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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



We carry in Portland 



Stock Labels for Apples, Pears 



Strawberries and 



Cherries 



Can make shipment of 

 Printed Stock Labels in 24 hours. 

 Send for Samples 

 and Prices 



TME5inP30N^F?rD0ELLER CO. 



1423-24 NORTHWESTERN BANK BLDC. 



PORTLAND. E.Shelley Morgan, Manager. 



OREGON. 



owned by private capitiil or stock cor- 

 porations. An efi'ort sliould be made to 

 have these successful phints join in this 

 cooperative movement. Wherever this 

 can be accomplished a possible compet- 

 itor will be eliminated and the tech- 

 nical knowledge and practical experi- 

 ence of the successful operator will be 

 at the disposal of the cooperative organ- 

 ization. I have used the term "success- 

 ful" advisedly, since an unsuccessful 

 operator can neither be of benefit nor 

 can he be a hindrance to the coopera- 

 tive movement, while the "successful" 

 operator may be either. For this rea- 

 son, this movement should make every 

 legitimate endeavor to enlist the inter- 

 est and cooperation of the owner of 

 existing successful by-products plants. 



Under this cooperative plan it will 

 also be possible to adopt certain stan- 

 dards in the various byproducts that it 

 will be found practicable to manufac- 

 ture. This standardization will greatly 

 facilitate the marketing of the outjjut of 

 these plants. The marketing should all 

 be done by a central organization, 

 which organization successful indepen- 

 dent plants should also be invited to 

 join. After a close study of this sub- 

 ject covering a long period, I am firmly 

 convinced that a plan similar to the one 

 thus outlined is not only feasible but 

 practical. We have a sjjlendid example 

 of the great possibilities of a cooperat- 

 ive plant of this kind in the cannery at 

 Puyallup, which is under the successful 

 management of Mr. W. H. Paulhamus, 

 who has probably more canning infor- 

 mation "canned" in his spacious cra- 

 nium than any other individual in the 

 Northwest, and who is unselfishly will- 

 ing to impart some of his knowledge to 

 others and to allow others to benefit by 

 his experiences. 



Great strides have been made in 

 recent years in the improvement of 

 machinei-y employed in the by-jjroducts 

 industries. This ap])lies particularly to 

 the various appliances used in canning. 

 Progress is also being made in the im- 

 provement of evaporating machinery, 

 both for the preparation of the fruit to 

 be dried and for the drying process 

 itself. In considering evaporators, it 

 .should be remembered, however, that 

 the type of plant to be installed will 

 depend largely upon the conditions ob- 

 taining in the district in which the 



plant is to be located. A number of 

 evaporating or dehydrating plants are 

 now on the market and much is claimed 

 for each individual type. It is recom- 

 mended that great care be taken in the 

 selection of any of these new types, and 

 that expert advice be secured before the 

 purchase is made. The selection of the 

 proper machinery for the preparation 

 of the raw material is of equal impor- 

 tance. When it is considered that it 

 requires practically eight pounds of 

 green apples to produce one pound of 

 the dried fruit, and that the eight 

 pounds of the green aijples must be 

 peeled, bleached and sliced, before be- 

 ing submitted to the drying process, it 

 will be understood that highly econom- 

 ical methods of preparation must be 

 employed. Excellent paring machines 

 with automatic feeding attachments are 

 now on the market, and self-feeding 

 slicing machines can be purchased. In 

 fact, an evaporating plant can be so 

 arranged that from the time the apple 

 leaves the trimmer it need not be 

 touched until it is ready to go into 

 the kiln, tunnel or cabinet, according 

 to the type of evaporator used. 



The markets for our manufactured 

 by-products are both at home and 

 abroad. Reports by those who are con- 

 sidered authorities on this subject, indi- 

 cate that the marketing of our canned 

 fruits is limited to the markets of the 

 I'nited States and Canada and to Eng- 

 land, while our dried fruit can be sold 

 to i)ractically every country in Europe 

 and Asia. The o|3ening of the Panama 

 Canal also olTers great opi)ortunities, 

 owing to a material lowering of freight 

 rates and this will naturally have a 

 marked effect ujjon the industry. In 

 conclusion I wish to say that to my 

 nund the by-products industry is the 

 anchor of hope to the Northwest, and 

 the sooner this is realized, the better 

 and brighter our future will be. 



DO I-ARMERS THINK? 



This question was siiRScsIcd l)y tlic iinjuiry 

 made i)y the Muskegon Knitting Mills, offering 

 to pay *910 to anyone wlio would {;i\c them a 

 logical reason for wearinji pointed-toed hosiery 

 on right and left feet. They fiisl wrote to their 

 customers, then advertisetl in the papers an<l 

 magazines. They have received many re])lies. hut 

 most of them expressed the same idea, which 

 was : "I never thought about my hosier.v before." 



.Tudging from the outlines of the feet which 

 many of these parties sent in. Ihe,\' must have 

 sulTered untcdd agonies from bunions, ingrow- 



ing toe nails and corns, and yi't they never 

 thollghl. 



A man's feet are made right and left. He 

 wears right and left shoes. Sometimes he 

 wears a pointed-toed shoe which crowds his 

 toes and makes them look like the accomi)any- 

 ing illustration, but even if he wears the nat- 



ural shajie shoe, as shown in this illustration, 

 with a pointed-toed sock, he pinches his toes 

 just the same. 



You have oftett noticed that your sock wears 

 Old first on the large toe. This is because the 

 great toe is trying to keep straight, while the 

 stocking is trying to pinch it into the middle 

 of the shoe, with the result that the pressure 

 against the sock makes a hole. 



The ^luskegon Knitting Mills have lately se- 

 cured a patent on a new idea in hosiery known 

 as Haight's Right and Left Comfort Hose. These 

 are made rights and lefts, the same as the 

 natural shape shoe. They give the wearer the 

 pleasant sensation of being barefoot. They 

 wear even longer than the famous Vegetable 

 Silk Hosiery manufactured l)y this concern for 

 the last twenty years, and are certainly logical 

 in design. They are made in heavy wool socks 

 for winter, or medium weight vegetable silk, at 

 50 cents per pair; also diiferent weights of 

 cotton at 2.'i cents per pair. 



The Muskegon Knitting Mills sell their pro- 

 duct directly from the mills to the consumer, 

 through the mails, and any reader of "Retter 

 Fruit" can secure a samiile jjair of this modern 

 style of hosiery by sending a money order for 

 the proper amount, with the outline of the foot, 

 to show the size required, to the Muskegon 

 Knitting AliUs, Muskegon, Michigan. 



Look at the illustration, and decide which 

 foot looks like yours. If vou are suffering w ith 

 bunions, oi- cramped toes," STOP AND THINK- 

 WHY PINCH YOVR TOES ANY LONGER?— Ad. 



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