Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-02-12
.A PROFITABLE
HOME INDUSTRY.
STIMULATES FARMING AND
FURNISHES A HOME
MARKET.
A CANNING FACTORY.
Especially Advantageous to
Small Towns.
A CANNING FACTORY,

TWm. H. Mann in The Tradesna, j
The south's great benefit is to
be derived form manufacturing.
Your supremacy as an agrlcul-
tural region is recognized, but
the line of the greatest operation
will be in the establishment OF
factories and mills to convert
your produce into finished artl-
cles for the market.
l know nothing that would
paw more than canning tac~
tories. 1t requires comparative
ly small capital, stimulates the
farming class to grow greater
variety of products by attord1ng
them a cash market at their own
doors, gives employment to a
great number Of persons, male
aud female, who would Others
wise have none, and sends out a
valuable food product, which
will return money to circulate IN
domestic channels. Another
advantage is that the industry
can be built by home capital. "A
canning factory IS in every re-
spect a home industry.
The south raises nearly every
variety of fruit and vegetables
and the industry would thrive
there. Especially would it be o.
advantage to small towns. The
best paying products to can are
tomatoes, peaches, peas, beans
corn, sweet potatoes, berries
| oysters, fish and shrimp. The
market demand for these as vel
as all canned goods increases as
each year, as the people lean the
value of this food product. 1he
southern states should not DC
forced to purchase canned goods
from the north and west, When
the natural resources of your oWl1
country offer such inducements
to the establishment OF the 1n'
dustry-
Some two years ago l had oc'
casion to sample can OF very
fine Maine corn, Ill one OF the
leading cities of the south Ire
marked to the dealer that l couio
duplicate it in the south. He
ridiculed the idea, and said thai
at couldn't be done outside o1
the New England states, ltoio
hsn1 all right, I would prove my
assertion true later On. Some
three or four months afterwards
I presented the gentleman with
can of corn packed south, by my
self. and asked him to sample an'
express his opinion OF same. IL
did so, aud at once said. TAX
that corn, go into the market an'
tell dealers to get downssthe1r bes
brant Is and you will cut out witt
them. You have got the corr
70 do ;*with. If that is the kim
of cor,r you are packing in tn
south YOU won't have to hunt TO
BUYERS long; they will be hunt
ing for you
So. small IS the stock Of came
goods OIL hand that the holder
can we'll afford, if necessary, [
we it until spring to dispose OF Il
The demand for consunpt1o
| increases disproportionately t
1.-The supply, and if Gamers woul
lrefect, there is rarely any caus
tfor anxiety. This country !
large, facilities for distribute
! are increasing and the trade &c
canned goods is growing. l
); every household it is a porto
:, of the daily rations. 1t is chea,
ready for use, and in all respec
desirable. Without it there a
lportions of our country tn
| would be forced to subs1st {
r salt meat and bread. 10 Il
| camp, the mine and the marin
5 it is now indispensable.
Fl The worst feature of the bu
, mess is the ignorance of t
tbuyers as to the amount of ,ou
tput. They swallow any and
trenorts and. few are governed