292 FLORIDA FRUITS EVAPORATING FRUITS. 



In one season the ordinary farmer, curing for home con- 

 sumption only, can save double the cost of this busy little 

 worker, which has yet another popular qualification : it is 

 cheap, far cheaper than the vertical machines, which really 

 destroy the fruit rather than preserve it. 



There is a No. 6 size that will dry three bushels a day, 

 weighs two hundred pounds, and costs twenty -five dollars ; 

 then there is a No. 1 which evaporates six to eight bushels 

 a day, weighs three hundred and fifty pounds, and costs 

 fifty dollars. Three larger sizes are made, designed for 

 more extensive work : No. 2, costing seventy-five dollars, 

 cures from twelve to fifteen bushels a day ; No. 3 costs one 

 hundred and seventy-five dollars, and evaporates forty-five 

 bushels; No. 4, which weighs a ton, and swallows one 

 hundred and ten bushels, costs three hundred and fifty 

 dollars ; and No. 5, made only to order, costing four hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars, and eating up one hundred and fifty 

 bushels at a day's meal. 



And still further to facilitate matters, these same manu- 

 facturers, called, by the way, "The American Manufac- 

 turing Company of Waynesborough, Penn.," place on the 

 market a "Parer, Corer, and Slicer," which performs its 

 triple work at one time, and costs only a dollar and a half; 

 and an "Improved Rotary Knife Peach Parer," same 

 price; also a "Peach Peeling Spoon" for twenty cents. 

 Thus is evaporating made easy. 



Any one who chooses to send to this company for the 

 catalogue of their fruit drier, will learn a great deal to 

 arouse his attention and interest in a subject that grows in 

 importance as one looks into it ; and we will further add, 

 that with every drier full and money-making instructions 

 are sent. 



We have elsewhere referred to the great profit of raising 

 the guava, our Florida apple, as it may well be called. 



