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new local buyers, but from buyers far outside the district where the fruit was 

 produced. 



Buyers were so eager to secure large quantities of loganberries that they were 

 willing to take them from the growers in tbeir own fields and at prices wliich, in 

 many cases, especially in 1919. made tlie crop worth more than the total value 

 per acre which the owner had in his most optimistic mood ever expected to be 

 able to realize for his land. 



It is believed that this demand is upon a solid basis, one which will continue 

 to increase, keeping pace with increased production, and that it will continue to 

 absorb all of this wouderful fruit that may be grown in the Northwest. 



Thousands of acres will Iie planted during the spring of 1920. and the fruit 

 from every acre of loganberries thus planted can be contracted before the logan- 

 berry tips are put into the ground. for a period running from five to ten years 

 from date of the first crop, if the grower wishes to play a perfectly safe game. 



The most ideal condition for the best Interest of the growers, Community and 

 manufacturers would be several thousand families owning. planting and culti- 

 vating their own small tracts, just large enough to be handled and harvested 

 within the family, thus conserving to the family all of the expense which would 

 otherwise go into cultivatiou and harvesting of the fruit. It need not be pointed 

 out that such a condition would mean a lot of extra money to a large number of 

 families throughout the State, which would, in turn, mean prosperity to the 

 communities where they reside. 



Other Fruits Demanded 



With the demand for loganberries, has also come the long-delayed demand for 

 other small fruits, which cannot be produced anywhere eise in the wide world 

 better than in the Northwest. It has been learned through experience that with 

 the fruit juice business, the jam and jelly business works to pei'fection, and inter- 

 locks the one with the other to the very great advantage of the manufacturer of 

 fruit Juices. Thus one successful industry brings with it other Industries, and we 

 are all agreed that the Northwest needs nothing more than Industries and their 

 accompanying pay rolls. 



Could there be a more solid basis for the continued financial prosperity and 

 upbuilding of the Willamette Valley and other Valleys of the Northwest than vast 

 acres planted to small fruits yielding several tons per acre annually, for which 

 there is a steady and profitable market? That such a market can be created has 

 already been demonstrated. Such a condition means steady distribution of money 

 for employment during the cultivation period ; it means pleasant and profitable 

 employment for many thousands of women and children during the harvesting 

 period; and continvious all-the-year-a round pay rolls in the factories, where the 

 finished product is completed as it should be in our own towns and eitles, located 

 side by side with the lands and farms where the raw material is produced. In 

 addition to this, the advertising and the distrilnition of these finished producta 

 throughout the wide world spreads Oregon's name wherever the products are 

 sold and consumed. 



It need hardly be said that the present prosperity, which is quite general 

 throughout the Willamette Valley, is due in no small measure to its fruit Indus- 

 tries, among which the loganberry has taken front rank, and when the loganberry 

 vineyards in the central Willamette Valley shall have been increased by 20 or 30 

 times the present planted area. it will bear some resemblance to the great Chau- 

 tauqua grape belt along the south shores of Lake Erie. It will differ, however, 

 in the fact that the loganberry vineyards will 1ie many times more profitable to 

 the producer and of greater value to the community, because of the potential 

 market for the many products which they will yield. 



