The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-03
HOME CANNING INDUSTRY.
A Source Of Great Profit as Well 40
Economy.

the country for the purpose of can
ming fruits and vegetables Of all
kinds, all of which has been great
help to farmers, truck and fruit
growers. The farmers who heretofore
have been raising only wheat, oats,
corn, hay, ETC., for the markst, have
turned their attention to the growing
of 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
chinery, 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 Is to
rs per cent on the investment, can
not 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
profit, 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
produce he can grow his own fruits
and vegetables, and in most cases he
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 tree, or anywhere you wish.
To give an idea of the profit there
is in home Gamer, not to say any
thing about the good things that may
be put up for your own use, will say
that last year l bought home can
ner for $33.75 complete. 1t has daily
capacity of 500 cans, and after plant
ing out two acres of tomatoes and
beans, made clear over and above
all my expenses. $246, or $123 to the
acre. had never had any experience
in growing tomatoes or beans any
more than for family use.
l put up over 5000 Cans for myself
and other people, with a loss OF only
"a cans. or less than per cent In
stead of selling my tomatoes to the
steam factory, which was established
here last year, for 20 cents per blshel,
the price they were paying, put
them up myself and realized IS cents
per bushel. Instead of selling my
beans to them for rs cents per bushel,
I put them up myself and realized 81
per bushel; and so it was with the
fruits, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, etc.,
that | canned. At the prices that the
steam factories pay, fruits and vege-
tables profit the farmers, truck and
fruit growers more than anything else
they can grow, but owning home
Gamer and packing their own stun
they can save the steam Gamer
profits for themselves.
have had wholesale and retail
grocery men tell me that the home
packed goods give much better salts
faction to the trade and consumers
than the large steam factory goods
and they had rather pay from 10 to
Is cents more on the dozen fol-
home-packed goods than for factory
packed. While 10 to Is cents on The
dozen is not much, it is an average
of II cents on the dozen, or l cent
per can, and with a home Gamer
with daily capacity of mine-SOC
cans-this means So per day more to
me, or 1 cent per can more than the
steam factories can possibly get, ye'
they operate with profit OF 20 20 ~
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
a few dollars from her, buy a home
Gamer, put on an acre or two of to
matoes, beans, ETC., and will stay al
home and help her to make the croT
and can the goods, he will have some
thing nice to eat without having tC
go to the store for it, and if he wants
to buy his wife new dress or pay
some on that mortgage, or buy 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
a home Gamer and save all that
waste. Take those peaches you have
been selling for so cents and Is cents
per bushel, put them in cans and gel
$125 to $3.50 per bushel. You car
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 BIB
cans; those twenty cans, including la
bells and cases, are worth cents pei
can, or so 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 $1.40 fol
your peaches.
Farmers, fruit growers and truck
raisers, buy a home canning outds
save the waste product and turn 1!
into cash; it's the little things thai
count.-R. L. Southern. in Southern
Agriculturist.