Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-03

That is, the farmer gets about thirty cents of the consumers dollar for his milk, and about eighty cents of that same dollar for his butter.
 Some difference, you'll observe. The manufacture of milk into butter raises the farmers percentage of intake enor- mously. Of course, this is not saying that it raises his profit equally. That is quite another question and dependent on several other factors. such as the cost of butter-making. the uses availa- ble for waste sl1im-milk. etc. My pres- ent point is simply that the consumer usually wants a completely manufac- tured product and is willing to pay roundly for it, while he won't pay much of anything for raw materials.
 Now. butter isn't by any means the only manufactured product which the farmer could turn out. We have al- ready talked, once or twice, about the simply tremendous consumption of can ned yegeta bles, nowadays. There act ually seems to be no limit to the quau- tity which the market will absorb These vegetables are, necessarily, raised by farmers. Hitherto, it has been the practice of sweet corn and pea and bean growers to sell their crops to can ming factories. They have had to take such prices for them as the cannes chose to pay. Naturally. these prices were figured so as to take care of the canners' own profits and pay his help high wages The farmer producer took what was left-if anything was left and thanked God if it amounted to enough to buy axle-Grease.
 Can you give me any good and sufi- cient reason why the farmer shouldn'- [ H-J.z 1 its which now go to the factory canners by manufacturing his own raw vegeta- bles into canned goods just as he man ! ufactures milk into butter?
 | Tt can't be done" you say. Ani you turn me down with a sneer
 l I patiently but firmly decline to stay turned down. To your cant be-dona'' l I retort with "It Shas been done; it is
 being done; it CAN be done" So there! as Susan Jane says.
 The other day I had opportunity to l gather few facts from a working ! farmer friend, whom circumstances { have conspired to bully into this line i He has been for some years working into the canning field. He began, as i beginners always should, modest!y and 1 eXperimentally. He gathered all the 1 information and instructions he could 1 | tion bulletins. This, it may; be said
 rarenthetically, is ample for supplyin! all the theory and all the fornulae nee | essary. And it is free for the asking Then he set out to learn and perfect
 himself in the technique of the actual | operation, acquire the needful appara-
 tus. etc. This: latter part he found nei- sher difficult nor expensive.
 ! He began by passing out a few cans
 to the customers whom hes was supply
 ing with dairy and farm products. As
 he put up only absolutely fresh and
 perfectly sound vegetables, it was not | long before others heard of them and began to call for them. They were mol
 only willing but eager to pay him the
 same prices they had been paying fn,
 factory-canned goods. They mig'J soon discovered that his were ;ht cheaper in the end-better in quality
 finer in flavor, solder in pack; more to matoes and less water, for one thing Beginning with only a few dozen trla
 cans, he is now putting them up by thu
 thousand. Beginning with a few GUS
 toIhers on his regular delivery route, h,
 Is fnow receiving calls for them, by tn:
 case, from half-a-dozen states.
 Does 1t pay? Let us consider tn
 case of sweet-corn, as an illustration The sesaon for this is short. Moreover
 1t must be picked and marketed on tn
 jump. However good fresh sweet corr
 may be on the cob. everybody know
 that stale sweet corn is. Ean exceeding!,
 unsatisfactory proposition. And it's av