THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



25 



Money Made by Having an 

 Evaporator 



THE splendid results that may be obtained 

 by fruit growers with large orchards, 

 through the use of evaporators, is clearly 

 shown by the returns secured last fall by a lead- 

 ing grower in southwestern Ontario, who made 

 enough from his evaporator in two months to 

 pay for its cost, although he paid $350 for it. 

 This gentleman, who is an officer of a fruit 

 growers' association, was interviewed by The 

 HoRTicui-TURisT at the time of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Exhibition. He stated that while 

 the information he furnished was absolutely 

 correct, he did not care to have his name used, 

 for fear the people who read the article might 

 come to the conclusion that he was exaggerating. 



"There are," he said, "30 acres in our or- 

 chard. The evaporator we use is capable of 

 handling 300 bushels of apples a day. It cost 

 $350, and we kept it running for two months, 

 and I believe it paid for itself in one season. 

 Last year was the first season we used it, and 

 its capacity was 100 busliels. This year we 

 enlarged it. By means of this evaporator we 

 are able to save all kinds of windfalls and cull 

 apples that would otherwise be lost. It should 

 last 25 years. 



"We keep one to two men busy all the time 

 picking culls and gathering windfalls. Prob- 

 ably 800 barrels of this fruit is saved. ' In ad- 

 dition to the apples gathered in our own orchard, 

 we buy about 500 barrels from growers in our 

 vicinity. This year we made a profit of about 

 $1,200 net, which is not too bad when we re- 

 member the small cost of the machine which 

 was bought from the Brown, Boggs Company, 

 of Hamilton. The parts of the evaporator cost 

 us as follows: — For each machine we paid $8.25, 

 and we have six ; the slicer for the six machines 

 cost $25, and three" furnaces complete with 

 pipes, $60 each, or S180._ The building we use 

 for peeling and paring is an old one not worth 

 $100, that was used for a cellar and storehouse. 

 Were we to build it new it would not cost $50. 



Wood is used for fuel which is bought from 

 an Indian Reserve near our place. Squaws and 

 girls do the peeling, and they are paid four cents 

 a bushel for peeling and trimming. All the 

 peelings and cores are dried and in this way 

 there is no waste. Last fall was an exceptionally 

 good one for the evaporators, as apples were 

 scarce and in good demand. We received 8 

 cents a pound for output, while in 1904, oj 

 cents was considered a high price. We sold 

 the output of our evaporators! to wholesale 

 dealers in Hamilton, Toronto arid New York, 

 who shipped it to Germany. We are now in 

 correspondence with a firm in Germany and 

 trust to be able to sell them direct next year." 



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