The Newark journal., 1915-01-29
ADVANTAGES OF A
 CANNING FACTORY
Some of the Ways in Which They Help the Farmers and Business
 Men of the Community

Notwithstanding the fact that the canning industry is more than 50 years old in this country, and canned goods are as common in the majority of homes as sugar and coffee, yet there are few who have any conception of the won- derful advance made in this line within the last few years.
 It is supposed by the ordinary farmer or merchant that the can- hing of vegetables Is confined al most exclusively to Maryland, New Jersey and one or two other of the far away Eastern states and that 1t requires a great deal of capital and a wonderful amount of technical knowledge to make any kind of success in the canning business. But when we come to investigate the rapid progress made all over the country in re. cent years by the canning indus try, we find that such IS by no means the case. In many parts of the country, farmers and busi ness men have learned that the canning of home grown products IS one of the surest and most profitable avenues of wealth open to them. They have learned that no other business connected with farming is so sure to bring cash reward as is that of growing and canning vegetables
 They have learned that with the help of a reliable canning factory they can earn more ready cash in six to ten weeks in the fall season than can be made in the entire year in other kinds of employ ment In fact, many of them have learned that a few acres planted in tomatoes and berries and prop erly cultivated and the products canned, will bring more ready cash than several times the same num- Der of acres planted to other crops and also that this work furnishes employment for every member of the family at the time of year when there is least to do in other crops.
 This all means much to the in- dividual farmer and to the con- muninty at large.
 We hear a great deal about di- yersifed crops and 1t is well rec ognized fact that the people of those communities in which the greatest variety of crops are grown are much more prosperous and contented than those who depend entirely upon one or two crops, and for this reason, thinking men everywhere are advocating the greatest possible diversity, both in the growing and marketing of tarm products. It is evident that the farmer or truck grower who finishes his products before placing them upon the market is sure of a greater profit than the one who disposes of them in the raw state. If there were no profit in the pre- paration of food products, there would be no factories engaged in this work. If the farmers of this community could prepare their own products for the consumer before marketing. them, the farm CTS would soon become rich. If the cotton crop of the South were made into the finished products by the growers, Dixie's prosperity would amaze the world.
 Since there IS chance for the growers to join hands with others and own and operate canning fac Sories ia Witch they can. paSk a9 kinds of vegetables, fruits and berries, and thus add the canner's profits to his own. There is no 1gooa .:-ss sa.ssssss why shs.-aeassmers of this community should be com pelled to buy canned goods that
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