Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-21
THE GAMERS MOBILIZE
BY FREDERIC ]. HAsKIN.

YASHINGTON D. c., April 1.-THE American
w canning industry is mobilizng for the big
W packing which lasts from May until
August Plants already in California where
asparagus is just the heightn of its boats
starting for Alaska with machinery and equipment
packing salmon, and large outfits their to-
ward the big agricultural sections the country that
yield plentiful supplies tomatoes peas and
oyster shrimp packing establishments
Baltimore and along the Mississippi river have just been
closed.
Since it is necessary to can a product as soon as
gathered because of its rapid
deterioration the canning industry establish
central branch in large city abundant
supply of labor the products shipped to it.
Instead 1t must transport its employees and equipment
to the section where the plentiful pack
within twenty-four hours after earth.
lille this factor is of the
Gamers. it is beneficial to the consumers.
buying canned vegetables products
they usually do in the city markets.
Corn for example deteriorates more quickly than
vegetables; hence it is rushed through
greatest possible speed sometimes
quantities get results just twelve
hours may elapse between the gathering of the
the sealing of the is grown almost
entirely Connecticut and distributed among the
ferent sections of the country growing
the packing industry. In the season. packing
Establishments numerous all the way from Maine
Maryland, and west to Missouri and thence
Pea packing is carried from New York south to
Maryland, west to Indiana and north Mime
sota while peas also canned California
Colorado. Tomato packing embraces practically the
territory.
Modern machinery has done much to facilitate the
swift harvesting and canning of vegetables. Peas for
example, longer cut by nand instead, the vines
with a moving machine. A special thresher
the peas from the pods, they then
sorted according to their size. This is done by sorting
machine, consisting of series Of cylinders having
forated slides The first the smallest perforaons
thereby admitting only the smallest peas; the second
has larger perforatons which let through the
size, and until there five different Of
There is difference in the quality
thus graded since all equally fresh from the vines
but the small succulent variety. known Peas
the greatest amount of nutrment. demand.
Each vegetable requires different type Of machin
cry Corn husked silked. the packed
by various machines while string require
ate machine for from the sringing and
cutting into lengths the final packing they
banched and parboiled are first placed
without breaking the fruit after which they
and the skin is pealed off by another machine More
hand labor is used in the preparation Of tomatoes
in any other vegetable experiments now being
made with machinery designed TO eliminate much
OF 1t possible.
In the old days when almost the entire canning
analysis people somewhat justified
suspicion of everything marked canned Then came
machinery which gradually eliminated the
the old system, that canned became fresher
that purchased in the form, canned milk
great deal cleaner than the supply delivered
in the city But the they still
had to do battle with the ancient prejudice against