Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-29
MILLION CANS OF CORN.

Corn Week in Western Maine il So
cini and Industrial Festival.
The best sweet corn in the United
States is grown i'll the three northern
states of New England. where the rails
ing and gathering of it has become an i'm
portant industry. The corn-shop at Cen
ter Lowell is one of sixteen operated in
Maine and has its headquarters at
Brunswick. This factory, with its COM
panion shop at North Fryeburg. is held
responsible for about 100000 cans an
nually
The interest of corn week to a summer
visitor lies in the unique opportunity it
gives OF seeing practically the whole
countryside at work together. ON bust
est days there are easily 100 people en-
gagged IN the various processes of can
nng. Everybody i'll the neighborhood
! turns out to take his share in Il labor
which is profitable, if short. The actual
work of canning the corn is all done
within Il fortnight.
One especially feels DIS air of socia-
| hlllty among the groups of n-huskers.
they seem to have Il holiday task Work
ing under open sheds in groups of about
twenty each. they gossip and exchange
"Jollles' A the while they are dcftly
stripping the huSkS from the ears.
They have to keep busy to make any
( thing at this part of the process. The
! huskerS are all paid mt the rate of 1
cents Il hushel. This means a very small
! day $ wage to the average worker. One
! who can do forty bushels a day is con
/ cred very speedy. \ great many chill
/ dren aud elderly people are engage, at
this; the ablc-bodied men and young
women are generally drafted into the
/ factory proper
There one finds less of the picnic rs
! peCt, though the utmost freedom still nrr
Fals. The corn goes through an inter
e>tlng process Of cutting. straining and
| mixing with milk. Finally il pourS oul
of a narrow pipe ut the bottom of n b;s
! cylinder and falls into the cans which
are one ny one pushed up to it, The cans
20 10 the soldererS and are then passed
ON 70 an inspector, who weeds ont fol
further soldering those that are deter
i've ana sends the perfect cans into tn,
boiler room to be cooked. There they mr.,
helu Tor seventy minutes i'll steam boil
tIS uhtil with a great explosion of steam
th"N are drawn out into the omen mir +,
ne played upon with streams of cold wa
, yer. The rest of the process is one OF
lanellhg, packing and storing.
y great innovation this wear is Tho can
hIng of SuccotaSh. This is the first i'm,
corn and beans have been put up tocethc,
~ the Lowell shop, The company is mai,
ing an effort to can all its surcotosl
from green beans and not. as is generall,
done from the dried beans raised i;
lt"iA. None OF the farmers in this i'm
mediate ncighborhood have as yct raise,
the Lima bean, but they are watchjn,
with great interest the experiments mo5,
IN Conway. y. H.. whence the ronsjgr
ment Of bean pods for this seasons Ms,
/ came.
good sample of Yankee ingenuity wa.
seen when the first load of Lima bean
arrived az the Lowell shop Nobody ha,
ever handled them before. and cverybod,
supposed that they would have TO b,
, Sheiled by hand. The foreman Of m,
husklng department. however. thourb
otherwiSe. lie sent home for his WIFE
? clothes wringer and discovered in II
machine perfectly adapted to shellin,
? means Within half an hour three o,nc
, wrlngers were brought into use and henn
enough for 10000 cans OF succotash WEI
sheiled IN a single day.--Boston Tran