A M College Cannery Sees Record Output This Year
The A and M College horticultural department reports a busier cannery this year with fine sweet corn peaches tomatoes and snap beans canned for the college session. About 5000 cans daily capacity. A 10 horsepower boiler was repaired at a cost of 45. Daily crew includes field workers and a few emas, with production ranging from six to twelve hundred cans per day. A grocery man inspected a tomato can and was surprised.
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College cannery aids canning teaching and sustains mess hall
The cannery serves multiple aims by teaching students how to can, supplying the college mess hall with cheaper canned goods, and enabling horticultural experiments. It notes low costs to produce three pound tomato cans and three pound pear cans, with costs around 10 to 25 cents per can including all expenses.
Early 20th Century Cannery Becomes Local Success
Inquiries from state and out-of-state parties spark detail on a small cannery hailed as a success from launch. The outfit cost 361, with canned goods selling around 35 cents per can. Labor cost 124 cents per hour, higher than typical. A bushel yields twenty two 3-pound cans of Mamie Ross peaches and sixteen 3-pound cans of torus tee last year, with improvements noted this year.
Captured Some Boers in Pretoria Dispatch
Lord Kitchener reports General Knox captured 36 Buys command members after a recent fight. Prisoners include wounded Commandant Joubert and Field Cornets Wolmarins and Dieuricks.
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Rex Dyspepsia Tablets Ad from Bryan Texas
An old advertisement urges relief for dyspepsia and sour stomach with Rex Dyspepsia Tablets. It claims pharmacists are authorized to refund money if the product fails to cure and lists a 50 cent price. M. H. Jam 2, the leading druggist in Bryan, Texas, is cited.
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