DUSTBY. 



lot 



liwrle* The report of the mt> 

 department up i Jan. I, 1807, 



Hi.iM III" I thn: 



marine 

 rim-lit in 

 i.umU-r of hghu u, 



5 ten years ago. The 



c and' rr,.,r* ,,f U..- 

 W..MW. The total number of 



and Cana- 



ll.r i,u..,hrrof 



lost was 43. The registered mer- 



UW ton%. U-ing an inm-A-- of 17 ** 

 Tase of B6J97 tow compared 



II 1. 1 



b $3W,6 7H.OOO. During the year W7 new v< 

 and registered, of' a valu 



M sabmttted on Mav 37, 



and was not sal sifatHtu y in ninny r ! 



:.-n, Ihr fi trt of 



.'.TOOMIIlii: 111. I III ^ II.- 







: "belies was computed at $20,100.- 

 S8H, being a decrease of over $500,000 compared 



Jir. 



h the except*. h Columbia. hi. h 



shows a sir 1*500,000, ami Nr\% Brun- 



t increase, all 



.111 last year. The figures 



f fish con- 



!i of Briti-h Colum- 

 bia n: 



;.nr in the history of Canadian li-h- 

 aries salmon, an anadroinous fish, has Mipplant.-,! 

 ^^Btgtn : -sea cousin. th< 



'i.- Inltrr has .i 

 $500.11110. the value of thr f.>rmrr has increased by 



-aim* amount, thus rr\ri>inc thr >: 

 f $1.000,01)0 which . \isT, .1 M, IV. | u 

 o species. Other must im|>ortant fluctuations 

 .re inrn-a-M- in herring and sardines, and 

 thr f.i n innrkrrvl and lobsters. 



\N\I\(. IMH x| |;\ 



put up annually I 



^^KrieS Ml. -. al'<-u! onr tl. 



,' in inrnt*. and the n-tunin-: 



and vegetables. Thr annual out put in 



of all -i,, 1 in rr 



art- al-.ut J.iKNi ran 



id a htt Ir more than 



hin that State. 



and California, in the order 



named, are thr Statm n. \t m.-i pnnliu live of 

 d goods, but there in hardlv a Statr in the 



> not some share in thr iml 

 Illinois \ and Indiana are largely 



n to alxnit 1 .000.000 persons. < 1 in- 



Thr iiuinU r n-x'ularU employed b fewer 



Thr luMry liegins about 1880, 



Introduction of machinery began t. 

 plant thr hand labor that ha*i loted in a 



i 'rrra- 

 'onipany, of Bridget on, N. J., and 



the nanvJafltan of 



.:.,-.:.: r:,.' - , ' . ' ..". : _ ,., 



of law-* . 



orgauixai own 



Iteti B began ... >- 



iunin,..r*. 10 

 



rtult 



in Indianapolis in I8W; thr 



1K4; and thr AlUi 



lUltimonr in the 



1:. . ' .'. ...,- 





.. r,.' .- 





.. -., V . 



-.-.... .- .^. jMHUjr north and wast of 



fraturt-of thr i*. k -hilr salmoci u put 



nta, and oyster- 



supplying toe canneries, while m/Htt oyster tmits 

 and 30.000 men are enjafsd in raisin* oysters for 



' ' BUM i . ' : ! ' .. : - . 



tfarjiaad s. ^ i . . .. 



. here the most brans 

 are parked. New York being a close second. 

 milk, apples, pears, pineapples, small fruits geaar* 

 ally, pumpkins, squashes, etc.. are put up in large 

 quant r ver they are plentifully grown. 



-10.000.000 of capital invested in the 



the I i,:t..i Mates, and about 



-0.000 is paid out annually in wages. The 



raw material costs about $40.006.000. Almost all 



joods packed a tnestie consumption, 



-h the export trade is increasing, the canned- 



465 ti yrar. The canned-meat export is 



known to be larger than that of the fruit, but the 



exact figures are not obtainable, own 



of classification of the exfiorts. Great Britain takes 



the greater part of the export. Canneries flgHI 



in packing fruit and vegetables are obliged to do 



most <>f thnr work -i .ring a few months of the 



MI miner, 







cheap labor in ti 



m $2.50 to $1 a tlay in wages, a great 

 deal of the work being done by women and chil- 

 drrn. who are paid by the piaca. 



irge porn u plate produced in the 



country i iiM-d in making cans, and many of the 



ate concerns are also manufacturers of cans. 

 Thr cans are mostly round, though square and ob 



ans are common. All the work is door 



. 



w it h presses and dies, and put togrthrr ith 

 and header*. For many years it was necessarv to 

 oat hand labor fur scaling or closing up the 



t. ir wor .uring a ew monts o te 



omparativfly idlr the remainder of 



v generally engage all the floating 



bor in the vicinity during their busy months. 



aftrr filing', but a practicaJ mechanical capper was 

 mir- ut 1883. and there are now set era! 



capping marhinea in the market. An .fficient cap- 

 per will solder 40.000 cans in a day. 



machinerv of a rannin. 



fruit and vegetables includes usually a steam boiler 

 j a water bath. thi being connerted bv 

 pipes with rariou* unk and kettles used in scald- 

 ing an.l blan. > assists the skinning 

 operation, ami tomatoes or the like, held in ire 

 basket v are dipped in the kettles just before skin- 

 Cookers are made in a great variet v of forma, 

 according to the nature of the goods and the caps- 

 .^uired. They usually have a Mnijcr as an 

 attachment, for applying a definite amount of 

 tirup to each can. and frequently an automatic 

 can-filling attachment constitutes a part of the 



