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tina, but which, while the Italian people 

 have in some cases escaped starvation 

 so narrowly that even reduced France 

 had to send them shipments just before 

 Christmas, must remain there. Yet we 

 in Canada have our "second helpings," 

 and some people write to the Food Con- 

 troller with sardonic humor to ask if 

 "food control is not a joke." So little 

 have we learned in forty months of 

 warfare that we have not yet compre- 

 hended that Italy is fighting in effect as 

 much for Canada as are our own Cana- 

 dian soldiers just north on the same 

 line. Had Canadians been in the tight 

 place that the Italian civilians are now 

 they would long since have cried out 

 for a fairer bearing of the weight. Can 

 one wonder that Italy, in dire distress, 

 is looking for more loyal help from an 

 allied Dominion? 



This is not charily, this thing, food 

 control. It is war. The Allies have a 

 right to demand it. They have a right 

 to resent the offer of only what is "left 

 over." Those who are fighting a com- 

 mon battle for civilization and common 



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protection have a higher claim than 

 Lazarus had to only the "crumbs that 

 fell from the rich man's table." The 

 Canadian people must get the right 

 ethics of war-time food control. 



Remember, we have had the warning: 

 "I fear the disciplined people behind 

 the Germany army, the rationed family, 



* * more than the Imperial army 

 itself." 



Small Fruits 



By W. H. Paulhamus, Pres. Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' Canning Co., Puyallup, Wash. 



THE present demand for jellies, jams 

 and preserves has given a new 

 stimulus to the growing of bush fruits, 

 consisting of blackberries, red rasp- 

 berries, black raspberries, gooseberries, 

 red and black currants, loganberries, 

 phenomenal berries, and in fact every 

 other kind of berries that do so well in 

 our North Pacific Coast climate. 



A few years ago red raspberries were 

 a drug on the market at four to five 

 cents per pound; today the canner is 

 paying the grower eight cents per 

 pound for the same product and is un- 

 able to secure a sufficient quantity to 

 take care of his requirements. The old 

 evergreen blackberry that has been so 

 much of a pest to the average farmer 

 has certainly come into its own, with 

 a result that every canner is anxious 

 to secure all of the evergreen black- 

 berries that are obtainable and is will- 

 ing to pay a price ranging from five to 

 five and one-half cents per pound. In 

 fact, every cross-roads merchant can 

 create a market for these blackberries 

 by arranging to put them in barrels for 

 some responsible canner and ship them 

 daily to a cold-storage plant, in other 

 words, the present prices of all bush 

 fruits should stimulate very materially 

 an increased production. 



The question that naturally arises in 

 the mind of the man who has a few 

 sin plus acres of land is the advisability 

 of planting; what variety to plant; how 

 they should be planted, and the best 

 method of handling after the planting 

 is completed. 



In red raspberries the desirable vari- 

 ety is the Cuthbert, for the reason that 

 it can be used in jam making or in can- 

 ning in syrups. There is no other red 

 raspberry grown that has sufficient 

 texture to withstand Hie necessary pro- 

 cessing required in putting up in cans. 

 Of course, in jam making it doesn't 



make any difference how much the 

 berry is crushed up the jam is equally 

 good, but this is not true in canning 

 and is equally not true in whole-fruit 

 preserves in glass. 



In the black raspberry the Munger 

 variety appears to do the best in the 

 canneries of the Pacific Northwest, 

 therefore the grower should produce 

 the black raspberry that the canner de- 

 sires to purchase. 



In the loganberries, it doesn't make 

 any difference to the manufacturer of 

 loganberry juice whether it is the lo- 

 ganberry or the phenomenal berry, but 

 from a canning standpoint the larger 

 the berry the more satisfied the con- 

 sumer. Inasmuch as the phenomenal 

 berry is very much larger than the 

 loganberry and of equally good qual- 

 ity, it would be advisable to set out a 

 portion of the new 7 plantings of phe- 

 noemnals and a portion of loganber- 

 ries; in fact, the variety to plant de- 

 pends entirely upon the adaptability 

 of the berry to the particular soil that 

 you are using. The phenomenal berry 

 is a little more tender in some places 

 than in others, but it is not advisable 

 to undertake to plant too great an acre- 

 age of phenomenals without having 

 some experience as to the adaptability 

 of this berry to your particular com- 

 munity. 



In strawberries, of course we all 

 appreciate that there is no strawberry 

 equal to the Clark Seedling either for 

 fresh consumption or for canning pur- 

 poses; but the Clark Seedling is gen- 

 erally considered a shy bearer, there- 

 fore if you could produce a crop of one 

 hundred per cent more berries of some 

 oilier variety the chances are thai the 

 crop producing the big yield will be 

 the greatest price getter for you. Next 

 to the Clark Seedling, from a canning 

 standpoint, is the Wilson, whicb is an 



excellent canner and a very fine berry 

 for every purpose. In the Puget Sound 

 country the Marshall comes third, as it 

 is a good cropper and an excellent can- 

 nery berry. The Magoon berry appears 

 to grow the greatest yield per acre, but 

 if berries are plentiful it would be im- 

 possible for the grower to sell any 

 Magoons to a canner just as long as he 

 is able to procure any other variety for 

 his requirements. 



Gooseberries are becoming a great 

 factor in the manufacture of jam. The 

 old-fahsioned Oregon Champion ap- 

 pears to be the most desirable that can 

 be grown. Gooseberries should be 

 planted not closer than five feet apart 

 and should be sprayed very thoroughly 

 at least twice every year so as to pro- 

 duce the best results. 



Victoria red currants are good, heavy 

 croppers. The berry is of good size, 

 good texture, and of excellent quality. 

 The black currant is very desirable for 

 jam-making purposes and can be mar- 

 keted at a very satisfactory price. 



Damson plums are in great demand 

 for jam-making purposes, as are also 

 Quinces. Quinces and Damson plums 

 do about as well in this part of the 

 world as any other tree fruit that is 

 available, but they are hard to secure 

 for the reason that there are so few 

 places that they can be used to ad- 

 vantage, but the increased demand 

 for jam makes them a very desirable 

 product. 



The apple grower needs a reasonable 

 amount of bush fruits on his farm so 

 as to give him early money. The goose- 

 berry is the first berry to ripen, then 

 comes the strawberry, red raspberry, 

 loganberry, currants, and finally the 

 blackberry. All of these crops are ma- 

 tured and out of the way before the 

 apple crop is ready to harvest, and 

 there is no grower who should not 

 enter into all of these lines to a reason- 

 able extent. 



"It Is the War" 

 In France fifty per cent of the total 

 energy of the people is said to go into 

 military effort. Hardships, hunger, sor- 

 row — all suffering is excused with the 

 explanation, "It is the war.' - This is 

 the kind of spirit needed in every 

 American home. 



War is an ugly thing, but a German 

 peace is uglier — Russian farmers are 

 producing German fond. 



