The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-03-04
SAUR KRAUT AND CATSUP.
Important Enterprises are not Unfre-
qaently Developed from IIum-
bic Beginnings.

Tall aches from little toecorns
grow" is an amusing mutilation
of a grand old proverb that served
as copy at the head of a page
of fools-cap, placed there by the
schoolmaster in the days before
the patent engraved copy books
now used in our schools were
thought Of. Many of the most
successful enterprises of modern
times originated in some very
small beginning. 1t is but COM
paratively few years since Hen
ry Heinz, an industrious dutch
man, planted his garden in
Sharpsburg, Pa, in horseradish,
and when it had matured, he
grated it with a hand crater, and
peddled it out among his neigh
bors in a basket carried on his
arm. To-day Mr.. Heinz is many
times a millionaire, and his prep
arations are sold in every grocery
in the world. Joe Felz the fa-
nous soap maker, who died a
few days ago, having made and
spent millions of dollars, began
the manufacture of soap in a
small way, in an out-of-the-way
place. But his product was just
a little better than that of his
competitors, he was as careful of
his habits and character as he
was Of the quality of his soap,
and success came to him as nat
urally as water runs down hill.
And to come closer home, few
years ago, over in the little OLD
oried up village Of Bedford,
lived a young man by the name
of Henry Heckerman. Had he
been very ambitious, he might
have studied spelling and mental
arithmetic and become a school
teacher. N OF having money
enough to buy an iron furnace or
an oil well, he bought a bag of
peanuts the jumbo kind that are
a little bigger than the common
ones, roasted them carefully,
took them around and sold them.
Those who bought them wanted
more of the same kind; the de-
mand increased so rapidly, that
it kept Henry busy to keep ahead
Of his orders. Without following
his history in its details, he now
has a large five-story factory,
with all necessary modern ma
chinery, and scores of men, wo-
men, boys and girls, putting up
roasted peanuts, salted peanuts,
peanut butter, &c. In addition
to this, he has a candy depart
ment, in which he makes and
ships candy by the carload every
week.
And now, comes a story from
Indiana, very similar to the a.
bove. 1t is told by Abner Sipes,
an uncle of George G. Sipes, of
Thompson township. Mr.. Sipes
in sending a dollar to renew his
subscription to the News, tells
how the farmers in the neighbor-
hood of his town (Pierceton, Ind. J
have been making great money
out of the truck business. A
plant was put in for the manu-
facture Of sauer kraut, and for
catsup and chill sauce. When
the plant was being put in, there
were those who prophesied with
long faces that the proposition
would be a failure; but during
the season of 1918, there were
delivered at the factory for cat
sup and chile sauce 4,046, ,316
pounds of tomatoes or 2, 023 tons.
Of cabbage the receipts were 2,
921, 705 pounds OR 1469 tons.
This was made into sauer kraut
which filled thirty tanks, each
holding from 5000 to $500 gal
Ions. Just how far the odor
could be smelled has not yet been
figured out.
The success of last season was
due largely to the abundant sup
ply of good plants which was
grown early. There were grown |
1, 320, 600 plants and a large num-
ber-were sold after the acreage
had been filled. The supply of
cabbage plants figured at l.
$4,000. To grow these and have