The Tupelo journal., 1906-08-03

Farmers Union and other organizations
with the welfare of the agricultural
classes as their object, a campaign could
and should be i~naugurated that would
produce results of great value to the cot
ton ~raisers. A great deal of hard work
and some money will be necessary to
accomplish the desired end, but neither
could be used in a more worthy cause.
1t is time that our great money crop was
receiving the attention at the hands of
lawmakers and others that it deserves,
and the sooner an active movement is
begun, the sooner will the desired end be
accomplished.
The advice of men who have done
things is to be considered far above those
who can only advance theories. The
writer has noted for years the success
that has attended the efforts of Hover
ton Bros, at Guntown, Miss, in the
line of profitable fruit raising. By re-
quest, G. L. Howerton furnishes the fol-
lowing article on a small cannery to care
for fruit that is not fit for shipping, and
also to take care of the crop should the
market fall so low that shipments might
not prove profitable:
Having found a good thing we de-
sire lldl OtIcI may hhoN oDOut ~.
Ever since we have been growing peaches
we have been DESTROYS of trying canning
i'm a small way, that we might take care
of the surplus and save ourselves from a
ruinous market. 1t has not heretofore
been safe to make this trial, as at least
we were not certain that such an efoIt
would be attended with success. This
season we made the venture on a small
! home cannery, and it's so easy--as the
boys would say, dead easy
can intelligent 1S-year-old boy can
run it. For the expenditure Of a small
sum-, $50 to $50, a farmer can Install a
little plant in his orchard that will can
from 500 to 1000 three-pound cans per
day. Now l mean to preach tie home
made canned goods. When we buy from
the large concerns we are not sure that
it is clean, and we do not know that the
fruit was good and fresh when canned.
But with the home %canner,' i'll your
orchard, you can know both these things.
"Now, / say, let's can all that we can.
There is no need to can, of conlse, when
kthe market for our peaches Is good.
Often there are peaches that will not
ship-can them; if the price .uns down
can them. A bushel of good peaches will
make one and one-half dozen three-pound
cans. No trouble to sell this 1ne aid 4
half dozen cans for $500. If half the
income is profit, you have SLIGO per
bushel for your peaches.
$50 plant you 500 or 1000 Eiberta
peach trees, and if you cannot ship them,
can. them. Georgia is selling us canned
peaches now, yet there are thousands OF
acres in Mississippi well adapted to their
propagation. Another thing: When you
get them in the cans you can eat them at
your leisure and convenience. Few peo-
| pie in Mississippi have ever had as much
as one can of peaches to open each day
in the year. Yet most of them would
eat three cans in a day and be better Off.
Yes. sir! it's worth installing a small
Gamer to see zach and all the children
eat all the peaches they want each day
in the year.
But peaches are not all. There are
black berries wasting on the briars. Save
them in the can. No farmer need hunt
far to find a market or customers for
his home canned goods. Let's not let the
| North ship all of these goods here any
longer. Let's can all we use and Il sur
plus to SELL"
There is good reading in the above.
Too often there is fruit that will not do
to ship; this little canning outfit VIII
take care of it. At times the market
| drops until there is nothing left alter
paying freight and other expenses; put 1t
up in cans and either use OF sell when
| there is a market. Read and consider
carefully what Mr.. Howerton says.