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laws and the ollitiai iiispeclioiis will diive all goods thus 

 preserved from Hie iniwkets. There is no reason for using 

 preservatives in caiine*! goods for it has been fully demon- 

 strated that with the pioi)er temperature and time in processing, 

 canned products may be made to keep perfectly. 



CANS. 



Canned goods are put up in glass and tin. The former makes the 

 better appearance, but is much more expensive and therefore can 

 be employed only for a special grade of stock. Tin cans when prop- 

 erly sealed are just as serviceable to preserve the foods as is the 

 glass. In the early days of the canning business when the cans 

 were made entirely by liand, and 100 cans per day was the output 

 of a single workman, they cost the packer about ten cents each. 

 This price to-day would be enormous when we remember that the 

 cost of the food in the can, together with the expense of putting it 

 there is commonlv but one-tifth the cost of the can. 



Meuuill-Soule Tomato Fillek. 



By the introduction of labor saviog machinery within the last 

 thirty years, the cost of cans has been greatly reduced and many 

 factories make their own cans at about the same price they would 

 have to pay for them to purchase from the can making establish- 

 ments. These latter concerns are fully equipped and turn out sev- 

 eral hundred thousand cans per day at one factory. Their prices of 



