Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-25
THECANN|NG INDUSTRY
Value of the Product Doubled in
Last Five Years.
THOMAS KENSETT PIONEER
Why the Jungles Of India Are Not
Cleared.
PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLAND
Andrew Johnson's Inauguration as
Vice President as Described by
Hannibal Hamlir.
THOMAS KENSETT PIONEER
PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLAND
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.

Written 70" The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald
A convention of persons interested in the
canning industry in the United States has
just been held at Buffalo, and DR.. Wiley
of the Department Of Agriculture went up
there to explain to them the policy and the
practice that will be followed by the gov
eminent In the enforcement of the pure
food law. This law requires that the label
shall state precisely what is in the can,
which will allow the buyer to know what
he is getting. Maple syrup made from the
sap in Vermont will be 80 indicated, and
maple syrup made in Chicago from glucose,
favoring extracts and the tops of old boots
will be identified from the printed formula
on the label. Every glass of jelly. every
package Of prepared breakfast food must
be described for the Information of the pur-
chaser. and no doubt there will be many
surprises when people discover what they
have been eating.
The Gaming and preserving industry has
rapidly become one of the most important
In TT. United States. Twenty-Five years
ago nearly all our preserved fruits and
vegetables were put up IN the kitchen, and
IT was considered very bad form to use fac
factory made pies and cakes. But nova
days very few housewives do preserving;
all our ice cream and cake come from the
caterers. and as little of that sort of food
is made in the household possible.
Growth Of Canning Industry.
In 1880 there were only 400 canning es-
Establishments in the United States. with a
capital of $S,OOO,GC0 and an annual product
of ST. .OtO,CEO. Today there are nearly $500
establishments, with a capital of so 90 600
and an annual product of about $11O, $50 Coz
In 1905. according to the census figures
590SS people were employed in canning es-
adjustments, and they received $40, 425,5 21
in wages.
The value of the product has doubled dur
ing the last five years. The value of vege-
tables canned increased from $2S. 73l .59S in
1900 to 1922. 14S in 1905; dried fruits in
creased from A,757,OO5 in 1900 to $15, e64, 1874
in 1905: of which $13.SCo.GO1 was produced
In California. California Is the banner state
and produced $24,s26. 12S worth of canned
fruits and vegetables in 1906. This was an
increase from 81, .2Gl in 1900. New York
was second with $12.clO,75 and Maryland
Il close third with $l2. FOSSIL
Maryland used to be the banner canning
state. but it has gradually dropped down
10 the third place. and last year showed a
decrease Of $2.OOO0OO or more Maryland
is losing even the oyster packing traffic
which is going to Mississippi. Thomas
Kensett began to put up oysters in Balti-
more as early as 1922, and until 1904 that
city was the center of the trade but many
of the Gamers have moved down to the
gulf, where oysters are cheaper and more
convenient. and have located their canneries
Mt the edge of the water, where they have
their own wharves. The oyster boats come
alongside and shift their cargoes to trucks
which run along on rails to the shueking
rooms. There the oysters are opened within
an hour or two after they are taken out of
the water. Everything is done by auto
matte machinery. The oysters are opened
by steam. and after the meat is removed
by hand they are washed. packed in cans.
sealed and labeled by mechanical con-
trivances.
The oyster industry, however, is COM
paratively insignificant. The entire value
of the crop last year was only s., 7e9, Alp.
while 2S, 2O4,2 cans of tomatoes were put
up. which Is an average Of nearly three
cans for every man. woman and child In
the United States. and they furnish about
the cheapest food within the reach Of man.
kind. In 1905 the output was 9.301. 2H
cases. valued at 81. se5, 100. which is an
average Of less than $50 q case of twenty
four cans, or about cents q can. Mary
land is at the head OF the tomato industry,
and packs more than one-third of the en-
tire product, five times as much as any
other state except Indiana.
We pack more corn than tomatoes more
than 100000 cases last year valued at
10000. Iowa, Illinois and Maryland
York and Ohio both do considerable bust
ness.
There were packed last year 100, OOO. 900
cans of peas. valued at 100000. New
York produced more than third Wis
consin about one-fourth and the rest were
put up In fourteen or fifteen different
states.
The statistics about peaches are rather dis
appointing. They do not compare with
those of vegetables that I have given In
1905 there were packed 1,3O2, $40 cases, val
ued at So, S94 272, about the same as oysters.
California put up more than half Mary
H., Aln,. l.-IG
many as California. and Michigan. which
is popularity supposed to be a great peach
packing state. reports only $3.50 cases. val
ued at $179,S