REPORTS OF W. K. NEWELL, 



President of Board and Commissioner at Large. 



APRIL MEETING, 1907 



Gastox, Oregon, March 30, 1907. 

 To the Honorable State Board of Horticulture: 



That the horticultural industry of Oregon is growing very rapidly 

 is patent to the most casual observer. New plantings of all kinds of 

 fruits are being made on every hand, and never before was there 

 such activity in pruning and spraying as has been seen this winter. 



Horticultural societies have been formed in nearly every fruit 

 growing locality and have been very active in stirring up interest 

 in the work. Several of these societies are contemplating the organiz- 

 ing of co-operative packing houses in localities where such do not 

 now exist. 



Several new canneries will be established this year; plants at 

 Albany, Eugene, Brownsville, Monmouth, Milton-Freewater and La 

 Grande are already decided upon. There is fruit enough in these 

 localities to warrant starting canneries, and if they are properly 

 supported by the growers supplying them, with increased quantitiej 

 of good fruit as their market demands increase, they will no doubt 

 succeed. As has been so often said through the columns of the Rural 

 Northwest, there is no use expecting to run a cannery on "surplus" 

 fruit alone. A steady and abundant supply must be assured. 

 Although, of course, a cannery cannot pay high market prices at 

 all times for fruit, I firmly believe that they can pay prices that 

 will be very profitable tp the grower, taking into consideration the 

 assured market and the "lessened expense of boxing and packing. The 

 co-operative cannery at Springbrook, a model of its kind, in which 

 nearly every fruit grower of the community is a stockholder, has 

 paid remuneraltive prices to the growers for their fruit, and as 

 stockholders they have taken out neat dividends as well. 



As an evidence of what a cannery can do, the Pacific Coast Syrup 

 Company, of San Francisco, operating a cannery at Seattle, has 

 contracted for this year with the Sumner Valley Fruit Growers' 

 Association for their entire crop of raspberries, estimated at 35,000 

 crates. Certainly the price must be a satisfactory one, as these people 

 have been making big money selling their berries frcoh on the market. 

 There is a great shortage in all kinds of canned fruits, particularly 

 cherries, strawberri&s and raspberries. Gooseberries and currants are 



