St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-06
Canning Factory.

A gentleman of experience in
the canning business writes to the
Aberdeen, t(Aliss.) Examiner, as
follows:
Capital is needed, but do say
that it requires less in proportion to
the amount OF business to be done,
than any other business that l
know of, and that anyone with or
binary intelligence, and good sound
business capacity, can go into it
with a very great chance OF success.
Most OF the help consists Of women,
BOYS and girls. The buildings
may be Of the most primitive kind.
a mere frame shelter, for men aud
machinery.
An OUTFIT that will can 1000 3-lb.
cans per day, will cost, complete,
500. An outfit than will can 3,OUU
Bib. cane per day, $3.50; a 1000
3-lb capacity outfit, 5000, and a
| 10000 3.lb capacity, $500. These
outfits are adapted to canning both
2-lb and BIB cans.
Two-pound cansscost 81 50 per
\ hundred. Three pound cans cost
81 % per hundred.
The kettles of this machinery can
be set in brick work, or attached
to a steam boiler. Where steam is
already used for other purposes it
can be easily attached to your can
ming machinery, but it answers the
same purpose TO simply setln brick,
as described above. The farmer is
slow to plant vegetables, even when
the Gamer tells him he can realize
more for the produces Of hls vege-
tables in one season than the land
they were grown on would sell for.
| Once get the farmer to know the
good of it and the balance is easy.
II is new business for the farmers
of the South. They are cautious
and are disposed to look with sus-
picion upon this vegetable business.
They are welded to cotton.
There is another feature to this
canning business that deserves
Especial mention. and that is the EN-
ployment it furnishes at good
wages to every class Of people {;
male and female find it pleasant and
profitable work. This industry ,s
peculiarly adapted to the smaller
towns and cities. Yes, canning
will pay in your county. You hav-
ing these things which with good
management and perseverance,
! will make canning factories pay In
Iyour county, as they are paying IN
a grand way in 80 many OF your
sister states.
| l will now figure on the cost Ut
canning, taking tomatoes for ex-
ample:
1 hand as professor, cost per day 81. 90
IL hands to peel, at 81 cents. $50
2 hands to pack goods In cans 100
hand to wipe cans so
hand to cap cans 200
hand TO label cans so
hand to scald tomatoes 80
Total cost OF labor on 1900 BIB
cans nl $11.OO
Cost Of 1900 BIB. empty cans $500
| Z" 1900 BIB labels 200
!" Ill bushels of tomatoes
to fill these cans at Csc bushcl 81 IS
| Total cost $75.75
! We now market these 1900 Glib
cans Of tomatoes at 75c. per dozen
and receive 1925, leaving a margin
cf $685.; a pretty good showing
for one days work.
| Each year has marked come i'm
Iprovement in the method OF pre-
pairing the different varieties Of
food for canning. until now with the
varions appliances and improved
machinery a. command the careful
packer is enabled to preserve each
article in Theoretically sealed cans,
to be opened months, yea even
years af,erward, as good, rich and
nice as when first packed; thus has
the canning industry become one Of
the greatest Of the country, employ
ing thousands OF hands and giving
to the world food 10 convenient
packages, which may be transport
ed to the remote corners of the
globe.
am convinced that your people
are overlooking this important
branch OF industry and depend too
much on q foreign market for goods
which are going to waste at your
own door.
The manufacturers OF canning
| machinery furnish full printed in
struc,ions for putting up and oper-
ating your own plant. Investigate
| this matter; il you are not disposed
to operate it In large way, com
meuce moderately 1000 to 5000
plant will pay you handsomely to
commence with
Bait for Wild Turkeys.