The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-17
CANNING SALMON BY HCHINERY

disagreable work canning
salmon has been necessary employ Chinese
cannee says Commercial
depended seasons seldom goes
strike During the last few years however the large increase in the
number OF cannere operation and the strict enforcement
the Chinese laws Of the country have created scarcity OF Chinese labor
10 offset this shortage OF labor few men with an inventive turn OF
mind have devoted much time money perecng machines
will in great take the place of the Chinese and that will also
greatly reduce the cost Of handling the fish.
The first machine that found to be practicable machine
for filling the automatically This machine worked with such
cson and did the work SO much more accurately that mas almost en-
y suppanted the Chnaman this direction The
soded on more perfectly than could After
this came lacquerng the labelling machine each
and the time nsung the absolute correctness OF the work
There still class Of work though that seemed impossible to pei
do This work the cleaning and splitting of the
got the filling machine Last season. however ma
operated several anners that worked well and did the
only being required to operate
This machine split the fish down the belly and the
entails and did the work well that was thought 6y
many who saw the operation improvement would be
possible This however machine will be operated that VIII 40
1.-THE work so much thoroughly will probably be but mat
ter of time until the year will be discarded
altogether This machine for cleaning fish only does all at
per the fish that has heretofore been wasted by the old
method cutting head off by hand and the time one man
will do the work with the macl me M rmery took
ten to do by hand .
sailing the The machine as the empty can passes
through drops the OF salt into the can that necessary
properly One Of the machines will salt the cans
the largest cannees in operation and do the work that formerly
took dozen Cinnamon to do ,,
n addition the above machines others now being perfected
will the fins off the salmon clean can be done by hand
another that will wipe the clean after they have been manu-
tactured by the can-IdkhS HdSHos anu NS
but years until these machines will be perfected
to such that they will almost entirely suppant the use OF
labor in the salmon canneres AS sheet OF tin paced
machine and its journey toward the filling machine wnee
sailed ready the salmon which was
the deck time and has been beheaded
washed and divided into pieces weighing exactly
pound At the filling machine the fish and the commence then
Journey together passing through the topping machine which places
the the and and then through the soldering
chine and the whipping machine which cleans bit OF grease
Here the taken from the
lines placed then placed in the big steam chests where
they cooked for hour and minutes after which they
taken and small holes punched the ends OF the the
allowed and then they resodered and placed
iron and cooked for another hour After this second cooking
they taken the cooling where they cooled off
tested for leaks from here they the big warehouses; where they
stored until the acquerng and labelling after the fish
ing With the pcng Of the machines mention
ed will only be short time when the Chnaman and Jap will be
curiosity around salmon cannery.