Il6 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



Food Factories: As well as turning our attention to bakeries, 

 slaughter houses and bottling establishments, a special endeavor 

 has been made during the past year to make our inspection of 

 food factories as complete as possible — with particular reference 

 to the three principal canning industries of our state, namely : 

 Corn factories, blueberry factories and sardine factories. The 

 following tabulations will show the unique importance of the 

 sardine industry in Maine as compared with the rest of the 

 United States ; they also compare the blueberry pack in Maine 

 with that of the rest of the country, and define the position the 

 state occupies in the clam canning and corn canning industries : 

 Total number of cases of sardines packed in the 



United States in 1914 5,012,199 



Total number of cases of sardines packed in the 



State of Maine in 1914 4,634,424 



Total number of cases of blueberries packed in the 



United States in 1914 151,636 



Total number of cases of blueberries packed in the 



State of Maine in 1914 116,001 



Total number of cases of clams packed in the United 



States in 1914 185,186 



Total number of cases of clams packed in the State 



of Maine in 1914 94,813 



Total number of cases of clam chowder packed in the 



United States in 1914 102,838 



Total number of cases of clam chowder packed in the 



State of Maine in 1914 86,771 



While not leading in the production and packing of corn, it is 

 unnecessary to state that the quality of the Maine product makes 

 up for the inability to show championship figures for produc- 

 tion ; we are, however, nearly at the top of the list, with a pack 

 of 1,101,333 cases. 



Corn Canning Factories: With the aid of an automobile — 

 the property of the Department of Agriculture — and through the 

 fortunate cooperation of the federal inspector, detailed by the 

 Bureau of Chemistry to accompany the state inspector, it was 

 possible to make a more complete inspection of the corn canning 

 factories of the State of Maine than ever before. In other 

 years it has been particularly arduous to reach many of these 



