Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-16
WESTERN GROCER MILLS PRE-.
PAREs FOR GREATLY IN.
CREASED OUTPUT.
ESTIMATED PACK WILL
TOTAL 100000 CASES
Preliminary Pack of tomatoes Begun
THIS Week - Canning Department
Will Start Packing Corn Next Week
Sweet Corn and Tomato Crop Said
to Be Gocd-Other Packs.

| Starting the fore part or middle Of
next week the canning department OF
the Western Grocer Mills will begir
putting into tin what is estimated will
be the largest pack of products ever
canned BY the company. The packing
operations to be begun next week will
| continue thru the fall ana winter and
we'll into the spring. The estimated
pack is placed at 100000 cases or TO-
100000 cans, of products grown on
$500 acres near this city.
With the opening of the canning sea =
son the company will require a large
amount of labor for period ofiseveral
weeks and some of it for several
months. Steps are being taken now
| 10 recruit this force.
Begun Packing Tomatoes.
The company began Tuesday to can
tomatoes in limited way, but the
packing season will not be fairly
opened until next week when the sweet
corn begins to come in.
The prospects for good yield Of
corn are excellent, the recent rains
having helped the fields greatly. The
pack of corn is estimated at $4,000
cases, taking the yield from about 1000
acres. OF this acreage the company
is growing 500 while 1900 is being
grown by contract.
The tomato pack is placed at 10000
cases. and it will be carried on stimuli
taneously with the corn pack. Two
hundred twenty five acres of tomatoes
are being grown for this pack, most of
it by contract. While the pack of to-
matoes is being put up the company
will pack about 5000 cases of catsup
In spite of the hot dry weather the
yield of tomatoes promises to be very
large.
Large Pumpkin Pack.
BY the time the corn, tomatoes and
catsup pack ia ended, the company.
equipment will be turned to packing
pumpkin. Eight hundred acres were
planted to pumpkins this year and it is
expected that this acreage will yield a
pack of 10000 cases.
Following the pumpkin pack will be
the pack Of sauer kraut. The COM
pany has growing fifty acres Of cab
bage that will furnish an estimated
pack of $1,000 cases af sauer kraut.
Hominy Becomes Big Pack
The pack of hominy corn which was
formerly one of the small products Of
the canning department has become
one of the largest. The pack of this
product this year will exceed all pre-
vious years. 1t is estimated at $1,000
cases, of milk hominy and 100 :ases
of lya hominy. The company row
ing under contract 700 acres 3: lJminy
corn for this pack which 81 begin
about Nov /.
Following 1t during the winter a
pack of 10000 cases of pork and beanA
will be canned in addition to 15,0Ov
cases of kidney beans and about 5000
cases Of lima beans.
Output Is Increased.
Last season the pack amounted to
about 300, 900 cases, but with pack OF
42O, 900 cases this season the increase
will be more than so per cent.
An idea of the quantity Of these pro-
ducts that will be packed in tin during
the next six or more months can be
gathered from the fact that to trans.
port it all would require a train Of
freight cars three miles long If all the
cans were put on a shelf side by side
! they would extend a distance of SOC
miles.