Evening journal., 1923-02-05
PAY MORE Than
CONTRACT Price
United Gamers Corpora
ton Give Growers Sl3
Per Ton for Tomatoes
PLANTS AT NEWARK,
KENNETH SQUARE

Farmer-owne are TO receive
sl.o0 per ton extra over the con-
tract price on tomatoes and all
stockholders to receive per cent
semi-annuai dividend on their per
cent cumulative preferred stock. ac-
cording TO the report of the United
canneries Corporation made public
today
The United Canneries Corpora
ton is incorporated under the laws
OF Delaware, and is a cooperative
packing plant owned and operated
bv 400 growers The officers are:
r. H. Pollock. president; Morton
Harvey, vice. e-president; G. w.
Sharpless, treasurer; w. S. Pollock,
secretary.
It's plant at Newark, Del. was
formerly owned by the Philip j.
Ritter Company and originally cost
S12s.OOO. II has been completely
overhauled by the United Canneries
Corporation and over $4,000 worth
of the newest canning machinery
has been installed. Also. additions
were made to the plant last season
and new warehouse $50 by so feet
long is to be erected this spring TO
take care of the company's increas-
ing business.
In the Newark plant are packed
corn and tomatoes. The brands of
the company are the United Quail
ity' and the United Farm" The
total pack of this corporation dur
ing its first year was over 10000
cases OF canned goods and goods
have been shipped to almost every
state in The Union, the annual re-
port states.
Although the corporation has one !
quarter Of its entire pack yet to be /
sold and is holding it in its Newark /
plant, and in spite of the fact that /
ths plant in Newark is in its first
years operation. the company Gre
ated a surplus and is paying its
stockholders a semi-annual divi-
dend of per cent on their S per
cent cumulative preferred stock and
IS 9eying its farmer growers 81 per
con extra above the original con-
tract price on tomatoes, which was
sl2. ton.
The plants OF the United Can
neries Corporation are open to the
publc"s inspection at all times.
The policy of the United Can
neriss Corporation is to begin at the
source of the supply At the very ,
beginning its supplies 10 its farmers
at cost the best seeds obtainable in
the country. The tomato plants last
season were procured by the Della
ware College Experimental Station ,
and were grown under the super p,
vision Of Prof. Dean.
Road men are continually kept ,
going from one farm to another to
adt!se the farmers how TO get the
bsst results. The farmer-growers
OF this corporation are not permit
ted to pull their corn or pick their
tomatoes until notified by the com
panv at the proper time.
Just at the right time the corn
s pulled out and is brought TO the
plant by the farmers. They drive
,ver a platform which is then ele- q
,ated 10 an angle of As degrees. The q
.orn slides off Of the wagon or truck e
nto a concrete pit where IL is car t'
led bv a conVeyor to the top of e
he corn shed where it is transferred =
o a distributing conveyor so that
I falls down in equal proportion in m
'front.' Of the husking machines, nine u
machines each having a capacity q
Tor husking 100 ears p minute. ei
After this process the corn is car
ried into the main plant where 1t IN
Is fed into the cutters which score IN
the corn off of The cob. II then ~
travels through worm convsyors to al
the silker and after it has gone
through this machine it is entirely u
free from husk and silk II is then tr
carried TO the mixer where II ismix- ri
ed with a liquid Of water. sugar, and IN
salt. This company used FIVE pounds sc
of sugar to the 100 gallons of wa ol
ter more than most other factories, N
which gives it that extra sweet o'
favor
In this kettle the corn Is really
steriiized and mixed with the liquid pI
and then it is fed into the cans IN
which have come from the main
by overhead cable con- o'
reyors. After the cans are filled, &c
hey are carried into the closing al
machines. Two OF these machines ol
ire in operation continually, each p
Machine having a capacity OF 30 NJ
ans per minute.
The corn is now in the cans and 20
ealed. II is then packed in crates b!
md they are lowered by hydraulic
.ranes into the cookers. which are ty
arge iron tanks. They are cooked ca
n these tanks at $50 degrees for SO
IS minutes and are then taken out tv
~ the crane again and placed on &C
/ conveyor and into a cooling tank al
This cools the canned corn b'
promptly and prevents cooking in d'
he cans. The crate Of cans is car m
led on this conveyor the length Of OF
he cooling tank. which is about 40
feet long and II takes a crate seven an