Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-03

craze price to the farmer, sold by the load, runs somewhere about $s hun dred. Good, sizable, well-hlled ears they must be, at that.
 Suppose we put this corn into cans instead of selling it on the ear. To be- gin with the hundred dozen ears VIII make sixty No. 2 cans. In picking that hundred dozen marketable ears, there will be rejected considerable number of ''nubbins' ''-ears covered with just as big and sweet kernels as any. but too short for marketing. Experience shows that the "nubbins' left from every hun dred dozen selected ears will average about fifteen more cans. That is, the same picking which would give you hundred dozen marketable ears, will give you the material for about seven ty-five No. ? cans.
 The total cost of cans, canning labor. etc., for these seventy-fve cans will run about S7. Add to this the $S which the hundred would average if sold by tha load in the husk, and you get $15, as the cost of seventy-five cans, which reAdly sell at $3.40 a dozen, or $21.5S, f6r the bunch. Here is a first and clear gain of $6.5S in money for the corn. But that isn't all.
 In selling the corn unhusked you sell also the husks and the soft, succulent cobs, both of which are fine GOV aEd hog feed. Their money value as forage any experienced farmer can estimate for himself. It isn't anything enor- nous. but it's worth saving-better worth saving than many other things we all work hard to rescue.
 Furthermore, by putting the corn Into cans we have changed the crop from -l,o o1A afa6, h% marketed the day it is picked at any price attainable in the rush, to prac- tically imperishable product, which can be marketed at will and even held for months if selling conditions make such holding advisable.
 Tomatoes, for another example. The average price runs somewhere about fifty cents 8 bushel, raw. In the large cans they fetch the farmer $3.25 a dozen, and a busheI will make a dozen cans. The cost for cans and labor is a little greater than in the case Of corn. but not much.
 Not only does this particular farmer can corn and tomatoes, but also beets. string beans. succotash, Hubbard squash, pumpkin, Swiss cflard, spinach and other vegetables. He gets fair wages for his labor In canning them and also retains in his own possession the profit which otherwise would be taken by the factory canner.
 His customers are satisfied for they get fresh, sweet, clean goods in an hon 1 est pack for the same price they would be compelled to pay for factory canned stuff of markedly inferior quality. Now. as "The Man Who Talks" once said in kindly answer to some critic: This column Is not for all, but for 1 those to whom it appeals" I do aot want to be understood as saying tha; | every farmer should at once stop selling
 green vegetables and go to canning | them. Some of us are short and some are tall; some are fat and some are | skinny; some hay a knack for manag. l ing cattle and some for growing pota. l toes. What is play to one man may bt l drudgery to another. What Is as easy
 as rolling off a log to one may be
 blankly impossible to his neighbol
 next door.
 But we all of us have to look every way for the chance to make a dollar
 We can't be too "stand-ofish" when thu 1 chance comes our way. We can't af ! ford to throw a good thing over oul shoulders and leave it lying on ht ground. The friend to whose kindnes:
 I owe the facts I have thus far tersel! 1 indicated is a very clear-headed, ver1
 quck-thinking, foresighted and efficien
 farmer He is willing "to try anything
 once." as the saying goes. In this can ming matter he has blazed 8 compara 1 lively new trail. There may be sorlt 1 who can't follow it. That's all right 1 There must be others who can.
 If a few such shall be interested, f
 may lead them to very desirable in crease in their none too large incomes
 Full information and detailed instruc tions regarding the necessary appara | tus, methods etc, can be had, free
 think, in the bulletins of the nationa
 department of agriculture. and thos
 put out by various state experimen
 stations.
 But, of course it is practice whicl
 makes perfect.
 l TRE FAPNYEP