The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-10
NOTES OF INTEREST.

'The preparation of dried vegetables
for the market said a large wholesale
dealer in such goods in New York to
the writer recently, has lately be-
come quite an extensive industry in
various agricultural parts of this
country. Five years ago there were
not a dozen factories in New York
state where any vegetable, other than
a potato, was dried for the table.
To-day there are at least twenty fac
tories in this state, and as many more
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where
fresh vegetables such as potatoes,
carrots and onions, are dried especial
ly for winter use.
The fresh vegetables are brought
by truck loads to the drying factory
during the summer and fall seasons.
They are ~unpacked, and the good hay
ing been sorted out from the bad, the
vegetables are taken to the washing
room, where they are cleaned of all
particles of dust and dirt that may
adhere to them. They are then SEN
to the peeling room Here a number
of men, women and children are bust
ly employed with k~ccn-edged knives
peeling the vegetables into large bas-
kets. AS soon as a basket has beer
filled the peeled vegetable, be it pota-
to, carrot or onion, is dumped into a
hopper made to hold one of those three
special vegetables. From there they
are fed to a machine with rotating
knife blades which cuts them up into
small slices about IL quarter of an inch
thick.
After being sliced the tubers are
slightly sulphured in a chamber built
of wood. Here great discrimination
must be used, for if they are sulphur.
ed too much the potatoes will taste OF
the fumes; if too little, they will not
contain enough antiseptic property and
bacteria attracted by the starch will
develop. The sulphuring process is
necessary to preserve the color of the
vegetables as far as possible. and t.
prevent decay.
After this process the potatoes are
not spread out in the sun. but put in.
to an eYaporator. The later looks like
a small Ferris Wheel and is inclosed in
a sort of brick oven with glass win
dows. Within this it revolvcs close t.
hot-alr pipes for a few hours. Whrl,
the moisture is sufficiently evaporatcd
the cars of the wheel are emptic,
through the windows, and their con
tents are ready to be packed in boxes
for the market. When the Sliced DO.
tatoes are taken from the evaporato.
they resemble dry chips. and i takes
six or seven pounds of the fresh vege
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article. Other vegetables than tn. 5
mentioned are at present in process j.
development. Thus far the industr,
has proved very profitable, as evinceL
by the increased demand for dricC
vegetables all over the country durina
last winter"
The particular incident connected
with the first year of The Overland
that has been oftenest and most wide
~ told is the first reception of 9TH
Luck of Roaring Camp and the trou
bic 1T made. My own recollection O
the incident differs a little in particl
lars from Mr.. Harte's. AS | remen
Der it, Mr.. Harte and | had both goi
with our wives to Santa Cruz f
'NAN"y We oltth lOOh SlCl 'I'''S
those days. On this Sunday Ilaand
my mail, when the stage from Sn
Jose came in, duplicate proofs of 9Th
Luck of Roaring Camp" Harte ha,
told me the story before. One proc
gave to him and took the other l.,
my own room, where l asked nv wifi,
to read 1t aloud to me. AS far as sh
could go she did, but the story so af
fected her that she could not finish !
aloud, and went on reading it to her
self. Then | took it and finished il,
too. Neither of us had a word of oil
lection to make, we We're simply de
lighted with it.
On the following day we all wen
back to San Francisco. On reachin,
the city Harte went to the printer
and / to the store.
My HE clerk, Joseph Hoffman,
greeted me with the statement tina
there was a great h%ullabaloo at the
printers over the immortality of til,
Luck. They were saying that II
would kill the magazine.
To this l replied that if it killed the
magazine it could do nothing more.
Then Mr.. Harte came in from thu
printers with the sharp demand t,
know what l meant to do about it.
Nothing" l said, but go ahead
Anton Roman in The Overland.
departmental headaches are a dis
tinct malady," remarked a w%ell-knowr
physician, land it is somewhat of :,
surprise how many sufferers there arc
among department clerks from this
trouble. The thing seems to grow
among them, n they nave their
headaches as regularly as they have
their work. A simple remedy which
is worth trying is to put a rubber band
around the head just above the ears.
The band should not be tight enough
to stop the circulation of the blood.
The band known as the string band Is
generally sufficiently heavy for the
purpose. 1t should be applied just as
soon as it is noticed that the headach
Is setting in, and taken off the momeu
the pain ceases. In many cases tho
rubber band works nicely enough
though it affords no relief when III ,
headache is the result Of stomach
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