Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-07
STATE HOUSE.
Facts Relating to Names
Corn Packing Industry.
Boston & Maine Petitions for
A New Spur Track.
Growth Of Union Supervision Of
Schools in State.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Coun.
Gil Tuesday, Nov. 40, at $50 A. M.


farm methods. Canning factories offer a
ready market for such commodities as
they preserve and there is demand for
mOre of them.
Maine already stands third among
the states of the Union in value of the
corn packed, being exceeded only by New
York and Illinois, says an article in the
Directory of the Manufacturing Indus
tries Of Maine, recently issued by the
Bureau of Industrial and Labor Sta
tisticS.
An investigation of this industry,
made by this department in 1900 shovel
Is corn canning establishments then in
operation, with a total pack of 22,ooo,oO
ans valued at $l,5l3,314 ~. Returns
made To this department the present
year show that ~ factories We're in OPP
GRAFTON during the packing season.
"Ten years ago the farmers were re-
ceivinG $50 per loo pounds of corn as
cut from the cob The price was later
raised to 500, and the present year con-
tracts have been made ut the rate Of
s225 per 40 pounds.
Fully 10 per cent of our corn pack is
pat mp in the seven counties of Andros-
bee, oxford Penobscot and Somerset
while a few factories located in
Knox PiscatauuiS Waldo and York No
corn canning factories are reported from
the counties Of Aroostook, Hancock, Lin
coin or Washington.
about onc-haf the number of fac
tories put up fruit and vegetables in adj
dtion to corn. while half a dozen others
which We have included in the list omit
corn altogether in their pack.
Experiments, with view of preserv
ing sweet corn in Dramatically sealed
cans we've commenced near Portland,
Maine. about l>l". and in 1877 4 piece OF
corn Was planted for experimental pur-
poses. At first the whole ears We're
cooked and the corn sealed up on the
cob, but this proved too bulky, and Il
fork was devised by which the corn was
torn from the cob. Later a knife was
used by hand to cut off the corn.
From these crude beginnings, one i'm
provcmcnt after another has been made,
until now the work. after the corn comes
from the hmsl<"rs. is nearly all done by
machinery. and to such perfection has
this been brought that some of the ma
chimes seem almost t" possess human III
teligcncc.
This industry gives employment &
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Nearly onc-thrd are females.
"In 1889. Il little over ll,"o acres wee
planted t. sweet corn in the STATE" ana
the increased number of cann"lir+
would indicate material increase in th'
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Nv. ,,,. ,r,..n, :, list Of 10l cannine
,,.,,,.i, IN Maine ,s indicated hv on
ro,,,n ,h., ,.,.l of Q, Of which i. made
-, i,l,,. uhnIv a., PARTIALLY nf sweet
,,
"In,nb.,o, and Morrill, Co.-Factolic-
-, >,n,,n Ninot I,i.ieton. Harrison
rn,,l,ud ,ra,min.,on :.tron-. Dcnmall
ui>io,d South prs. West Paris and
ro.r;1.o.ock
..po,,l,nd po,l,ia., &C.. i'..,t nics ut Al
bion, Oakland. Wintn.'l, .,koid, can
ton, RumtuIu. nrM,"., ~ "l"'t' ron
cI"tt. Arson, rail"to, So .'.vI'" ''''-
ton, i,umiord, i''>'''' -.' ''"r'' F"A-
croft, -An9u", '''r'''.''' ''.'""''E''''
Brooks and Unity
'fcrnal". '-'"i'" ~" II IF 60 a.
tories At Lisbon. / oiah", I"}'''' 'N'"'" ~
Woodstock ana ,otil>i'
"fNitch"ll-t lranriain Co. i '''"'''9 81
Greene. rortlaHd. New sharon an" I''-
ram.
III l.. Eurhan.-Factorlcs Al bo'H'il''
Gray Naples, Portland ana l.HH ihoi'"'
# II. Webb co.-Factoll'S AT i'e'"N'
Rtadtivld, Bethel and Norway.
"Ainot Packing Co.-Factnii"s at Me-
chani,. Falls Minot and Hartford.
..Moumouth Canning Co.-FIctoiles at
Gardiner, Monmouth and Union.
"E : pingley 4 Co.-Factories at
Farmiuoton Falls and West Pennington
..rho,nai,,. 4 uix.-Factories at Cam
den, Koc<land and Union
Omitted packers.-ractorie at New
Gloucester and Turner.
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Neu. p,,t,opd
,,,.t,,ias at
Fryebm2 and Saint Adams.