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IHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24 
AN OHIO CANNING FACTORY. 
As the cannery subject is under discus¬ 
sion, a few items from Ohio may interest 
your readers. Our cannery is owned by 
private parties, and tomatoes and corn 
only are canned. Tomatoes are to be 
“ sound and ripe, with no goods brought 
on Saturday, except by permission of 
proprietors.” Corn is brought with the 
shucks on and weighed, and not reduced 
to net com. Both corn and tomatoes are 
bought by the ton of 2,000 pounds at $7 
per ton ; we find the tomatoes much the 
best paying crop, but not so “ easy ” to 
get off our hands. The greatest trouble 
is to get the plants and get them out early 
enough to escape Jack Frost in the fall. 
The yields per acre vary from a mere 
nothing to $20 or $2.5 for corn, or $70 or 
$80 for tomatoes. The canneries pay cash 
on September 1 and November 1 for 
goods brought them, allowing their cus¬ 
tomers goods for their own use at 85 
cents per dozen. For tomatoes, we are 
learning to select early locations with 
good drainage ; also that stable manure 
makes a late crop, with much loss from 
rot. The varieties are Livingston and 
the New Stone, the latter being the 
leader in popularity. We plant Stowell’s 
Evergreen corn except for replants; 
much trouble is experienced in getting a 
full stand. Here, where we leave thou¬ 
sands of acres of corn fodder to waste in 
the fields—a wasteful practice—we can¬ 
not work ourselves up to the doctrine 
that the fodder of sweet corn is so very 
much better than any other, or that it is 
worth as much acre for acre as Timothy 
for hay. buckeyk. 
New Paris. 
SWEET CORN GROWING IN MAINE. 
I have read with much interest the 
articles on growing sweet corn. As 
there seems to be much difference of 
opinion as to the profits of this business, 
I will try to give your readers some idea 
of the manner in which the crop is 
raised in this State, which is acknowl¬ 
edged to produce the finest quality of 
this article. We have, within a radius 
of 10 miles, eight factories, packing from 
300 000 to 500,000 cans each year. The 
factory at this place packed about 400,000 
cans last year, the cans holding 26 
ounces each. They paid the farmers 
two cents per pound for the corn after 
it was cut from the cob. Mr. Baker, on 
page 55 of Tee R. N.-Y., says that some 
of the farmers of whom he speaks got as 
high as $30 per acre, which would be 
considered a very small amount here. 
Some of our best corn raisers realize as 
high as $80 per acre, and $40 would be 
only a common yield. Last year from 
1% acre dressed with a liberal coat of 
barnyard manure, harrowed in, and 350 
pounds of Bradley’s superphosphate in 
the hill, I received a trifle over $80. The 
com was planted quite late with a com¬ 
mon corn planter, and the hoeing was 
done with Breed’s weeder, which was 
used two or three times each week until 
the corn was too large to go under the 
crossbar. There was a very heavy crop 
of fodder which was cut as soon as the 
corn was picked, and put into the silo 
after being cut into three-fourth-inch 
lengths. This makes the very best of 
fodder for milch cows, and I consider 
that it is worth as much as good Tim¬ 
othy hay—acre for acre—as it will pro¬ 
duce more milk. The money received 
from the corn on the acre will buy, 
at the present writing, 150 bushels of 
shelled corn at the station here. This, 
with the valuable fodder, I think makes 
it a profitable crop to raise. The corn is 
paid for as soon as delivered at the fac¬ 
tory. The packers will also furnish, on 
credit, to those who wish, the fertilizer 
"and seed, the price being deducted from 
the bill. The husks and cobs are hauled 
away by the farmers and fed to cows 
and hogs, and are a great help at this 
time of the year when the feed in the 
pastures is short. The past season was 
very dry and the corn crop was not 
nearly so good as common. 
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