The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-24

the banks of the Black river canal, about half a mile north of it's junction with the Erie canal. In connection with the factory there is large farm' where are grown some of the proaucls put up in cans, while the Iarfners
 roundabout furnish the rest on con- tracts for acreage. In the course or the busy season many men, women ana young people find employment and many family's little store of money IS materially increased. .s.-. The industry of putting up canned goods is rapidly growing, and the pro- cesses by which the different crops are made ready for the market form an ln- teresting sight. It is hardly possible to conceive the rapidity with which the work is carried on and the important part played by machinery. Take, for instance. the canning of peas, where the vines are cut in the field by moving machine and loaded on the wagons the same as is done with hay. Arriving at the sheds of the factory, as wanted, they are placed on an endless chain and carried overhead to the Workmen who tend the machine known as the 'viner.' In looks it resembles a large old-fashioned revolving squirrel cage, in which are paddles which beat the pods and allow the peas to fall out through the meshes of the cage, while the vines and pods are carried by the. endless chain to the silo some distance away. As some pieces of vines and pods pass through with the peas they are run through a squirrel cage, which, revolving, causes the peas to be separ- ated from the other substances when they pass out of it into trays.
 Passing onward, the peas are next poured into machine reminding one. of the old-time flaming mills seen in farmers barns Here they, are further cleaned before passing through into the.
 grader" which is another cylinder in which there are several sections With different sized meshes, and the peas roll along until they come to the mesh which permits them to fall through. All the while they are in this cage drop. ping water is washing them and carry- ing out the dirt that may be on them. Each size is now labelled and kept sep. arate.
 The "blancher,n as it is called, is q trough of boiling water, through which the trays of peas are carried on the: endless chain, requiring about ten min utes to pass twenty-five feet. As some of the skins of the peas, and possibly other dirt, may yet be clinging to the peas, they move on to the second series of squirrel cages. where the revolving motion again cleans them while cold water is continually dripping into the cage and on them. Now they pass out on to a belt about three feet wide and slowly move along between rows of women, whose business 1t is to pick out any bad peas or any other foreign sub- stance.
 Dropping from this table into trays, they are carried by men to the filler. It is the machine which automatically fills the cans, which are dropped down through tubes from the storeroom above. When the can falls into position on the moving chain it is carried under the spout. which Is then automatically opened. allowing the same quantity Of peas to fill each can, at the rate of sev- enty to eighty cans a minute. The movement is so well timed that It's place is taken by an empty can while 1t moves under the pipe through which the hot liquid is automatically measur- ed and poured into 1t. The can now swings on it's course, going through a. brusher. or wiper, where it is cleaned and any surplus on top brushed off. Two boys now place caps on the cans as they move along past them to the soldering machine, with which is conn bined the ''acider," which prepares 1t for taking the solder. After they come out of there they are branded with the quality and grade while on the way to the 'tdotter," who soldiers the little hole in the center of each cap.
 The inspector then takes his turn, and if the cans are all right they pass on to a table, whence they are removed and put into large steel crates, preparatory to a second journey of some i50 to 200 feet under ground on an endless chain to reach the building where the "cook- ers'' are.
 Comin out of the cookers" the crates now go on to a slowly moving chain. which takes about half an hour to pass through the channel of cold water 15O feet long to the storeroom, whede they are cool enough to handle. Later in the season, when the labelling is done, machinery again takes a prom inent place.
 Among the products of this plant are canned peas. beans. succotash, pork and beans, pumpkins, tomatoes and beets.- Rome Letter, to the New York Tribune.