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BETTER FRUIT 



July, jpip 



a number of pickers who had been visiting 

 ranches in that district and endeavoring to get 

 the pickers to strike and ordered them to leave 

 the valley. The strike agitators were at first 

 defiant, but later, bpfore the determined stand 

 of the growers, consented to go back to Port- 

 land. The pickers were receiving 12 and 13 

 cents per carrier and a good picker could earn 

 as much as $4 per day. The strikers were de- 

 manding 15 cents per carrier. 



What They Are Doing in 

 California 



The California State Industrial Welfare Com- 

 mission recently issued an order to the effect 

 that women workers engaged in the prepara- 

 tion of fruit and vegetables in canneries must 

 be paid at the rate of not less than 28 cents per 

 hour. The order Is said to affect 20,000 women 

 who are working in the California canneries; 

 it provides that no women or female minors 

 may be employed in the canning industry at a 

 rate of less than 513.50 per week. 



It is reported that the largest almond orchard 

 in California will be planted next season. The 

 orchard w ill be 750 acres in extent and will be 

 set near the Oakdale district by C. W. Klough 

 of San Jose. 



Warnings were recently issued to the or- 

 chardists of California by G. H. Hecke, State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture, in regard to an 

 Invasion of grasshoppers. These insects, which 

 are reported to be very numerous this year in 

 many sections of the country, have been giving 

 California orchardists a good deal of trouble. 

 They are now endeavoring to get rid of them 

 by a poison mixture that was recommended by 

 the State Horticultural Commission. 



The canning season for apricots in California 

 opened June 15th and the output of this fruit 

 from that stale this year is expected to be the 

 largest in its history. 



It will be interesting for Oregon fruit grow- 

 ers to know that California has what is known 

 as a Housing Act which is designed to regulate 

 housing conditions for help employed by the 

 fruit grr)wers in that state. In order to con- 

 form with this act, the Valley Fruit Growers' 

 Association of the San Joaquin Valley recently 

 raised a fund of $20,000 to improve the condi- 

 tions of its community labor camp. 



Notwithstanding the uncertainty of the wine 

 grape growing industry in California, a 20-acre 

 vineyard in the San Joaquin Valley recently 

 sold for ?1,000 per acre. 



One of the most profitable fruits in Califor- 

 nia during the past season was the grape-fruit. 

 The demand for this semi-tropical fruit is 

 said to be steadily growing and larger acreages 

 of it are being planted in several sections of 

 the state. 



Sixty-four thousand dollars was recently 

 paid for a 150-acre peach orchard in Merced 

 and Fresno Counties. Another fruit orchard 

 containing 400 acres of peaches, apricots and 

 prunes sold for $250,000. 



Fruit growers in the Imperial Valley are 

 organizing a movement to prevent alien ten- 

 ancy of lands in that section. The growers call 

 the movement an Americanization program. It 

 is said that at the present time there are about 

 25,000 acres in the Imperial Valley that are 

 owned or controlled by Japanese or Hindus. 

 About 50 per cent of the Hindus are reported 

 to have recently moved to the Salt Valley in 

 Arizona, owing to the opposition in California. 



A fig tree growing upon Chas. O'Neil's place 

 near Oroville, California, is said to be the 

 largest yet found. The trunk of this tree meas- 

 ures 8 feet in circumference and it has a 

 branch spread of 65 feet. It is estimated that 

 the tree is about 68 years old. 



Now that prices for all varieties of fruit in 

 California, as well as elsewhere, are jumping 

 up by leaps and bounds a good deal of dis- 

 satisfaction is reported among the growers in 

 the San Joaquin Valley who have long-time 

 contracts with packers and canners. The grow- 

 ers claim that the advance in the price of labor 

 and other items leaves them with little, if any, 

 profit from the year's business. The contract 

 grower is now said to be selling his fruit for $.35 

 per ton, while the open-market price is around 

 §70. Many of these contracts, it is reported, 

 were made at $22.50 to $25 per ton. Growers 

 are of the opinion that their contracts should 

 be revised upwards. 



In a talk on the benefits of co-operation 

 among fruit producers recently made by Col. 



"Black Leaf 40" 



CHANGE IN PRICES 

 Effective June 1, 1919 



We fully realize that a change in the selling prices of a standard com- 

 modity like our "Black Leaf 40" causes very considerable inconvenience 

 to all parties in interest. It has long been our custom to "take the 

 general-average" of profit over a period of years — rather than to make 

 more frequent changes in price, in direct proportion to varying condi- 

 tions in the cost of manufacture, etc. 



In this connection, you will probably recall that no advance was 

 made in our prices for "Black Leaf 40" during the entire period of the 

 recent War — a circumstance that was happily aided by the fact that 

 we had accumulated some surplus stock of nicotine, thereby the better 

 enabling us to absorb part of the increasing costs which we had hoped 

 would be merely temporary. 



However, the heavily increasing demand for "Black Leaf 40" has 

 so reduced this surplus, and the present conditions relative to raw 

 material, labor, supplies, etc., are such that we regret we must announce 

 the following change in our prices, effective June 1st, 1919: 



10 lb. tin $13.75 each 



2 lb. tin 3.25 each 



1-2 lb. tin 1.00 each 



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