The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-09-14

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is weighed up and in the case Of peaches
and plums, put through a grader that
sorts it out to a nicely and dumps it in
boxes according to size, when it is
trucked in whore the girls are. The
first set cuts the peach in two and takes
out the pit Then the peelers 60 for
them. 1t is all done by hand. There is
dead coolies of fine fresh water all over
the building and they amt afraid to
use it. The fruit is then washed thor.
oughly and packed by another set.
They can slap those half peaches into a
can quicker you can say slack Robin
son" SO they'll land. where they're want
ed and have the top pieces lock the
others in. The empty cans are brought
to them and the full ones carted away
in iron basket trays holding % cans.
They are then taken to the syrup ma
chine where boy turns a wheel and
it squirts through 20 tubes about the
size of a goose quill and fills the whole
bunch at once.
Then it is showed along to the capper
who puts on the caps and puts each can
in the soldering machine. The solderer
does nothing but solder but he works
overtime at it. was shown one geezer
that had soldered the tops on $4,000
cans in IL hours. By the time the cans
reach him they are whirling around like
spinning top and the caps are held in
place. He has soldering iron shaped
like G. Washington Ratchet, and the
solder comes to him over his shoulder
in the form of wire and all he has to
do is to hold the iron in the crease and
touch the wire to it and it's done. There
is still little hole in the center of the
cap. That's to let the steam out. These
baskets Of cans are lowered into long
watts Of boiling water by means of an
endless belt and when they get to the
other end, they've been in 1 minutes
just long enough. They are taken out
and these holes soldered up and that's
where the bullet comes from that you
sometimes swear at when you eat the
fruit. Then they are doused in another
tank and cooked from to 40 minutes
according to kind and condition of
fruit.
From here they go to the cooling
room and from there to the warehouse
and are packed in cases. Such, in brief
are the travels of peach. The poorer
looking and small sizes find their way
into cheaper grades and gallon pie fruit,
while, strange to relate, the largest cand
finest looking peaches are sliced up by
a machine that cuts up 100 minute
into accurate slices. Why? Well be
cause the peaches are SO big they
couldn't put more than 4 or 5 pieces
into can and you'd swear you were
skinned on the deal if you only got that
many.
Pears are treated differently. They
are sorted both as to size and ripeness
and always by hand. They too are
peeled by hand and doused right into
water for they'll turn dark if left in the
open air.
This cannery,is one of the largest in
California and has put up as high as
10000 cans in one day and sometimes
uses as many as $50 bags of sugar in a
day. ! could tell you whole lot more
I saw but am afraid my time is up. L
am reminded right here of this ditty:
A Gamer, uncommonly canny, II
One morning said unto his granny,
A Gamer can can anything that he can,
But Gamer can't can can, can he?I
key.
P.s. But believe, they could do it
at HayWards.