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is told I have sold for forty cents, so he goes back to No. 1 

 and sells for thirty cents, and then the market is down all 

 around and every producer is hurt. 



If I had owned a canner at home when No. 3 told me my 

 neighbor was selling for a low price, I would have said, ''Well, 

 let the fool go his way. I sell what I can and what I can't 

 I can. If you want these goods at my price, well and good. 

 If not, back home they go and into the cans." And then you 

 can just bet that No. 3 and No. 4 would have come across 

 with the cash if they needed the goods; and instead of our 

 neighbor going home with a grouch against us, he would have 

 been telling our neighbors what a good chap we were and the 

 good work we were doing in helping maintain prices. 



There is nothing mysterious about the process of canning. 

 Any man of ordinary intelligence can master the first prin- 

 ciples of canning in an hour or two, a smart boy will do it in 

 twenty minutes. 



The Canning Process. 



Briefly described, the process for all fruits and vegetables 

 consists merely in preparing them about as one would prepare 

 them for serving on the table, then placing them in tin cans, 

 sealing them up air-tight and cooking a certain time, depend- 

 ing on the article being canned. Heat and heat only is used 

 by the comm.ercial canners to keep the goods, and once the 

 goods are thoroughly sterilized, they will remain for years 

 as good as or better than the way they were packed. 



Every state experimental station will give you detailed 

 directions how to prepare any article you wish to can, so I 

 shall not take up your time here to go into details regarding 

 the precise methods employed with each article. Neither am 

 I going to take up your time describing the machinery and 

 equipment needed in a canning factory. Anyone can obtain 

 this information by writing to any canning machinery sup- 

 ply house and getting their catalogue. I will simply say that 

 there is a wide range in the methods of equipping factories 

 and the machinery used. 



Equipment. 



There are three types of canning factories in operation to-^ 

 day: 



