The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-01

about it. Some say there is no chance nowadays for the small canners. This is not so. To get enough help, the large canneries must be located in the city, where labor is abundant. Conse- quently the supplies must be shipped in from the surrounding country, ofttimes from a great distance, jolted, for miles over rough roads, or sent by railroads, where they are subject to the toughest handling. The result is that the raw material arrives at the factory in very poor condition. soft, mushy and bruised. Then being handled in such great quan- titles. the work is hurried and the pro- duct turned out is very inferior. They pack quantity at the expense of quail ity, with the same result always, low selling prices and small profits. On the other hand, a small outfit operated on the farm has the advantage of using home help and homegrown materials. You can market all your surplus crop right at home. For inStance: If you raise large crop of berries, cherries, rhubarb. peas, beans, tomatoes, sweet goods in the market while the price Is high, but as soon as the price goes down, you can keep your goods at home, put them in the cans and sell cated where the goods are grown, you have the very best raw material. By overseeing the work yourself, you make d very superior product, which you can d+WdyS sell the store III your town at a great premium over the price paid for the regular factory goods, or you can retail them yourself among your neighbOrs. Besides beneiting your self, you have helped the community, for you have kept the money at home that otherwise would have been sent away to purchase outside goods, A man having a small outfit can make profit in two ways. Take, for instance, strawberries. For years we have rais-- ed these berries for he market. When the berries first ripen and the market orens we get IS cents per quart for them, then 10 cents, and so on, until at the last the market gets hull, and Strawberries are a drug at cents per quart Then We stop selling them and buy them back for canning. The ber- ries we have sold at first will bring three quarts now. and we get the profit on canning all three quarts, using the money that the first quart brought, The business has furnished it's own capital and given us the profits be- sides.
 It is the same way with string beans. At first the price Is about $2 per bushel. Then there is an enormous profit in selling the raw material, but the mar ket sometimes during the season goes as low as 40 cents per bushel. Then we can at our full capacity
 Tomatoes are $4 per bushel early in the season, and later on get as low as 20 cents per bushel. One bushel of carry tomatoes VIII lHPn puy twenty late ones, so you can readily see that there is a profit at both ends of the business.
 By packing drop apples in gallon cans and selling them to bakers. you can realize a dollar or more per barrel for stock that ordinarily goes to waste, or is made into cider. If you care to, you can do a very profitable business canning the crops of your neighbors. They bring the goods to you. and you put them in the cans, and give so many cans of the finished product for bushel crate, etc. In this way they furnish everything for you to work on and you get the profit. Should any of my readers become interested I should he pleased to give further in formation. R. A. Stewart.
 2OS w. Lee St, Baltimore, Md.