The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-03-29
HERE is AN OPPORTUNITY
LARGE PROFITS MADE IN CANNED
GOODS.
Somerset One of the Best Sites In
the State for a Canning
Factory.

Why do not some Of our local capitalists,
who are constantly seeking investments for
their surplus cash. erect a canning factory.
No business will bring better returns for the
money. Few counties in PsnnsylEania are
better adapted to growing certain varieties
of fruit snd vegetables, and no county in the
State produces more or chOicer varieties Of
small aud wild fruits than ours. II is not
necessary to remind the people Of this vi
einity that every season garden truck and
home grown fruit becomes drug on the To-
cal market, and that hundreds Of bushels of
both are permitted TO decay Somerset county
is too remote for our farmers to compete
with their brethren who live close by the
city markets, and it is time that they realize
this fact and put their goods into such shape
that they viii compete with goods Of SINH
lar character pat up elsewhere.
In conneesson with this sabject the follow
ing letter read before the Farmers' Institute
Of Indiana county, Pa, will give an insight
into what Is required and the profits that
are to be made;
CAMDEN. ". VA, Feb. Is. 1898.
Dear Sir;
In reply to your letter concerning our
system of establishing canning factories,
submit the following details which | hope
will meet your approval In the first place
your surrounding country must be an agri-
cultural one If 30, am prepared to ssiis-
fy your people there is nice money in the
manufacture Of canned products, such as
peas, beans, corn, tomatoes. apples and ell
fruits, our specialiies being corn, tomatoes
and apples
:. You will doubtless want 10 know what
price is paid the producer for his garden
truck and fruit
PRICE PAID FOR FARM PRODUCTS.
An average price for peas in bulls is 30
eeAts per bushel, a fair yield being 100 BUSH
els TO The acre. Beans in the pod are worth
a cent a pound and an average yield per
acre is 80 bushels Green corn in the husk
brings from s. TO 50 ton according to the
season, and an acre of carefully cultivated
land should produce four tons Tomatoes
on ordinary land should produce $50 bush
els TO the acre, the average price for the last
three years being p cents per busbel-
"Of course the yield Of apples cannot be
safely estimated bat factory is safe in con
tracing for them Al 50 cents bushel, there
being no choice as to grade, the only require
ment beng that they are sound when shak-
en- from the tree. Pumpkins and squashes
are worth to the Gamer from 50 to 81 ton.
All labor in the factory Is done 6y piece
work. Any community adapted to this bus
iness should furnish enough produce to
manufacture 600 cans daily This would
employ from % 10 $ hands.
II BESEFTIs ALL.
The business leaves a nice margin TO the
manufactures besides paying good prices to
the producers. Both are greatly benefited.
II your people KneW Of the money in The
undertaking, and if the country is adapted
to garden truck, there would not be any hes
itancy about establishing plant In many
instances the entire cost IS covered in two
years. Can your people, the farmers espec-
tally, engage in anything that viii pay them
betterg''