No. 2 (lQ2l) REMARKS ON CANNING 59 



not advisable to use upstair buildings ; sheds on a low basement, 

 with concrete and cement or tiled floors and good walls plastered 

 with cement or lime mortar are recommended ; ample windows 

 with screens are necessary ; or the walls may be dwarf walls pro- 

 vided with palisading of wooden uprights or of expanded metal, 

 etc., the roof being carried on masonry pillars. Screens (of tatties, 

 etc.) are necessary to keep out dust, glare, rain, etc., and if flies are 

 troublesome gauze screens may be needed ; anyhow curtains of 

 fishing net are advisable to doors and windows to keep out crows 

 which foul and steal the goods. Indeed cheap and excellent sheds 

 for much of the work may consist of a good floor with very low 

 dwarf walls, pillars, a roof, and heavy coirnet hangings to keep out 

 crows ; good bamboo tatties are however necessary to shut out dust 

 and rain and to close the sheds at night. The curing sheds at 

 Tanur are of this nature. The sheds should be so arranged that, 

 as far as possible, the several processes can be conducted in orderly 

 sequence, without zigzagging from point to point and process to 

 process. The rooms or sheds required are — 



(1) a gutting, washing, and brining shed ; this should be 

 separate from the packing, closing, and processing sheds ; 



(2) a drying ground with scaffolds or 'flakes,' and possibly 

 a drying room ; 



(3) a shed for frying and packing the flsh into containers and 

 for the miscellaneous operations required at this stage; 



(4) a shed for soldering or otherwise closing the containers 

 and for the various processes of testing, exhausting, processing, 

 etc., the closed cans ; the boiler, if any, is usually placed in a shed 

 alongside this room, while the engine for driving the stamping, 

 closing, etc., machines, if any, may also be placed within the pro- 

 cessing room. Of course in large factories the can-making plant 

 will be in a separate building with perhaps its own boiler and 

 engine, but the processing room requires an engine or shafting, etc., 

 driven from an engine, if solderless cans are in use; 



(5) a testing or observation room in which the finished goods 

 are kept under observation (for the detection of spoiled cans); 



(6) storage room for keeping the cans which have passed the 

 observation room ; 



(7) an issue room into which the goods are passed by the 

 storekeeper as required for market, where they are labelled and 

 packed; 



