Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-01
as TO THAT CANNING FACTORY.
Live Men to the Front-Thousands
Annually Wasted by the Farm
ing Community-Let Us
Have Canning
Factory.

| How to get the greatest returns from
your land, at the same time adding
yearly to its intrinsic value, is always
an important question.
| Carefully read, and act upon your
better judgment. thereby saving many
hours of toll and many sleepless nights
of care and worry.
Well, what do we need? Tell us
quickly, as we have long been search
| ing: but, alas, our searches have been
| in vain.
You need a good improved canning
factory. A few years ago u canning
factory was rare thing. almost I'M
known. The discovery of hermetical-
ly canned goods was first made in the
long ago in excavating the ruins of
| Pompeii. when a jar of figs was I'M
earthed, having been buried more than
1879 years, and they were found as
pure and palatable as when first put
up. Hence this was the index or the
dawning of one of the grandest and
most useful industries of the nineteenth
century. and is to-day furnishing food
for more than 60,0o0,O00 people in our
land and equally as many in foreign
countries and the distant isles of the
sea.
Won't this business be overdone?
No, not in the near future, and the fol-
lowing are reasons for thinking so:
Our home demand is increasing at the
rate of Il per cent. yearly. The for
eign demand of 1891 over 1890 was 80
per cent: 1892 over 1891, SO per cent,
and from present indications 1894 will
be 80 per cent. over the past few
years.
The improved machinery for putting
up these goods SO diminishes the cost.
and so greatly improves the quality,
that private families have long since
learned that to buy their goods from
first-class factories is cheaper and far
more pleasant than working over hot
stoves in the heated season.
There are only certain localities in
the United States where both soil and
climate are adapted to this industry;
the extreme north is too cold, and in
the extreme south the season is gener-
ally very hottie sandy soil of the
south not retaining the moisture neces-
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tables profitable.
Then everyone who embarks in this
enterprise does not make it a success;
namely for want of improved machine
ry, experience, good judgment and at
tention. We could 60 on and give many
more reasons. showing thereby that
the business of canning fruits and veg
etables will not for the next twenty
five years equal the demand. to say
nothing about an overproduction.
WILL 1T PAY?
IF you will show US by actual figures
that it is profitable. we want a factory,
and we want it quick! Very well: a
factory should take almost anything
you grow. Tomatoes, for instance,
which are more generally used than
any article that is canned. l will now
figure on one acre, and the same rule
will apply to so or 100 acres. One
acre of good ground. well tended, with
an ordinary season, will yield from
200 to 400 bushels; 400 bushels say. at
20 cts. bushel will bring you in $50.
Without going into details as to ex-
penses of blowing. narrowing and /
will claim $4,000 for expenses per
acre. which leaves You clear profit
of $4,000 per acre. or the nice round |
sum of $4,000 tor 100 acres-enough to |
buy you another farm yearly, Or to pay |
the mortgage that might be on the |
one you now have.
Corn will yield you from 2! to 4 |
tons per acre in the husk. Price per
ton is from $500 to $500. Peas will |
pay you from $1,000 to $4,000 per |
acre. String beans from $1,000 to |
10000 per acre. So II farmer did |
not wish to plant but a few acres it
would be valuable addition to the in
come from his farm.
IMPROVE THE LAND.
Then another thing-I make the |
bold assertion, fearless of successful |
contradiction, that you may take an
acre Of old WORKOUT land, plant and |
cultivate ana raise three consecutive |
crops of tomatoes, and you will have
brought the soil back almost to its viz |
gin purity and richness. and at the |
same time kept your land from wash |
ing. Tomatoes are planted and Guilt
waited similarly to corn; there is no
extra expense to commence it; your
same team and ordinary farming i'm |
plements are all you need. When |
ripe they are generally picked and
gathered by the children, then hau led
to the factory, weighed and paid for |
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
l could go on and enumerate every |
article that is canned, thereby show
ing you that this line Of farming will |
pay you far better than any otner way |
you can use your land. You will have |
much less work and can take many |
more hours of ease and enjoyment with |
your families, the latter being by too |
many sadly neglected and lost sight of. |
Why not come to the front and be |
community Of thrift and progress, |
and not continue In this same routine |
that was practiced 400 years ago by |
your forefather! Time waits for no
one: every man carves out his own
destiny, and his face is but the index
of his own heart The time has come
when it rests with yon and you alone
to better you. condition, and it Gan be
done only by your own personal and
individual efforts. Diversity your
crops aud build factories, thereby
bringing in more people who will
want homes. Make start and make
il new, before the dawn of another
year. -FOUR community will blossom
with thrift and prosperity as did the
Rose of Sharon with her sweet fra