St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
HOWE CANNING INDUSTRY.
a Source of Great Profit as Well az
Economy.

For the past ~" J~S@@ S@ASAS AActS
heen a large number of steam can.
ming factories established throughout
the country for the purpose OF can
ming fruits and vegetables Of all
l,indr all of which has been great
help to farmers, truck and fruit
Growers. The farmers who heretofore
have heen raising only wheat, oats,
corn hay. etc., for the mark.t, have
trrned their attention to the growing
If fruits and vegetables for the can
neries. Now, if these steam canning
factories can afford to invest from
five to twenty thousand dollars IN ma
obinarv. cans and other equipments,
hire experienced labor, burn costly
fuel and pay the farmers and truck
growers high prices for their fruits
and vegetables. and make from rs to
* ner cent on the investment, can
not q home Gamer be made more
profitable to the farmer?
With home cannery any one can
turn the waste product OF the farm
into cash, and instead of growing for
the Gamers, and giving them large
nroft, the farmer can save that amount
himself. He can buy his cans, labels
and cases almost as cheap as the
large factories; instead of buying
nroduce he can grow his own fruits
and vegetables, and in most cases ne
has his own help. The beauty and
| advantage of them over the large
factories is that they are portable,
can be operated in shed, on porch,
or even take them to the orchard or
berry field, set them under the shade
of a tree, or anywhere you wish
To give an idea of the profit there
is in a home Gamer, not to say any
thing about the good things that may
| he put I'D for your own use, will say
| that last year I bought home can
ner for S33.75 complete. 1t has daily
capacity of 500 cans, and after plant
ing out two acres of tomatoes ana
beans, l made clear over and above
all nv expenses, SPAS, or 1923 to the
acre. I had never had any experience
in growing tomatoes or beans any
more than for family use. =,
nut I'D over 5000 Cans Tor nysell
and other people, with loss OF onls
"a cans, or less than per cent An
stead of selling my tomatoes 10 the
steam factory, which was estaoAsneu
here last wear, for 20 cents per tushel'
the price they were paying, put
them up myself and realized oo Gents
per bushel. Instead of selling my
beans to them for Is cents per busnel'
7 nut them up myself and realized 81
ner bushel: and so it was with the
fr1,its. pumpkins, sweet potatoes, eIc'
that canned. At the prices that the
steam factories pay, fruits and Vege
tables profit the farmers, truck anu
fruit growers more than anything else
thew can grow, but owning nome
Gamer and packing their own SUM
they can save the steam Gamer
profits for themselves.
I have had wholesale and retaii
grocery men tell me that the nome
packed goods give much better satls-
faction to the trade and consumers
than the large steam factory goods
and thew had rather pay from lO 10
Is cents more on the dozen TOR
home-packed goods than for factory
packed. While 10 to Is cents on me
dozen is not much, it is an average
of IL cents on the dozen, or 1 cent
per can, and with a home Gamer
with a daily capacity of mine-SO0
cans-this means So per day more to
me, or cent per can more than the
steam factories can possibly get, yes
they operate with profit of 20 20 Is
per cent on the investment Now, II
the farmer who has been living from
hand to mouth, and taking all of his
} wife's chicken and egg money to buy
some canned goods to eat, will borrow
few dollars from her, buy home
Gamer, put on an acre or two of to-
matoes, beans, etc., and will stay at
home and help her to make the crop
and can the goods, he will have some
thing nice to eat without having to
go to the store for it, and if he wants
| to buy his wife a new dress or pay
some on that mortgage, or buy a new
buggy, just let him can some for the
market and live Independent
: And you, Mr.. Truck and Fruit
Grower, you who have been making
glutted markets and letting your
fruits and vegetables go to waste, buy
: home Gamer and save all that
waste Take those peaches you have
been selling for so cents and rs cents
per bushel put them in cans and get
$1.25 to $3.50 per bushel. You can
do it in thirty minutes. To convince
you, will remind you that one bushel
of peaches is worth rs cents; that a
bushel of peaches will fill twenty 3-fb
cans; those twenty cans, including Ia
, bells and cases, are worth cents per
can, or go cents, and the peaches that
go in the cans are worth Is cents
Cost of peaches and cans, $1.35. Those
: twenty cans of peaches, at the lowest
price of "pie" or "unpeeled" peaches,
would be worth 10 cents, or $1.4O for
your peaches. ..
Farmers, fruit growers and truck
raisers, buy home canning outfit
save the waste product and turn II
into cash; it's the little things that
count.-R. L. Southern. in Southern
Agriculturist.