REPORT OF STATE DAIRY COMMISSIONER 437 



While the volume of the sweet corn pack has reached the limit 

 under existing freight rates, at least for the time being, there seems 

 to be room for increased production of most of the other products. 

 The corn canning industry is suffering as the result of heavy over- 

 production in 1920, when the Iowa corn pack reached the total of 

 3,246,000 cases or 77,904,000 cans. This pack was produced at peak 

 prices, for corn, cans, cases, labor and all other items going into 

 cost of production, and had to be marketed on the falling market 

 for food products which characterized the year 1921. The 1921 

 pack was very light, but there has been a partial recovery this year. 

 The figures for production and market value for this year are, how- 

 ever, not yet back to normal. 



Iowa normally packs one-sixth of the total sweet corn of the coun- 

 try. With the exception of the years 1913, 1915, 1917, and 1921, 

 Iowa has held first place in production ; the Illinois packs for each of 

 these years slightly exceeds the Iowa packs. 



This year there were 42 plants operated for canning corn ; 11 for 

 tomatoes ; 6 for pumpkin, and 4 for other products. 



The 1922 corn pack was 1,943,000 cases. The tomato pack was 

 163,819 cases. 



The value of the corn pack at prevailing retail prices is $6,000,000. 



The value of the pack of canned tomatoes exclusive of pulp and 

 catsup on the above basis is $607,676.00; the pulp and catsup pack- 

 will approximate $1,252,256.00 in value. 



The annual expenditure for canning labor will exceed $1,000,000. 



Acreages in Evergreen corn under contracts with canneries for the 



past four years, together with approximate average price per ton 



paid: 



Average price 

 Year Acres Per ton 



1919 47,811 $16.00 



1920 47,511 14.00 



1921 .14,398 9.00 



1922 29,710 7.00 



The average price per ton paid in 1914 was $7.00; in 1915, $8.00; 

 in 1916, $8.00; in 1917, $12.00; in 1918, $14.00. 



Prices paid at various plants will vary from these prices by al- 

 lowances for haul, unloading, etc. 



IOWA-NEBRASKA CANNERS ASSOCIATION 

 The Iowa Canners Association last year adopted a new constitu- 

 tion and by-laws and changed its name to Iowa-Nebraska Canners 

 Association to include the four active Nebraska canneries. Eighty- 



