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used at the rate of about 4 ounces to the two-pound can. Two- 

 pound and ten-pound cans are used in this work and about 36 

 two-pound cans are put up from a bushel of berries. The ship- 

 ping cases contain two dozen small cans and either 6 or 12 of 

 the large cans to each, and practically all of the carload ship- 

 ments are made up of both sizes of cans. 



The cannery of Charles Stewart, Cherryfield, this year em- 

 ployed 30 hands and packed a total of about 10,000 bushels. 

 This is one of the newest and best equipped plants and in a 

 day they packed 700 to 800 bushels with their two cookers in 

 operation. Of this crew about half were men and the other 

 half women and boys who do the lighter work, such as picking 

 over the berries, placing caps on the cans, labelling the cans, 

 etc. The canneries work only a nine hour day for the most 

 part. The average wage is $2.00 for the men and $1.25 for the 

 women and boys. 



The other factories work about the same crews. The three 

 canneries of Jasper Wyman and Son employed about 80 hands 

 and put out a daily total of 1400 bushels in the best of the 

 season. In the county there are the following canneries in oper- 

 ation : 



Charles Stewart & Co Cherryfield. 



Jasper Wyman & Son Cherryfield, Columbia and Machiaa. 



Acme Canning Co Ayers Jet. 



A. & R. Logie Columbia Falls. 



Frank & Hall Columbia Falls. 



Gillis Bros East Machias. 



There may be also a few small canneries but the total crew 

 must have been about 300 hands and the total output is esti- 

 mated as about 80,000 bushels, which is considerably more than 

 last year. 



The canned product is sold all over the United States. Con- 

 cerns in Cherryfield shipped to Florida and California, this year, 

 showing the extensive demand for the product. 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS. 



Total acreage, 250,000 acres. 

 Valuation at $50.00 an acre is $1,250,000. 

 Total crop canned 85,000 bushels, which means about 3.060,- 

 000 two-pound cans. 



