The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-04-14
A CANNING FACTORY,
With Every Possible Advantage and
Facility--Why Cannot HillsbOrO q
Have OneS

Have any of our enterprising business
men thought of the great benefit that
could be derived from canning factory
located in Hillsboro? Our town certain.
ly would afford as great advantages to
an industry OF this kind as could be
found anywhere. Fruits and vegetables,
such as are wanted for canning purposes,
grow here in great variety and .abun.
dance, and owing to the peculiar adapta.
ton Of our soil and climate, are almost
never.failing crop. Enough vegetables
90 to waste in our gardens every year to
supply large factory to itsfullest capac.
ity. Thousands and thousands Of BUSH
els Of fruit of every variety rot upon the
ground during every season because the
market price at that time does not repay
the expense Of handling. By taking
care of these products Of our gardens
and orchards through the instrumental.
ity of canning factory they could be
carried overto the time of year when
wan,ed by theconsumer and good prices
realized by the seller.
| A factory of this kind could be built
and quite a large business done on q
comparatively small capital. As the
building would only be used during the
summer, season, why could it not be
cheaply constructed and located near
some of our present factories and; steam
power rented? A plant could thus be
established with small outlay and in.
expensively operated and at the same
time give employment to a great many
persons. The canning apparatus for q
large factory would probably not cost to
exceed $500 and the entire product could
most likely be sold rightat home to our
own wholesale groceries, which do a
very large business in canned goods and
would BIZ mutually advantageous in the
great saving OF frieghts to each in the
placing of the goods in the hands of the
consumer.
We are informed that at Russellville,
small village in Brown county, COM
pany was organized with limited capi.
tai and a factory started last year with a
daily capacity OF $500 cans aud the pc.
cuniary results were very satisfactory.
Their canning outfit cost them about
$500. For tomatoes they paid IS cents
per 100 pounds. This would be 81 cents
per bushel and We learn that the yield
in that locality was not less than 200 and
as high as 535 bushels Of tomatoes to the
acre and with no greater cost in cultiva.
ton to the producer than would have
la,Sen the sans number 81 acres in corn,
fTad the prices paid realized the producer
from $42 to SIP per acre for his labor.
The Russellville company expects to
plant forty acres in tomatoes this year
and double the capacity Of their factory,
as they sold every can of their last years
product and had the money deposited
to their credit in hank by the first day
of November.
The great advantages in this business
are that small capital only is required
and the output is quickly converted into
cash. When we consider the matter we
find that our town and county are greatly
in want of an enterprise of this kind.
Let the canning factory be built and the
voice of the struck farmer" will be heard
upon our hills and in our valleys and
truck farming has been the recognized
need OF this locality for many years.