Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
EVAPORATED FRUITS.
A Process Which Supe;rsedes
Drying and Keeps the Flavor. !
An Industry Reyolutionized by
Scientific Methods.

SCiSntlIlC MotnOdS
Evaporatod fruit today is entirely dit
ierent from tho dried fruit of a dozen
years ago. Who doesn't remember the
"hrivelled, dark-colored, wedge shaped
pieces of apple and peach that wore
sold by tho family grocori They pos.
'e'sod tho tenacity of solo leather and
were uninvitiug to look aud smell. Be.
ioro they could DO used In tho home
madc pies they required to DO boiled
md stewcd for hours at n time. Tho
preparation OF tho dried fruits of those
days was primitive. Farmers wives
and daughter, pared and sliced tho
apple BY hand and placed Thorn on
wooden trays, which wcro set out In
tho Gun. 1t took days to dry tho fruit,
and exposure to showers and tho
night air had to DO avoided or tho lot
would DO spoiled. Tho advent of steam
cvaporators and scientific methods has
wrought great change in the business.
Large cvaporating establishments havo
boon put up, thousands of mon givon
employ mont, and prosperous industry
croatod. Tho superiority of tho evapo.
rated fruits to the sun-driod article has
caused an immense demand for them.
and aside from tho consump tion In thi,
country, largo amounts arc shipped
abroad. Tho new processes now in uso
produce fruit that retains much of it.
original color, and that Is as palatablo
MS though it were in its fresh and nalu.
rNl condition.
A largo proportion OF tho evaporated
fruit that Is consumed in tho city AMI
exported is produced in tho western
part Of this State. Within q radius
Of forty miles OF Rochester there are
1900 cvaporators from tho ANAL farm
house apparatus, with capacity of
twenty-five bushels por day, to tho
largo steam cvaporators drying from
eight hundred TO ono thousand bushels
OF apples cvcry twenty four hours.
These eveporators employ over thirty
thousand hands during tho fall and
Oarly winter months. Largo quantities
Of apples OF quality that was formerly
wasted arc utilized, and tho profits Of
fruit raising largely increased. Tho
great caro- md scrupulous cleanliness
observed, and the excellent quality of
tho fruit u'cl, have made the New
York cvaporatcd apples famous,
and onablod them to command good
prices. The product in tho State is
now estimated Mt 80, 900, 900 pounds,
worth at first cost about So, 900. 900.
In order to produce this quantity Of
dried fruit no less than 8 900, 900 bush
OILS OF apples arc required, aud Is, 900
tons of Goa. consumed. A constant
attendance, night aud day. Of an army
of men, women and children number.
ing 80, 600 is necessary. The process
Of evaporation eliminate, 225, 600 toas
of water, reducing tho green fruit to
about one-eighth of its original weight
each 100 pounds yielding, whom prop.
crly evaporatod, 10 pounds of fruit.
The fruit is packed in boxes holding
so pounds cach, and is ehipped to all
parts of tho world ASIDE from tho
fact that tho cvaporatod apple can DO
transported to any climo without deter.
ioration, the advantage in tho cost OF
freight is great A case oil tho conccn-
tratcd product costs 30 cents for trans.
portation to Livcrpool; in tho green
state tho 8 i.e bushels required to pro-
duco tho so pounds would cost So. %.
and in tho canned state tho
cost would DO Sc 10. Tho
principal consuming counties abroad
aro Germany, England, Franco. Boil
GUM, Holland and Scotland. There is
also growing demand for tho apples
in tho Australian and West African
trado. During 1887 there were shipped
to Franco $4,000 barrels of chopped ap-
pies. These wero dried without being
pared or corod, and wcro used for tho
production of cidor and cheap wines.
The total exports of evaporated apples,
now amount to 4 900, 900 pounds per
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