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cau. The can is filled with com and introduced with a batch of 

 cans in the processing retort; at the conclusion of the process the 

 test can is removed, the thernionieter taken out and the registered 

 temperature is easily read. The test can is then emptied and cleaoed 

 for the next batch of corn to go into the retort. 



PEAS. 



The pea canning business has been greatly modified in recent years 

 by the invention of some remarkable machiner}-, particularly the 

 Chisholm-Scott Pea Viner. Formerly a great army of pickers was 

 necessary in pea canning sections to pick the peas from the vines in 

 the fields. Another a run- of hands was necessarv to hull the green 



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peas and so throughout the whole series of operations of canning 

 peas the hand labor was excessive, tedious and expensive. Now the 

 vines are cut with the scythe or mower, hauled to the factory and de- 

 livered to the viner or hulier which shells and separates the peas 

 from the vines, discharging the latter to one side and the former to 

 the cleaner. The patentees and manufacturers of this viner are the 

 Chisholm-Scott Co., Suspension Bridge, N. Y. They do not sell the 

 machine, but place them with canners upon a royalty basis in re- 

 stricted territories. 



The varieties of peas most generally planted for canning are Alaska, 

 Blue Beauty and French Canner. The first two varieties are known 



