Look out jolly Green Giant, there's a new Vermont business with
their eyes on the ears. It's a tasty story!

Work was starting in a new plant in Randolph on this day in 1906.

The Palmer Packing Company had just opened their packing plant right beside the railroad. It was three stories high, and they had been testing and tweaking machinery for the past several days.

Palmer was prepared to process, can and ship corn. The corn would be removed from the ears on the third floor, travel through the silker to remove the silk on the second floor, and pass through the cooker, wiper and cooling tanks on the first floor.

Local newspapers reported the corn cannery as one of the largest and best equipped in the country.

Image courtesy of the Vermont Historical Society and inset is a Vermont Book Of Days photo.

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