The Democratic advocate., 1909-08-20
THE CANNING TRADE
MARYLAND STILL LEADS in THIS
GREAT INDUSTRY
Goods Are Shipped to all Corners Of
Civilization

trade paper of recent date has the
Following article on the canning indus
try of Maryland
In response to the annual demand
from the four corners OF the world
Maryland has turned TO field and fac
tory and Is canning and preserving
the fruits OF the earth for the susten-
anee and DELEGATION of the ruler and Tire
people. Vegetable, fruit and saue,
krout-Maryland cans them all: ga
the greatest OF them Is sauerkrout--
For never has the demand for Mary
land sauerkrout been so great as tbis
season, and the trade In that succul-
ent industry will be proaigious Time
was, and not so long agone, when I'm
Gle Sam imported his sauerkrout from
abroad. In these days, however ne
turns to Maryland for the supply. and
even contemplates shipping II abroad
IN competition with the foreign article.
While Maryland can produce and
can most everything, the pricipal arti-
cles on the list are as follows Beets.
carrots, corn, okra, tomatoes. peas,
pumpkins, sweet potatoes, sanerkrout,
spinich succotash. apples black
berries, blueberries. cherries. goose
berries. peaches, pears, pineappIes.
raspberries, plums, rhubarb and straw
berries. And shiploads OF these 60 10
all corners Of civilization. To Liver
pool, London, and the great ports OF
Europe so tomatoes and pears I'm par
tleular, together with all the other va
rieties. while Australia and japan.
Africa and India. China and Russia
and Siberia also absorb enormous
quantities While King Edward or
Alphonso smacks his lips over rasp-
berries az Si2 dozen their less emf
ourean subjects gloat over pears al
8 cents cantor high and low, rich
and poor feed on the fruits of Mary
land fields.
Even at present while the season IL
young, from 1000 10 10000 cases OF
canned goods are exported from Balti-
more weekly, and these figures will be
more than doubled before the year is
many weeks older. Opening this sea-
son early In June, peas and strawber-
ries monopolize attention. TO be follow
cd IN turn By raspberries and blusber-
riea. Then come tomatoes In August.
together with apples, peaches and
pears, these crops carrying the Gamer
10 the latter part of October, when the
fall and winter oysters are put up, and
thus wind up the season And from
present indications prices viii be
satisfactory But aside from the mere
picking. canning and shipping, the
packing industry puts thousands OF
dollars In circulation In other lines I'm
this section, and even gives impetus
TO trade In the mill towns OF New Eng
land and Canada. In the line Of la
bells, for instance. dozens OF carloads
OF paper are received here weekly in
the canning season, while IN MARYLAND
artists are kept busy working over
time on designs. and lithographers
earn many extra dollars IN supplying
the demands for the Gamers Dray-
men and longshoremen profit by the
Industry, the Institution OF new boat
lines gives employment to engineers
and sailors. and the canning industry
has dozens Of ramihcations.
Just what the industry means TO
Maryland there is really no way of
computing. 80 wide Is It's influence.
Nor can II be figured how many indi-
yiduals and families find employment
IN the field and packing houses, bur
the army runs into the thousands
Everybody works. even father, in the
families OF the pickers, aud instances
Of three generations toiling side by
side are by no means uncommon. Sent
out from Baltimore are many families
mostly foreigners or OF foreign extrae-
ton, who find work in this section
throughout the season. after which
they migrate To the Gulf States and
spend the winter In Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana and Texas, where the oys-
ter Is ripe for longing and packing.
And, despite the trade changes of
years. Maryland still holds it's own in
the canning industry Although the
goods are now sold by New York Job
bers aud others, Maryland supplies the
stun. While thousands OF cases may
be shipped through New York or Phil
adelphia because OF temporarily at
tractive freight rates, Maryland fur
nishes the supply. Big houses get the
government contracts of the competi-
tive bidding system, but they turn to
Maryland for the goods and the trade
Is satisfied with the arrangement. In
years gone by Maryland used to ship
directly to dealers throughout the
world but now ships indirectly
through the jobbers. who are better
able to direct the trade The Gamers
profit just the same, though, and these
jobbers even increase the trade more
maybe than the Gamers could have
done themselves"