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 CANNING AND PRESERVING. 



This industry is yet in its infancy and very few realize 

 the extent to which it may be developed. Our small fruits 

 and many of our vegetables might be canned with profit, but 

 capital will not come in until there is an assured supply during 

 the entire season, for no one article alone can be made profita- 

 ble. The business is steadily growing, and in time we hope to 

 see in every township a factory which will take the strawber- 

 ries and other small fruits, the cherries, plums, peaches, and 

 pears, and put them on the market in cans or in glass; and 

 then when the grandest of all fruits, the apple, ripens, take 

 the surplus and work it into jelly, dry it, press it into cider 

 and turn that into vinegar. Then with a certain market for 

 all his crop the orchardist and small fruit grower can be as- 

 sured of satisfactory returns for his surplus fruit. There is 

 also a demand for fruit juices for the compounding of many 

 articles, and thousands of dollars' worth of cherry, raspberry, 

 and other fruit juices are annually imported from foreign coun- 

 tries. With a soil and a climate much better fitted for the 

 production of these fruits than that from whence the juices 

 are brought, it would seem a shame that we send our money 

 abroad when it could be just as well employed at our own 

 doors. 



In conclusion we desire to call the attention of 



BUYERS AND EXPORTERS OF APPLES 



to the Illinois orchards. Heretofore the business of growing 

 apples has been mostly in the hands of small producers, but 

 that day is passing away. There are now localities in abund- 

 ance where a car load or ten car loads of one variety may be 

 had. Formerly a few barrels of one variety only were for 

 sale; now this is changed. In a few years, when the young 

 orchards now just coming into bearing have developed, there 

 will be no complaint that car lots of one kind cannot be had; 

 in fact this objection has even now lost its force. The super- 

 ior quality, the beautiful color, and the uniformity of Illinois 

 apples are bound to make them favorites in the markets of the 

 world. In fact, we can see no more profitable avenue open to 



