The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-23

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pared foods.
We should can more of our We
getables here in the South for the
North and for ourselves. We will
make more money by canning than
we will by shipping in their fresh
state. We will not always be on
the anxious seat wondering whe-.
Their we will make or lose. on our
shipments. A cannery lnsAres a
certain and good market for vege-5
tables and fruit. The farmer takes
chances enough in growing his
crops without resorting to the dis
tant commission markets, where
he has no one interested In him
who will look after his welfare.
The factor of decay is entirely
eliminated. The freights are less
and the canned vegetables are
ready, prepared for the table. The
South must have her canneries for
her Vegetables all of which will
come sooner or later. A cannery
will not prevent the shipmant of
garden truck for the markets
must have it and are willing to
pay well for it when they are not
o~verstocked. Where there is a can
merry to fall back upon there will
be more truck shipped away be
cause the growers will know just
how to grow and have confidence
in knowing they may ship away
or sell to the cannery.
The cannery opens to the far
mer all the markets at home and
abroad wherever there happens
to be a shortage. After the pro-
ducts are canned and ready for
shipment, they must be sold to
the merchants. Nc product sells it
self. There must be a bright man
who is familiar with the trade and
who knows how to get the orders.
1t is good business to keep a good
nan who is always on the alert;
Ut is farbetter to give him a fair
salary than it is to give a poor
man starvation wages. One will
save many times his salary in pre-
venting leaks and unnecessary ex-
pense. He will get better orders
and will manufacture better goods
The poor man will lose more than
the salary of the better man in
bad accounts, In swell heads Ca
term used by Gamers to denote
spoiled goods and other bad
homogeneous. So much depends
upon having the right manager
that his salary is scarcely worth
considering, for you must have
him or some one as capable. Cali
fornia growers have had more
failures over this stumbling block
than over any other. Such men,
capable of handling business of
this character naturally gravitate
to the large cities and well devel-
oped districts where they are in
demand and where capitalists and
manufacturers r eager to pay
larger salaries !. Business men
know that they cannot make mon
ey unless they procure trained
men. The farmer is not accustom-
ed to large salaries and it is the
rule-with them to begrudge the
sums paid for highly trained men.
An illustration of a lacklof exper-
fence will demonstrate this idea.
A Northern cannery engaged a
man who was considered a good
workman to put up green corn.
He succeeded perfectly and the
corn was canned correctly. Sew.
eral cars were shipped when word,
came to the owners that the corn
was dark and had a burnt taste.
They investigated, but found moth
ing wrong: They looked into each
step Of the process from start to
finish. After the corn was finish
ed they found every can was of
light color and otherwise perfect.
They kept on canning until one
day a man Of experience happen
ed to call at their cannery and he
at once asked them to look at their
stock IN their warehouse. To their
surprise they found every can
looked at was dark and slightly
bitter. They then went back to
1.-THE cann9ry and found that after
the cans had been p~rocessed and
finished they were all stacked in
a pile close together. There they
found the trouble. The latent
heat In the corn burned the goods
before they could cool. The finish.
ed corn should have been stacked,
no two cans touching or they could
have been quickly submitted to a
cool bath. This incident was an
accident and goes to show that
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