The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

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 Canning. where fruit and vegetables are concerned. was once the work nf the housewife in her own Kitchen. It Is, In many small instances, still a rii- ral industry, where machinery has ta- ken the greater burden or the tndlvid- uai woman, and where the plant in it's perfection offers labor to a goodlys num- Der of the -neighborhood population Scores of semi mi-rural communities in the past five years have established can neries to use the products from Srvck farms where shipping facilities have not proved adequate. The canneries 10. cated on the Gulf and on the South At lantic seaboard have advantages that the more Northern oles have not They can put up packs of oysters In the season, and then hold the factories open for the greater part of the re- maining months by using the fruit and vegetables of the rich 'tide-w water coun-. try. Several factories. led by one in Mtsstssippi have undertaken this dou7 b1e duty.
 'rhs art Of canning is century old. yet It's greatest impetus was received in the past quarter century. It is an offspring of the first French Republic. "A prize was offered for the beat meth cd Of preserving altmentary substances In q manner that would not impair their flavor or detract from their nour- atshing Qaalftiesa Tor years Nicholas Appert experimented, and aAalIy siic- As. A.. .f- ANA rsa. or pickling, preserving and beer-maIx- ing, Appert died in want andr neglect, but the process he discovered remains today as he found it, and has been a boon to countless millions. tAs
 Early in the nineteenth century Peter Durand of England took out patents for dramatically sealing jars of tin. glass and pottery and i've years later Ezra Daggett brought the knowledge Of the process into New York. Some 0f the goods that Daggett put up in 1929 are still in perfect state of .preserva- tion. s%
 One man in America knew at that time the secret of this wonderful artss Today 1t is Known to every housewife in the land and 60.000 people besides make a regular livelihood by putting, up fruits. vegetables. fish and oysters in afr proof packages for, the market j There was one establishntent then: :sJiow5 there are some 5000. The size ofsso,sla of these may be gathered from a ,cer- tain Michigan factory whose eaiting sheds hold at one time 100000 bushels of pickles. Daggett's capital was in- considerable; today the capital invest annual output from the factories ap- proximates $200.00O.oO0. Hundreds of millions of cases are required to hold the goods and 1t takes between 5000 and 20 coo box cars for their transport ation. Even the refuse from canfIerles is a paying marketable product being A fertilizer of superior quality, rich in nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
 Maryland leads in the canning of. vegetables is second in the canning of fruits, but has been outdistanced by Mississippi in the canning of oysters-- it's pioneer product. Mississippi more than doubled it's oyster canneries in the period between 1900 and 1905. Cali fornia leads in canned frutts. This is fulflment in part Of the prophecy made by Horace Greedy many years ago. Fruit growing" he said ''is destined to be the ultimate glory of California; Between the years 1900 and 1906 Cal- ifornia doubled its shipments of canned fruits, reaching over 7.700 car leads iii the latter year. Alaska leads1in canned fish, though tho salmon canning indus LfV WdS pOtH GAesAAS a~ second in fish canning, and was the first to put up sugar corn. New York canned tomatoes in the days when they were known as Hove apples"
 Even as Appert discovered the pro- cess of canning in answer to the French governments offer of reward for a non perishable food for use in the Davy, so war has always given chS greatest impetus to the industry. The first canning done fin America on any considerable scale was when pr. Rane's polar expedition was being outtltted In 1S4s. and the next great impetus was given by the civil war when large con tracts were placed for army use Today canned goods :s an Integral part of the koutht of a miner. logger. soldier or 'ail- or.
 The method used by Appeft is the same. in principle. that is used by nII canning establishments of todnv. The decomposition of any fool is due to the action of living organisms known as | ''ferment'' Appert heated the food he 1 wished to preserve to temperature