The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-27
CORN FOR CANNING
Opportunity for Extensive Industry in
Vermont.

Vermont.
AS result of our soil and climat
ic conditions it is conceded that the
sweet corn produced in Vernon
equals any produced outside of New
England, Maine and Jew Hampshire
being the only states which can com
pete on equal terms with the Green
Mountain state in the production OF
this toothsome luxury. This is the
| testimony of horticulturists as well
as of those who have made a spec.
ialty of canning corn for the mar.
ket
The natural question is, "Why
do not the farmers of Vermont pro,
| fit more from the growing OF corn
| for the purpose of canning" The
answer is that those who try to es,
tablish corn canning establishments
have found it difficult to arouse our
| farmers TO a point where they will
agree to plant sufficient acreage
of sweet corn to warrant the expen
diture of the money necessary to
erect a canning factory.
This explains why Vermont is i'm.
| porting from otner states much OF
the canned corn used on our tables
whereas our own farmers should be
| receiving the income from the produc
tiOn of what we use and also from a
large quantity sold to other states.
| Mr.. Maxwell Evarts, president OF
the Vermont state fair, confirms all
that we have said regarding the possit
ilities OF canning sweet corn in Yer
mont, and ne kindly consented to give
a representative of the Free Press
the results of his own experience for
the benefit of the agricultural inter
ests of our state. He realizes $40 an
acre from the sale of sweet corn in
the ear to the canning factory OF Bax
ter e. Bros, in Windsor, planting an
nually about 40 acres. He has left
the cornstalks, which with the small
and imperfect ears are in excellent
state for the silo. and the product is
about four tons to the acre. He there
fore realizes considerably more thar
$50 to the acre from his sweet corr
crop.
Mrs. Evarts' experience is tha
stock will eat this sweet corn fodder
more readily than ordinarily grow
for feeding purposes, and even where
it is cured and fed loose, cattle anC
horses leave very little of it. HI
therefore concludes that it is a yer!
profitable crop, from whatever stand
point the question may be considered
MIR. Evarts believes that every far
mer in me vicinity of a canning es
adjustment can realize from $50 t
40 per acre from sweet corn and HI
is enthusiastic over the proposition
that every town of considerable sizl
should have its canning establishment
just as much as it has its creamery
In some towns co-ope ration1T1
In some towns a cooperative plaI
Of starting a corn canning factor.
would be the best while in others h
believes the best results would be sc
cured by calling a conference of far
mers and inviting Baxter & Bro, o
some other firm TO establish one. HI
finds that Gamers are willing to es
1tablish where they can secure pledges
to furnish at least 400 acres of swee
corn. and there are not many towns
in Vermont where this can not b.
done, to say nothing of other products
that could be canned.
Get together, farmers of Vernon
towns, and see If you can not secure
a canning industry, for your town. /
there is any question that you would
like to have answered in this connec
ton, write Prof J. l.. Hills of the I'm.
versity of Vermont and State Agri
cultural college who announces MS
willingness to cooperate in every
possible way in the project to pro
mote the growth of this industry in
Vermont-Burlingto Free Press.