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CANNING SEASONFULL BLAST? I;Crop Not Up To Expecta-jlions: Drought Hit jFarmers Hard. \jtue canning season has opened and j i is about r* begin in earnest according | -to reports from the three factories irxj • this city today. One of the factories I {worked for 10 hours Tuesday and an- ( 1 other worked 12 hours yesterday. Tnes-'j 'day and yesterday were the first fail! : days for either factory. The, third j ; factory merely reported that as yer no • •extra titae had been made. AO three!f factories report the com crop through-. .out rlie county a disappointmenr. The {early com crop yielded slightly more I than one-fourth of what was expect-jed. This was due to the fact zbi the ! drought wa-s too prolonged and .the {rainy weather came too late to great-1riy benefit the early-planting. The late}‘planting is also believed to nave been}• srentiv daznaaed hr the Tr • greatly damaged by the drought. It is; jbelievt-d. however, that the yield of the J jiaie com will.be about SO per cent, of { ;normal in proportion to the acreage} tplanted. A smaller acreage than usual] fwas planted by the farmers this year j .’according to the canners. jI If the yield of late com comes up to j |the expectations each canning factory? ; expects to work 20 and IS hours a day.! t AH three factories are expected to have | j night work a little later on ia the sea.-;i _ ** 2Ison* iTo Work Long Bays. !Keporfir^rom some of the factories 1 | in the county are to the effect“that ] they are already working extra tlmeJ The factory at Woodsboro has commenced work as has also the plant: of | the Uuckeystowu Packing Company bat neither lias leen working overtime as yet according to reports recened \ here. Ail factories in Frederick cotm- j ty have beer, working some except the \ Mnooeacy Valley Canning Company's lt;plant at Walkersvillc. ~ IOne of the canuers stated today that | according to Information he had there [ are IT canning factories in' Western Maryland which are not working this season. The reasons given are the small acreage planted by the farmer land the failure Of the early crop of!j sweet com.
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The Frederick News Post
Frederick, Maryland, US
Thu, Aug 18, 1921
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Kenneth K.
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