the usual season has not ex-
tended over six. During tn. season they
have consumed q, 500 baskets of peaches,
from which they have canned over IN, 900
cans of fruit They have orders for all they
can put up, and this fruit is nearly always
preferred to any in the market.
Marsh & Brown, the prOprietors of the
large drying house at Wyoming, have
handled on an average about 200 baskets
of peaches daily since they commenced this
season. They employ 400 hands, and their
fruit is pronounced, by those who are
judges, to be first-class article. They are
now packing it in neat boxes, which con-
tain 30 pounds each. The parings are used
at this establishment to make jelly, nothing
being wasted:
j. NJ. Chambers, of Dover, has a very
complete establishment near the depot, and
during the season has put up 10000 baskets
of fruit. ,5.
Stetson & Ellison, of Camden, have pack
ed about zoo, 900 cans this season. The Far
mers' Fruit Packing Co., of Plymouth, have
packed 5000 cans. Peck, Friedell & Co.,
FELTON,, 100, 900 cans, using 5000 baskets Of
peaches and 200 baskets of tomatoes. HOf-
fecker g. Bro., Of Smyrna, have packed
about 72 900 cans. The Little Creek Land
ing Canning Co., 100000 cans they also
have dried a large quantity of fruit. The
Lebanon Canning Co., John s. Collins &
Co., have packed about $50, 900 cans.
The Farmers Fruit Preserving Co., of
Five Points, have packed about 100000
besides drying an unusually large quantity.
The DelaWarea,a, of Saturday has the fol-
loWAAS uCcSlIhtIoA VI d ACW vi ing dPpdld
tus in use at j. s. Collins establishment
1t is known as the Michigan Pneumatic
Evaporator, is compact, convenient, and
certainly very cleanly arrangement, for
drying fruit, and it does its work fast and
well. These evaporators are made of sew
eral sizes, but this one is called section
machine, and it is said it can he made to
dry 800 baskets of peaches in twenty-four
hours. 1t consists of wooden case, about
ten feet long, seven in height and six broad,
divided into six compartments, any one of
which can be operated independently of the
others, The furnace, and fan, driven by
steam power, are placed in the cellar under
the eyaporator. The object of the fan is to
keep up a constant circulation of hot air
among the fruit, and to use the same air
over and over again until saturated with
moisture, when it is blown off; and fresh,
dry air admitted. By this arrangement the
drying goes on rapidly, and there is great
saving of heat, the supply of which is regu-
lated by valves under the control of the op-
orator. The temperature is indicated by
thermometers. The fruit is halved and
placed on trays with wire screen bottoms,
as in other evaporators, except that the
seed side is turned down. The fruit dried
by this process is very fine, and will bring
the very highest price. The peach parings,
which used to be fed to hogs, given to diy-
tillers for hauling away, or cast on the COM
post heap, are now used in the preparation
of very nice jelly, stroke of economy for
which this firm have patent.