The Republican journal., 1913-10-30
CORN FACTORIES AND CREAMERlEs
[From an Occasional Correspondent

From an Occasional Correspondent
LIBERTY. Me-. Nov. 27, 1918. An item in
The Journal of last week in relation to the
Liberty Corn Packing Factory. stated that the
output was 2,400 more cans this year than
last. using two bushels less corn. The error
was this: The number of cans should be multi
piled by ten. and read 24.000. This factory. in
common with others throughout the State,
by reason of early frosts for the past two
years. has had to pass through somewhat
trying ordeal; SO much SO that the calamity
shriekers, found in every community in more
or less numbers. have been predicting that the
thing was failure, and II told you so' and
the Just as l expected" have been shouted
loud and long and general defunction of this
and like enterprises throughout the State has
been SO vividly portrayed that the get-rich-
quick and the pessimists have said that they
will plant no more corn.
But there is another and much larger ee-
ment among US that is not so pessimistic and
that is more hopeful of the future. They
realize that there is no better way of building
up the farm than by the planting of sweet
corn. They contend that all the by-products
of the crop; indeed all of the crop except the
kernel itself, goes back to the farm in the
shape of fodder, which gives them more dress
ing and enables them to keep more stock
more cows, more sheep, more hogs, more hens.
Nearly every farm in the region of corn fac
tory has silo in which the farmer puts the
stalks after breaking the corn. He also hauls
the husks back from the factory and puts
them in his sio, and the cobs and screenings,
which he feeds to his hogs and hens. One
man has estimated that what he hauls
home from the factory from two acres of corn
to put into his slo and to feed the pigs
and hens saves him at least SIS. Another
man, who lives near by and keeps large stock,
says that what he picks up from the factory
during the time that it is in operation is
worth to him more than $50. He has team
there nearly all the time gathering it in. A
conservative farmer here says that it is not
the proper thing to carry all your eggs to
crops, but among them be sure and plant corn
for the factory if you wish to keep up the
fertility of the farm. He says that any far
mer who has farm enough to cut from twelve
to twenty tons of hay to be eaten up on the
farm can plant two acres Of sweet corn with
out the aid of phosphate, and the next year
he can plant more. If he increases his home
fertilizer he can increase his stock on the
farm, and if he increases his stock he will
increase his fertilizer. That means more and
better crops. and better crops means more and
bigger checks from the corn factory; more and
bigger checks from the creamery; bigger
checks from the pigs,eggs and poultry and more
of the comforts of life.
=. In conclusion l will say that none of these
ideas are my own. l realize that what l do
not know about farming would make bigger
book than Webster's International Dictionary.
The things that have chronicled are simply
what l have seen and heard by keeping my
eyes and ears open for the past month. But
there is one thing that l do know, which is
that since the establishment of corn factories
and creameries in these localities the farmers
are not only receiving checks but giving
them also. 10. J.