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rious preserves are sold all over the Union, pen 

 etrating even to the gold mines of Pike s Peak, and 

 consumed in every ship that sails the ocean. The 

 demand increases as their productions become better 

 known. They contract for whole orchards of peaches, 

 and last year used 26,000 baskets. Of common 

 wild blackberries they consumed immense quanti 

 ties : of pine apples 3,000 dozen cans were pre 

 served ; of raspberries and currants they consumed 

 wagon loads. In addition to these items, they put 

 up 60,000 jars of honey, and 36,000 bottles of 

 champaign. Pears and good plums they have 

 never been able to procure in sufficient quantity. 

 This year, 1864, they will want some 40,000 baskets 

 of peaches, and fifty acres of pickles. They employ 

 400 hands, principally women, and can put up 

 nearly 20,000 cans daily. Their pickle tank holds 

 25 barrels, which are greened in 24 hours, and re 

 placed by as many more. In 1863, this establish 

 ment consumed 30,000 worth of sugar. 



Here is a single manufactory which buys or 

 chards, cucumber patches, strawberries, raspberries, 

 blackberries, tomatoes, &c., by the acre. But it is 

 only one among many others doing quite as large a 

 business. Every city contains several such, and 

 they are springing up in all the smaller towns. 

 Even in the present infancy of the business, they 

 exercise a marked influence in preventing a dis 

 couraging glut of the general market. The public, 

 having had a taste of canned fruits and vegetables, 

 call for increased quantities. The market for these 

 perishable productions, instead of being limited to 



