Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-13
CORN FOR CANNING.
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farmers who supplied the canning COM
SpaIy OF this city with corn during the
past summer that no crop will be grown
hereafter for the works from seed corn
raised in this part OF the country. They
attribute the rapid hardening OF the
crop during the month of August tothe
warm weather that prevailed for that
period.
1t would seem in CHS western coun-
try poor quality of corn that shoots
UP in thin stalks and takes nearly all
the year to mature, but that is the sort
of corn grown on the sand-hills of many
of the eastern states, and 1t is Just this
kind of corn that is canned by the fac
tories of the land. While the quality Of
the corn is all right for canning pur-
poses. 1t would never do for stock feed
ing except in the way OF fodder This
eastern corn is said to make superior
feed for dairy stock but in this state 1t
would be caught by the late frosts IL
allowed to grow, and there would be no
advantage to the farmer here to grow
IT except for the purposes Of canning at
the proper season.
All the farmers are satisfied from the
past month that 1t will never do again
for them to raise corn for the canning
works from seed grown here. 1t makes
good corn for canning while IL lasts bur
the rich soil and favorable climate for a
luxuriant growth, ripens most OF the
crop too rapidly, and much OF 1t must
be withheld by the farmer for stock.
feeding. 4
put up by the canning company here
this season. an amount fully equal to
that canned last year. but not near the
amount that would have been canned
had not much OF the crop matured too
contracted for by the company, about
handled and a large part Of II was8cut
up and will be ussd for fodder for cattls
and horses this winter.
1t il stated that the total number OF
growers with whom the canning COM
pany made contracts was about 100,
and many OF these are small farmers
nea q the city, who furnished six OF
eight acres, and during the canning sea
son these same farmers We're able to
make two or tire trips TO their places
fmer, several miles farther out. could no,
/ make more than one trip q day with two
teams The result was that more tons
OF corn would be brought into the fac
tory some days than 1t could find room
for or handle, and some OF the farmers
from distance who arrived at the
works at s o'clock in the morning, were
compelled to wait all day and then And
when evening came that they had to
haul their loads back home again.
It has been an opinion, emphasized
by each succeeding year. with some Of
1.-THE large fermera,4 that most d thu
small growers will have to ratirs from
the business Of raising corn for the fac
tory, for they have little or no stoak Il
fesd, and in ouch years az, ttis. he corr
that the factory will not To- Ike can MOI
be ussd b,' them IL they do keep IT,
These farmers believe tflatsif the con-
tracts are made With them, say about
Issventy-fve OF them, they Will be able
ITO get the corn 20 the factory at more
Irregular hours and there will not be the
confuSson and trouble TO handle the
great quantities that was experienced
itbiD nv. They hold that there
would ~ more syU TEN 70 that part oi