The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-03-15
BOOM CANNINGSEASON
PREDICTED in TALBOT
Previous Years Packs Sufficiently
Sold Out To Warrant Running
Houses, 1t Is Said. Easton Full o1
Optimism.

Easton, Md, March 13.-Whlls
| yet the infant tomato vines are IL
the nurseries packers of Talbot coun.
ty are preparing to pack the season
| crop. Barring an act of Providence
| there will be more tamatoes put into
! cans this season than ever before
! known.
/ The surplus Of the Government
canned goods has been cut down anu
| the markets need gooGs. This is es-
pecially true of tomatoes, and now
the farmers and Gamers have prac-
tically agreed upon a price, the stage
is all set and awaits only the ripen-
ing sunshine to start the 13, sou
acres of vegetables toward the big
packing house.
Canneries Closed
Last season there was not an es-
tablishmcnt in operation. and the
amount of tomatoes raised was next
to nothing. Today all is changed.
The people, bankers, merchants and
farmers are full of optimism and
freely predict a pack Of tomatoes as
we'll as corn, such as never has been
known.
In a few months the whole section
for 40 miles from Easton will be a
huge kitchen, with many ranges,
some 33 of them, in the different
packing houses.
When the peas ripen in June the
fiat land will team with thousands OF
foreigners, their odors and their
children; stacks after two years rust
0lYn an6 around ana
about this Kitchen" will swarm the
1000 or 5000 laborers of both sexes
necessary to preserve the food. Or
dinarily 10000 cases of peas are
harvested Then with the helpers
still coming, the corn will be brought.
in, put away in cam. The average
has been 100000 cases.
All this is preliminary to the com
ing of the tomato. When the crop
is ready it must not be touched BY
frost, and so the feverish haste to-
pack the whole yield will drive thel
operators to all sorts of hours. and
the amount expended for labor will
run beyond $25O,000 for pecking.
To Plant One-Tenth Or Land
One-tenth of all the farm land
will be used in the production of to-
matoes and other vegetables for the
packers. When the harvest is past
the farmer will have placed to his
credit in the banks of Easton more
than OO,O00-three times as
much as he will receive for his
wheat.
The figures given for the average
tomato pack is 100000 cases and the
figure will be passed this year, II the
prediction of Senator John McDanieli
the president of the Easton Commits
sion Company, is verified.
The largest packer in the county
is the Talbot Packing and Preserv-
ing Company. Ii has planned to can
every vegetable brought to it. It's
kitchen" is model of sanitary
cleanliness. No hand ever touches
pea, unless it falls off the diners
fork.
Corn is taken from the cob by an
ingenious apparatus, but who can
conceive a boiled tomato being pick
ed up and skinned by machine? Yet
further on in the process the old
method of sealing a can with acids
and solder is discarded and machin-
cry hermetically seals the can with
out either solder or acid.
Corn Next To Tomatoes
Next in Importance to the tomato
is the corn. 1t is within 40 per cent
of the amount OF the tomato crop.
It's value is enhanced because it fol-
lows along in the same field with the
peas, as do the lima beans, of which
only 5000 cases are garnered year
ly. The ensilage from all the d1f-
ferent crops is left upon the
ground and seven acres of harvest
ed field will fatten a steer and then
number of hogs.
The Talbot Packing and PreserV-
ing Company is encouraging the pro-
duction of many edibles. They own
$4,000 of the $4,000 apple trees in
Talbot county, and last year har-
vested 5000 barrels which netted
them Sc to $7.5U per barrel.
: Offered AS Illustration
They offer this as an illustration
to the farmer. Yet the tomato is
still the mainstay in the canning in
dustry and will SO remain. The
banks of Easton are assured that the
farmer will do his part in the feed
ing of the people and the officers of
these institutions all see only
bright days ahead. This is the opin-
ion of F. G. Wrightson, dean Of the
bankers, as we'll as the Mayor of Eas-
ton, and is shared by Senator Nc
Daniels, General Seth, Messrs. She
han and Riddle and many others.
w. Nee.