Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — Floating Canning Factorys. [ARTICLE]

Floating Canning Factorys.

New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. An ocean-going canning factori sailed from this port for the Florida Keys and the West Indies, today. She has aboard 50,000 cans of one and two pound caliber, in which if is proposed to put fish, fruit anc meat. There are boilers and all the apparatus of a canning establishment aboard, as well as a first class chef and expert ‘ ! cantiers.” The expedition will make a specialty of thal succulent fish, the pompano. Turtles will also be largely caught, and, under the benign influence of the chef, will become canned turtle soup. When the fishing is bad the schoonei will visit West Indian ports and barter calico and Waterbury watches with the natives for fruit, which will also go into cans. The expedition expects to come back loaded with guava jelley, among other things. Whether a cannery on the spot can compete with the big ones ashore remains to be seen. At all events, the preserved fish and fruit to be put up by the Yankee genius who heads the enterprise will have freshness in its favor, which shquld command an extra cent or two over the other sort.