NATIONAL JAM-MAKING
FACTOR IKS TO DEAL WITH 30,001) IOSS OF nil'lT. Government factories for pulping fruit are (o be trebled in capacity for the coming season iu Britain. Last vear J .s sl/iit was made by the Fruit Production Department with ton factories, and 10,000 tons of fruit wore put down. Now the work is done by a section of the Ministry of Fond. A few months hence ,U factories ivill be able to deal with 311,000 tons of fruit.
I he principal fruils handled are sour ipple-: and plums. Strawberries, raspberries ami gooseberries lire also pulped to a smaller e\tent, hut I bene fruits can more readily he used in tho jam factories. Jruit is purchased in Hie open market, committees of local growers enoperating Pulp keeps easily until the hoi: weather c-pmes round again, so that | jam-makers can draw upon it steadilv j over a long period. All this prevents . wastage, should there be a. glut, steadies | Ihe employment of labour, and to quote i a trade phrase, "it lengthens the jamboiling life of the fruit/' so that the demand for sugar is conveniently spread over months, instead of being crowded into a feiv weeks.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 230, 17 June 1918, Page 8
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197NATIONAL JAM-MAKING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 230, 17 June 1918, Page 8
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