Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1922-10-11
United Canneries Corporation
Closes Plant After
Banner Season
Newark's Newest Industry Compliments Local
Farmers on the Quality and Large
Quantity of their Tomatoes
Local Plant Cramped for Room

On Friday last at twelve o'clock
noon, Plant No. 2 of the United Can
neries Corporation closed its activi-
ties for the current season. This
plant, formerly owned and operated
by the P. J. Ritter Co., decided on
this course in view of the fact that
there would hardly be enough toma-
toes brought in during the next few
days to warrant the loss involved in
keeping a big plant open. On Friday
morning a representative of the Post
wandered down to see the final drive
on King Tomato. The farmers had
been informed of the forthcoming
closing and, true to human nature,
many of them failed to clean up their
vines until the last minute. Natur-
ally the yard of the plant was YER
, liable hive of industry. The tomato
growers brought in their big red beau
ties in anything from the old family
surrey to the more up-to-date motor
truck. The main idea, however, was
to get over the scales and unload be-
fore the whistle blew for noon, and
every sort of vehicle provided with
enough wheels to make progress was
pressed into emergency service.
The United Canneries established
their plant in Newark last spring on
a purely cooperative basis. The far
mers of this vicinity are the stock
holders in the organization and
through their help in financing the
concern, it has been able to buy and
equip one of the most modern can
ming and packing plants in the East.
Beside the income realized from their
stock, the Company pays them out
right for the tomatoes as they are
brought in. The success of the CO.
operative idea has been amply proven
in other lines of agricultural pursuits,
and from the comments of the far
mers as well as the enthusiastic state
ments of the officials of the company,
it has taken a firm hold in Newark.
Mr.. R. H. Pollock, president of the
organization, is a man widely known
in canning circles and strong boost
er of the cooperative idea. He
stated that the success of the Newark
plant, during it's first season was
greater than he ever expected, and
that the farmers have taken hold OF
@In tho+ in,
sures the growth of the industry ant
its possible branching out into Other
branches of packing activity.
The interior of the old Ritter plan
has taken on an entirely new aspect
The one thing which impressed thu
writer was the lack of space for thu
proper storage of the great crop. II
every available corner and passage
way stacks of filled cans reach to TIL
roof. The only open spaces through
out the several buildings are thos
which are actually needed for tn
packing of the cans. Mr.. Pollock de
clared that the need for more spac
had never entered his head at tn
beginning of the season, but now tina
the project has proven such a sue
cess, the plant will be greatly en-
larged in preparation for next season
The actual process of canning toma
toes is perhaps we'll known to tn
readers of the Post, and the metho
followed is quite the same as foun
elsewhere. The cooking" is done i
new device, through which tn
canned tomatoes pass in an endles
conveyor. This process completed