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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



industry. Cherries in season are an- 

 other fruit that should be used freely, 

 even at the current prices of the last 

 two years.' Pears are next to the apple 

 in their food value in proportion to 

 prices. They should not only he used 

 freely while fresh, but every family 

 should can plenty of them in season. 



I hope I have not made this talk too 

 technical. What I wanted to accom- 

 plish is to impress upon you the value 

 of a fruit and vegetable diet; not only 

 of its value as to health, but in its eco- 

 nomical value from the pocket-book 

 side. But above all else, I would say to 

 you now, of the vegetables eat more 

 potatoes, more carrots, more parsnips, 

 more spinach, more celery than you 

 have been in the habit of doing, and 

 above all and everything else, eat more 

 apples, then still more apples and you 

 will be healthier, wealthier, wiser and 

 more eflicient mentally and physically 

 in the future than you are today. 



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food value. Bananas at 7% cents per 

 pound cost 1.7 cents per 100 calories, 

 and grapes at 20 cents a pound cost but 

 4.0 cents per 100 calories, less than the 

 cost of round steak. Oranges cost 4.3 

 cents per 100 calories. 



There is no reason why there should 

 be so manv oranges consumed in the 

 City of Seattle or in the State of Wash- 

 ington when it is remembered that we 

 produce the finest apples in the world, 

 and that the apple possesses more than 

 double the food value and tonic value 

 of the orange. Instead of serving an 

 orange on your breakfast table, serve 

 an apple and help home industry as 

 well as helping your stomach for its 

 day's work. Eat another apple at night 

 before you go to bed. It is the best 

 thing you can do. Leave out the cake 

 and the sweets and the coffee. Take an 

 apple and a glass of water. 



Even dried apples are not to be de- 

 spised. I can remember when the aver- 

 age farm wife in the Middle West dried 

 her own apples in the fall, and the 

 family were very glad to have mother's 

 dried-apple pie along in the late spring 

 and early summer, and dried apples at 

 20 cents a pound, the present retail 

 price in Seattle, cost 1.5 cents per 100 

 calories. Dried apricots at 25 cents a 

 pound only cost 2 cents per 100 calo- 

 ries; prunes at 17 % cents per pound 

 cost but 1.3 cents and raisins at 15 cents 

 a pound cost but 1 cent for 100 calories, 

 and that brings me to pointing out the 

 value of nuts and fruits in your daily 

 diet. Such nuts as peanuts, Brazil nuts, 

 pecans, almonds, walnuts, hickory nuts, 

 take the place of meat better than any 

 other foods, not excepting beans, which 

 hitherto have been the best-known sub- 

 stitute for meat. Have you ever been 

 out on a hunting or fishing trip and 

 noticed how well satisfied you felt after 

 eating a few nuts to assuage your 

 hunger. They contain the fats the body- 

 needs, in a condensed form, and even 

 at the present prices, they are cheaper 



than meats. Soft-shelled walnuts at 30 

 cents a pound cost but 2 cents per 100 

 calories and almonds at 25 cents per 

 pound cost but 1.6 cents per 100 calo- 

 ries, while the humble peanut at 12% 

 cents per pound cost but .75 cent per 

 100 calories. Nuts and raisins make as 

 fine a lunch as anyone could ask for 

 because they possess all the nutritive 

 elements of wheat and meats and fats 

 combined. 



Even canned fruits and canned vege- 

 tables are as cheap and in many cases 

 cheaper than meats, particularly such 

 vegetables as canned beans, corn, sweet 

 potatoes and peas. Don't be afraid to 

 use the humble prune either, and in so 

 doing vou are not only using a useful 

 and healthful fruit, but helping a home 



Jams, Jellies and Preserves. 

 Possibly the price of butter has al- 

 ready suggested the use of jams, jellies 

 and preserves in larger quantities than 

 usual. But aside from the saving in 

 cost, there is a national service as 

 well. Butter is readily transported 

 and exported, whereas these other 

 products, which are usually put up in 

 glass jars, lend themselves best to 

 home or local consumption. Eat as 

 much as possible of the home-grown 

 products, thus releasing foods which 

 naturally flow in large commercial 

 channels for shipment abroad. This 

 policy has the endorsement of the 

 United States Eood Administration and 

 is essentially sound. Jams, jellies and 

 preserves do not have the same kind 

 of nutriment as butter and are not a 

 substitute, but the judgment of the 

 American housewife and mother is 

 sufficient safeguard against an exces- 

 sive reduction of butter consumption. 



California Deciduous Fruit Shipments 



[From the Packer] 



It now appears perfectly safe to place 

 an estimate of $35,000,000 on the decidu- 

 ous fruit crop of California for 1917, 

 shipped in the fresh state to markets 

 outside of the state. Already the car- 

 load shipments have passed 23,000 car- 

 loads, which is 3,000 carloads above 

 early estimates. 



It is figured roughly by local fruit 

 men that these carloads of fruit should 

 be placed at a value of $1,500 each. 

 The figure is not large for this season, 

 though a definite check would require 

 an enormous amount of bookkeeping, 



Cherries Apricots Peaches 



1913 231 158 2,339 



1914 ' 166 382 2,144 



191? 205 392 1,«89 



lolfi ' " 1«4 290 1,909 



}gi7 ;;;;;; 29s 103 2,431 



The following is a comparative state- 

 ment of the deciduous fruit movement 

 from the state, issued by Charles E. 



Cherries Apricnls Peaches 

 iq17 295 403 2,430% 



1916 :;:;::::.. 104 239% 1,909% 



for prices have been by far the best on 

 record. A figure of $1,300 a car was 

 taken as a basis for the figures of last 

 season, the total of which was some 

 $12,000,000 below that of this year. 



A truly marvelous growth has taken 

 place in the deciduous industry. For 

 the sake of the comparison, the ship- 

 ments for five years are given here- 

 with. It must be remembered in 

 glancing over this table that the 1017 

 season is not yet through. If rain 

 holds off long enough it may be pos- 

 sible to ship 1,000 carloads of grapes 

 vet. The table follows: 



Pears 

 2,496 

 2,725 

 2,646 

 3.701 

 4,76(5 



Plums 

 1,70(5 

 1,907 

 2,225 

 1,999 

 2,(551 



Grapes 



(5,363 



8,773 



9,563 



9,722 

 12,349V. 



Misc. 

 19 

 49 

 58 

 107 

 47 



Totals 

 13,332 

 16.146 

 1(5.778 

 17,891 

 22,954 



Virden, general manager of the Cali- 

 fornia Fruit Distributors, for the sea- 

 son up to and including November 10: 



Pears Plums 



4.768% 2,650% 

 3,699 Vi 1,998% 



Grapes 

 12,(500 

 9,331 % 



Misc. 



61 

 101% 



Totals 

 23,209 

 17,193% 



