The Aberdeen Cannery will again be operated this year. The personnel of the concern has changed and new policies have been inaugurated which it is hoped will make the canning of peaches a possible and profitable industry in the Sandhills.
Heretofore the product has been limited entirely to table peaches put up in 2 ½-pound cans. It was found, though, that our fruit here could not be made to compete with the California product, and next to impossible to obtain a fair price for our kind of product.
The cannery this year will limit its output entirely to pie peaches putting these up in 1-gallon cans. No particular aim will be made at a fancy product. Only good wholesome fruit will be packed and the cans well filled.
This style of can will enable the cannery to eliminate a great deal of labor and other expenses required in the packing of the fancier product, and it hopes to gain a margin of profit thereby which will make its existence and continuation possible.
There is an increasing demand for the hotel and restaurant size in all canned commodities and no difficulty is anticipated in marketing the product through established brokers the country over.
The plant is assembled and now ready to begin operations. However, no canning will be done until the yellow varieties begin to ripen as the trade demands a yellow peach. The old equipment has been completely overhauled and electric power installed to ensure steady operation. The season for the plant to operate in is very short, especially as only yellow peaches can be canned, but the management has set a goal of 15,000 cases for this year’s operation.
From page 3 of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., July 16, 1926
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