Middletown transcript., 1922-09-30
CANNERlES CLOSED
Employed 100 Hands During The
Seasons Pack
PAID FARMERS OVER $4,000

Mr.. G. Harold Bakers corn cannery
which closed Friday has this year, an
average pack of $4,000 cases of "a cans
each. 1t has employed 100 workers for
over six weeks with weekly pay roll
of S2000.0 00 exclusive of $2400 90 paid
the cutters for their season. work
1t has received about 5000, 900 lbs of
corn for which the farmers were paid
Sl5, 100000, or $1,000 ton.
The long process thru which the corn
goes after being weighed on the wagon
at the gate, is one in which many in
, genious labor-saving devises play lead
ing parts.
The wagons empty their corn into
long shed whose V shaped floor permits
the corn to be pushed down upon an end
less carrier which conveys it down 10
shutes into as many husking machines;
thence it goes into another machine
which brushes off the silk and dirt.
This endless carrier also bears the
husks to the rear, emptying them upon
pile whence many teams remove them
as food for cattle. etc.
The corn is then placed on tables
where women cut off the grains A
cutting machine is being tried out that
will displace many pairs of human
hands.
The cut corn is next passed thru
big round tanning machine which blows
away all dirt, the grain husks and
other debris, delivering the clean, white
grains to the Pummer can-filling
machine which by ingenious arrange
ment drops the corn into cans placed on
the revolving round table beneath.
From this table the filled cans are pass
ed by revolving disks into long cover
ed box called the Exhaust" where
they are heated near the boiling point.
Then from the Exhaust" by cum
| ming pair of nterlocking revolving
disks, the cans are waltzed onto an
other endless belt underneath the
"Capper' which drops a lid on each
can, so tightly crimping 1t that no
solder is required as formerly.
After being heated near the boiling
| point the cans are placed in large round
iron baskets, which when full are low
cred into round closed cookers and ex-
posed for As minutes to dry steam.
After being cooled in water the cans
in these baskets GO to workmen who
| place them in boxes, after which they
pass to the labelling machine which en-
| circles each can with pasted label in
gilt bearing the makers name and
pictured motto.
Next the cans are once more placed
in the boxes and nailed up, and then
conveyed to the r. r. car alongside the
warehouse by a system of small ball
bearing rollers operating by gravity.
| Ihruout all this long and complicated
process many precautions are taken by
workers stationed at various points to
insure the highest possible freedom of
the canned corn from dirt, impurities,
etc.
Messrs. Baker and Latham are the
managers. and Mr.. Charles Jones
courteously showed the Scribe through
the plant.
Mr., Baker is also canning tomatoes
at the old Preston cannery. MIR. Chas.
Goodyear is his manager, and will this
year can 20, 900 cases of "a cans each,
which means further large outlay for
growers and operatives.
Mr. Baker will can peas next spring,
and hopes finally to can various vege-
tables and fruits thruout the whole
year. This would mean much to our
local business men and workers