Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
GAMERS GETTING READY
TO HANDLE TOMATO CROP
OPINION OF SOME GROWERS THAT cRop
WILL BE SHORT AND OTHERS LARGE
Much Activity Among the Canning Factories
Of this Vicinity aud Preparation Made TO
Handle Large Crop of Tomatoes

Mu0n h6h'hJ AmOng the Canning Factories
OF this Vicinity aud Preparation Made to
Handle Large Crop of Tomatoes
More or less interest has been dis.
played among the tomato growers and
Gamers OF this vicinity the past week
in getting ready for a busy cannino
season. The growing and the cannin@
season of tomatoes in this town and
vicinity IS an industry that enoaoas
the attention of large number of neo-
pie and there Is general interest over
the outcome of the crop. The J. H.
Hofecker Canning Company made
their first run on Saturday with a bun-
dred or more baskets of fruit Thev
started again this morning and have
the promise of very busy season.
4 win the improvements they have re-
Gently made to the factory thew have
more than doubled their capacity and
have the latest and most improved
facilities for putting up fruit. This is
the only canning factory in this vicin.
lty that employees all home labor and
1t has proven to be boon to a LARGE
number of families who look forward
to this season of the year. The Torscb
Packing Company of Smyrna Land
ing the Baker and Arthur Canning
Factory of Clayton and the Smith.
mouse and Webster Canning Factory
OF Flemings Landing all employ for.
elgn help and during the past week
colonies of Bohemians have been
transported thither to await the start
ing up of the factories. FOREIGN labor
is used more generally this year than
ever before, as it is being claimed that
local labor is unreliable and trouble
some, as well as being hard to get
Local Factories Make Their First Run.
The Clayton factory and the Smvrpa
Landing factory started operation on
Monday and the Flemings Landing
factory was scheduled to begin yes
terday. For the next five or six weeks
these factories will be beehives of in
dustry and a large quantity of fruit
VIII be put up. Estimates of the to-
mato crop are various, and it is impos-
slble to form an intelligent opinion as
to what the harvest will be. SOM
growers claim there will be a full crop.
while others estimate the yield at one
half the usual crop. Some contractors
however, claim that the crop will be
oe per cent larger than that actually
harvested last year. The vines are
big and healthy and the fruit large
and wholesome. The acreage in this
vicinity is about double that of last
year and for this reason it is thought
the differance will be more than made
up.
The price of canned tomatoes dur
ing the coming winter will likely be
nigh on account of the failure of Wes.
tern crop, and if this peninsula turns
out more of the fruit than last year.
which 1t ought to do with the increased
acreage, it should be proftablet to both :
growers and tomatoes. ..
With Cauneries In Other Parts of Peninsula s
In many localities on the Peninsula
canneries have been established and \
the farmers find it more profitable to S
sell their product to them or to pack .
Ihe tomatoes themselves rather than A
SEND them to the city. Instead of L
shipping tomatoes to the packers in S
larger cities the steamboat companies S
are carrying cans, supplies and Bo- A
lenlan labOrers to the fields where
'he tomatoes are grown. This means
decrease in the freight received from h
me tomato trade, as the fresh. perish q,
'ole vegetables command a higher 6
relght than the canned goods. When .,
ne farmers found they would have q,
." W or no peaches, they turned their vi
'ttentlon to tomatoes. Another cause ;r
accounting for the large acreage this M
'ear Is the fact that large profits were a,
uade out of tomatoes last year, and n
'Sftlcularly by those who canned them fo
'elore they were hauled to the city. h,
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