Preserves Jam
In 1894 Daniel bought land at Monbulk in the Dandenong Ranges. There,
from 1896, he started to grow berry fruit while his four sons attended
the local state school. Using his natural talents as an engineer, he
first invented a 'devil' to assist in stump-pulling on the family block
and later installed an intricate irrigation system for his plants.
Transport of the delicate fruit was difficult on the rough hill-tracks.
In 1897 Camm joined other locals to form the Monbulk Co-operative
Fruitgrowers' Association and to establish a jam factory near the
railway station at Upper Ferntree Gully, then the nearest terminus of
Melbourne's suburban railway network. The factory was destroyed by fire
in 1909.
With the assistance of his three eldest sons, Camm improved a pulping
technique which enabled fruit to be moved more cheaply to the city for
processing into jam. Encouraged by this success, in 1909 the family
erected a small pulping factory on their property. Increased business,
based on locally-grown fruit, required a new and larger plant next year.
A bumper crop of local plums in 1913 almost spelt disaster for local
growers when prices fell. Daniel, however, bought the entire crop and
began to manufacture jam.
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