Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-04-19
SMALL CANNERlES.

Northern States. The people OF
North Carolina probably pay
several million dollars every
year for the canned products OF
those states, though we can grow
and prepare the material cheap
er and as we'll as they can.
Any village in the State can
build and operate one with adj
vantage to itself and to the farms
vim its icinity.
The Florida Citizen, which has
been studying the subject, gives
some information for the benefit
Of people i'll Florida which is just
as valuable for the Instruction of
people i'll this state: "The aPpar'
atus required for canning" it
says, ais not intricate or costly.
A complete outfit with a daily
capacity of 900 2-pound or p
$50 2-pound cans, can be pros
cured for 500; 5000 3-pound or
1900 to 5000 cans, $500; 700
to IS 900 cans, $500. A structure
6ox3o feet would be sufficiently
large to accommodate the most
expensive outfit in the list"
These are surprising low fig
ures, and we are not prepared to
say that they are correct. 1t is
enough for practical purpose,
however, if they are anywhere
near the mark. The following
list of products and prices given
by the same authority is interest
ing:
The following list of products
contains data that may be sug
gestive:
Lima beans yield 90 bushels
per acre, and bring from IS cents
to 81 per bushel. A bushel will
make fifty 2-pound cans.
String beans yield $50 bushels
per acre, and bring 20 to 20 cts.
A bushel will make thirty 2
pound cans.
Blackberries yield enormously,
grow wild almost all over the
State, and bring from so to IS
cents per bushel. A bushel will
make thirty 2-pound cans.
Sweet corn yields 2 y tons per
acre, making from ffty-fve to
sixty~hve cases of one dozen cans
each per acre, and worth from
81 to So per ton.
Okra yields abundantly, and
brings 40 cents per bushel. A
bushel will make thirty-flve two
pound cans.
Peas yield from 20 to 90 bush>
els per acre, and bring from 80
cents to 81 per bushel, A bush
el will make sixteen 2-pound cans
Pears yield heavily, land bring
from 50 to IS cents per bushel
except the early shipments. A
bushel will make forty>hve 3
pound cans.
Sweet potatoes yield from 100
to 400 bushels to the acre, and
are easily produced and canned
They are beginning to sell we'll
in Northern markets. They are
packed i'll 3-pound cans.
Tomatoes yield 800 bushels to
the acre, and sell from IS to IS
cents per bushel. A bushel will
make twenty-four 2-pound or
eighteen 5-pound cans.
Peaches can be packed to adj
vantage. A bushel will make
twenty-five 2-pound or eighteen
3-pound cans
Strawberries are packed III 2>
pound cans, and a bushel will
make forty-flve cans.
Farmers in North Carolina can
tell whether these prices would
pay we'll enough to warrant cul-
tivating such crops instead of
cotton or together with cotton.
they would, there is no reason
why the people of any town or
village Or railroad station and
their farmer neighbors should
not combine to build small fac
tory and plant crops for it and
operate it this summer. There
is demand in the State for all
the canned goods that can be
made in the State, and it is a
poor community, indeed, that
cannot build and run a factory
that costs only a few hundred