Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-10-28
Thursday, October %, 1915,
A cANNEeY ON EVERY FARM.

a CANNEHN On EVERY FARM.
Travelling over the country" says an eastern bust
'one is constantly impressed by the reckless
waste of food Dozens and dozens of times recently
have rudey scrawled signs orchard trees and
fences to the effect that apples were free 10 all who would
carry them away. In the country newspapers I have
paragraphs giving the of farmers who would
give apples free anybody that would for them
The yield had been bountifu and the heavy
with fine fruit Much of it will never be picked
IN the East last summer l heard the same story.
There IL about unmarketed vegetables. Every COM
munity has its own story Of waste"
The trouble he observes is of that the grow
ers of perishabie are handicapped by crude and
laundering method of distribution In the far western
problem has handled effectively through
producers organizations which that the products
put The market with minimum Of delay and waste
But parts Of country the old haphazard ways
still prevail making bountiful crop of fruit or yege
tables often a misfortune of a blessing.
under favorable conditions the producer Of food
isn't likely get than 40 per Of what the
sumer pays for it, that is not the most distressing
side it, The difference between 40 and 100 per cen
represents transportation expenses and mddemenH
profits; and though the middlemen may get than
share perform distributing function poorly
and expensvey still the toll they take isn't totally
wasted. IT goes provide living for a great many
people The really tragic in the food that
in the orchard garden or field representing in.
yostment OF money and toll and hope.
city peope are to blame for not establishing better
marketing facilities to lower retail prices But farm
ers are to blame getting full value they
raise
The agricultural industry must organize, other In
dustres have done order to market their products
But without organization it is seldom necessary for
any producers let his output little energy and
ingenuity viii usually provide market for the stuff
Moreover it is possible for almost any farmer to turn
his surplus fruit vegetables into a product that win
keep indefinitely and find sale sooner or later Why
" for example shouldn't farm have little canninz
establishment of its own?
The farmers wife invented canning, but in late years
the big factories allowed to monopolize
dustry. There enterprising farmers and farmers
wives however who beginning to realize the posi-
biue of capitazng the activity formerly confined to
filling their cellars with canned goods for the wn;er
They putting mp their surplus apples peaches pears
pums etc. and their green beans peas other garden
stuff instead of selling them less than produc
lion letting Them spoil.
They often find a ready sale for the goods even witt
the market gutted with fresh fruit vegetables The
may dispose Of them wholesale grocers, the
may sell the goods to a select line of customers IL
neghboHne cities, they may get rid Of them by par
eel post reaching the through newspaper ads
In any case there is hurry The canned produo
win keep. The famermanufacturer can bide his Tim
and his price That price TOO is likely be hghe
and ought 10 be higher than big manufacturers get 70
the sort Of goods. if the farmer applies to tn
business anywhere the standards of exceenc
that his wife applies her household canning tn
product is pretty have a homemade" qualt
that makes it superior anything prepared in quar-
titles TO a big establishment
The farmer has certain natural advantages over IN
city manufacturer. His goods are gathered right on tn
spot and be utilized while fresh without brusin
and decay incident to transportation. He can use III
uuit lbs best of maturity when its flavor full
developed He isn't even at the mercy OF the suddc
rpenIna OF a great quantity strawberries or peach,
pums, for ripe fruit meant for preserves can be ke
for weeks by the simple process of pouring sJ
hcent sugar over it,
Unquesuonaby there is future for the dew
opment of this industry a side issue America
FARMS