Country Life
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Much general interest was expressed in the opening, last month, of a big cannery in the fruit-growing district of Worcestershire ; but I do not know whether any critic suggested how far this form of preserving and marketing fruit and vegetables is to be carried before the end of this year. A big cannery, for example, is to be opened within a few weeks in Kent. It will be on a large scale and will deal with wide- spread supplies from the increasingly intensive " garden of England." Each of the chief fruit-growing districts will have its cannery, but this is not all, or nearly all. For some little while a pioneer cannery along-side the offices of those pioneer co-operators, Badsey fruit-growers' Association, has been in efficient work, and it may be taken as a link between the large establishment, of which most has been heard, and the one man cannery. The mechanical art, if not science, of the process of canning has now been so perfected that a single gardener may undertake the work in a cottage, and in fact quite a good many do. The plan is cheap, is easily operated, and all the old dangers of poison are eliminated.
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