February, 1920 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 31 



Cannery Notes 



The Umpqua Fruit Growers' association, 

 with headquarters at Roseburg, Oregon, has 

 decided to build and equip a modern cannery 

 in time to take care of the 1920 fruit crop. 

 This action was taken as the result of the suc- 

 cessful year the association has had in the 

 marketing of canned goods from thSir old 

 plant. The new plant will be located in the 

 center of the city of Roseburg along the 

 Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Seventy per 

 cent of the stock of the concern is now owned 

 by farmers near Roseburg and last year it did 

 a" business in the neighborhood of §200,000. 



According to an item in Western Advertis- 

 ing Libby-McNeil & Libby has purchased the 

 Hinckley-Beach cannery at Burbank, Calif. 

 This cannery was the first institution of its 

 kind to locate in the San Fernando valley 

 town. 



The Hood River Glacier says that the Hood 

 River Canning Co., one of the most unique 

 concerns in the country, in that it aims to 

 pack a product of super-excellent quality, has 

 doubled its capacity. The season's run on 

 strawberries, cherries and pears resulted in a 

 total pack of 193,000 cans. A total of 280,000 

 cans of the valley's best grade of apples will 

 be packed. The canning company's payroll 

 for the year's run will approach .?40,000. 



An extensive national campaign has been 

 started by the National Canners" association to 

 increase the consumption of canned fruits and 

 foods and to show that the generally accepted 

 idea that canned goods cause ptomaine poison- 

 ing is erroneous. National weeklies, women's 

 magazines, agricultural journals, trade papers 

 and medical and hospital magazines will be 

 used in addition to the newspapers. A four 

 year campaign is planned according to a state- 

 ment in Judicious Advertising and the asso- 

 ciation will spend 8500,000. 



The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' 

 Canning company of Puyallup, Wash., is to 

 spend §100,000 during 1920 to advertise 

 "Paul's Jams," named after W. H. Paulhamus, 

 president of the company, who has been so 

 successful in building up the business of this 

 cooperative association. The leading national 

 weeklies and magazines of the country will be 

 used. The business of this concern in 191'J 

 amounted to nearly ?1,000,000 and it Is ex- 

 pected that it will be greatly extended this 

 year. 



Canning companies operating in the state of 

 Washington are reported to be making con- 

 tracts for fruit for the coming season. 



Owing to the competition of cider making 

 plants and the short apple crop in New York 

 the evaporating plants in that state had one 

 of the shortest seasons in their history. The 

 prices paid for stock for evaporators ran from 

 $1.75 to $2.00 per hundred and chops and 

 other waste used in by-products ruled high. 



Two million gallons of wine grape juice 

 was put up during the past season by a com- 

 pany in San Joaquin county, Calif. The juice 

 was put into 50 gallon barrels and the barrels 

 were varnished to keep them air tight. The 

 product was shipped east. 



The Buhl Canning company, an Idaho con- 

 cern, announces that it will furnish hot beds 

 for the germination of tomato plants this 

 spring. This step is expected to greatly ex- 

 pedite transplanting and insure an early crop 

 of tomatoes for canning. 



Work has commenced on the cannery to be 

 constructed at Gridley, Calif. Because of the 

 lack of housing accomodations, a large dining 

 room and dormitory will first be built. The 

 lirst unit of the cannery will be complete about 

 .lune first. X survey has been made of the 

 prune orchards and it has been decided to 

 erect a packing house at Gridley. 



The United States has built up an increas- 

 ingly large trade in dried fruits with Austra- 

 lasia, especially with New Zealand, where the 



exports from the United Slates have increased 

 from 3,325,211 pounds in 1914 to 9,205,028 in 

 1918, or 177 per cent. A table in a recent re- 

 port on foreign markets made by the Bureau 

 of Markets of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture shows that raisins are the largest item 

 in this total, prunes second and apricots third. 



Canneries are contracting for next year's 

 asparagus crop in the Sacramento river delta 

 section at from six to eight cents a pound. 

 Last season the price ranged from three to 

 six cents. The asparagus-growing acreage has 

 increased in a phenomenal manner during the 

 past few years in this section, and now totals 

 over 12,000 acres. 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruit Growing 



Under a hill recently introduced at the spe- 

 cial session of the Oregon legislature, all per- 

 sons and companies engaged in the packing 

 or canning of fruits in Oregon would be made 

 liable to a fine of .«t25 to ¥100 unless all con- 

 tainers holding fruits or vegolables grown in 

 the state are labelled designating them as Ore- 

 gon products. 



Leroy Chllds of the Hood River Agricultural 

 Experiment station recently made an address 

 before the annual meeting of the American 

 Entomological Society held at St. Louis. The 

 subject selected by Mr. Chllds was "The Con- 

 trol of Codling Moth, With the Spray Gun, 

 the Spray Rod and Dusting." 



Tlie horticultural department of the Oregon 

 Agricultural Department will experiment with 

 a freak apple shaped like a banana that has 

 been produced at Oregon City. The tree which 

 grew the fruit was purchased several years 

 ago as a Gravenstein. This year three bushels 

 of apples were harvested from it, few of 

 which had seeds. 



Ciders and fruit juices which are allowed 

 to have more than one-half of one per cent 

 of alcohol will come under the ban of the 

 constitutional prohibition act according to a re- 

 cent announcement of Prohibition Commis- 

 sioner Kraemer. 



Frosted box apples on the eastern market 

 which have been selling for .?1.25 to $2.00 per 

 box according to their condition have very 

 materially hurt the sale of sound fruit ac- 

 cording to reports from New York. Up to the 

 middle of January over 8,000 more cars of 

 northwest apples had been shipped to the At- 

 lantic coast than at the same time last year. 

 It is estimated that there are more than 5,000 

 more cars of apples in storage on the Pacific 

 coast at this time than there were last year. 



Of a total of 58,(551 cars of apples shipped 

 in the United States up to December 1, the 

 northwest had shipped 20,759 cars. 



A large delegation of fruitmen from the east 

 were in attendance at the recent meeting of 

 the Western Fruit Jobbers' association which 

 met in San Francisco. 



The possibility of using logged-otf lands for 

 the planting of berries is receiving a great 



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