The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-04

TIK BUNKER ON THE CANNING FAC
f TORY.

s4aey all promised whenever they are
&<giy to begin. They used to have the came
I'd of thing over on the Island more'n
<sty years ago, only they used glass cans
lead of tin, and the work was done at
ne instead of in factory. Don't be-
- they'll du it any better now-ye see
ley au-Mrs. Sparrowgrasses preserves
never be beat in our day"
EIt will be just like the sorghum mill
rted here in war times-see if 'taint,"
"a Jake Fripk. "They made a great
#ell, and you'd "a thought that Hooker
>wn street was gwyne to run with merlas-
>. The thing went up in tn year, and now
3 can't git any kind o. decent sweetening
Hort of fifty cents gallon; don't take
~ more stock in that sort of thing"
k'Nobody expected you would" said Seth
the bowl of his meerschaum, "yonr cap
&l is already invested down to the gin pal
SHThe age of mirikles amt pact yit, is itf"
.ia Tucker, in meditative mood.
81 wonder if there'll be any rum made of
- leavingsf" inquired Jones, expectantly,
Rallipg his experience on sugar plants-
sNot bit of it," said Seth, with merry
&{nkle in his eye, aud an extra puff at his
sEe, that by this time was in full blast.
hckers will go dry around the canning
tory when they git her started. Ye see
~ work up the skins and leaviDgs of the
narters into catchup according tew the
5pter, gather up the fragments that
hing be lost as Mister Spooner would
This conversation of my neighbors, last
Itter, was the first / heard of the new
azerprise. On further inquiry learned
s1t Hookertown young man, named
I'D, had been in New Jersey several
Ars, working at the business in factory
IRE, and was coming home to set up for
%hself. 1 liked this for two reasons. 1t
Bs new industry, and would help the
Rn, and then it always looks we'll to see
Hookertown boy, when he gets started
life, coming back among his old neigh
rs and friends, to help himself, and help
lem get ahead in the world.
Rudd had got some money, aud, what is
bitter, had learned the business, and got a
pod name for capacity and integrity in
ArryiDg it on. So he passed muster at the
Ank. and the neighbors who had money,
be Deacon Smith and myself, took stock,
d those who had brains, and not much
pney, like Mr.. Spooner and the school
Aster, talked in its favor at the Farmers
10, and men, like Jones and Tucker, who
- neither brains nor money, threw up
liz old hats and hurrar'd for the factory
p was to be. A few old stsgers, like
lie lothian Sparrowgrass and Jake
K, hung on the outskirts of the move
and tried to make backwster. But it
It amount to any more than a row boat
Q wake of a Connecticut River steamer,
ing down when the steam is all on, and
tide is in her favor. 7 he thing ripped
r It along just as ii nothing was the matter.
he first thing Rudd did after the capi
was taken, was to get the farmers
Ind Hookertown to agree to raise toma
He said they were just as easy to
as corn or potatoes, the crop was just
2ertain, it did not exhaust the soil near
huch, and would pay better for the la
Then he distributed the seed, and
~ them how to start the plant in hot
Is, and when to put them out. There
great stir in Hookertown, and toma-
was the town talk-all through the
ng. The general inquiry on Hooker.
green, between the meetings on Sun
was not, How is your folks3" but
oW's the plants getting along 7" and
" many are you gwyne to put outY"
Spooner, 1 suppose, did not know any
g about the worldlinees of the people,
hought they were discussing the SER
or other things of the kingdom.
nwhile the factory was put up on the
town road, just on the edge of the
ege, where there is plenty of elbow
D. 1t is a plain cheap building, with
le space upon the ground floor, and a
story above for storing cans after they
made. Fifty thousand cans require
deal of room, and these can be made
stored when fruits and vegetables are
pf season. Every body went to see the
factory, with its broad ten feet plat
ss all around it, to hold the fruit; the
nsand or more bushel boxes piled up to
caves; the steam engine; the tanks
scalding, and the bigger tanks for
ling; the patent sort of sausage stufer
backing the tomatoes in the cans; the
Bring machine where boy seals two
minute all day long; the grinder
re they work up the refuse, and make
ant tomato catsup. It was about as
as going to the menagerie to 60 to the
Dry, and see Mr.. Rudd show up the va
contrivances of the canning business
ar women folks. They all wanted to
and said they guessed Mr.. Rudd un-
sood the business.
ke Frink said I" he didn't know but the
r's head was level, arter all, but he
pit gwyne to plant any termaters this
any how"
ell, the factory has been running
agh the season, and the talk on the
now, between meetings, is, How
yer termaters turn eo1t I" The yield
anywhere from two to four hundred
els, according to the manure and cul-
hon given to the crop. At four hun
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