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BETTER FRUIT 



March, IQ20 



Fruit Box Supply for 1920 



Continued from page 14. 



The meeting also discussed standard 

 packages and the necessity for estab- 

 lishing a shook tariff to inchide specifi- 

 cations for all packages, standard and 

 uniform footage for these packages 

 with a view of bringing the manufac- 

 turers to a uniform basis in figuring 

 stock required for production. It was 

 found that various manufacturers in fig- 

 uring the same box liave varied as much 

 as 10 per cent in their footage computa- 

 tion. It was decided to refer the mat- 

 ter of uniform footage to the separate 

 associations. 



Bees and Beekeeping 



Next to disease in the colony, cold cellars 

 are the biggest single cause of loss to bee- 

 keepers in climates that have cold winters 

 according to H. F. Wilson, in charge of the 

 Wisconsin Experiment Station Apiary. Too 

 rapid use of stores, dysentery and mold on 

 the combs may all result from a cold cellar. 

 Cold cellars are always damp ones, because, 

 as the temperature in the cellar falls, the bees 

 produce more heat and the temperature in the 

 cluster rises, more moisture being given off. 

 This is especially true when the cellar temper- 

 ature is as low as freezing. The production of 

 more heat not only uses up more stores but, 

 if the stores are bad, the amount of refuse 

 matter in the intestines of the bees is so in- 

 creased that dysentery may result. The cold. 



damp air causes moisture to collect in the 

 Iiive and not only makes life miserable for 

 the bees but develops mold on the combs and 

 creates a general bad condition. Whether or 

 not bees winter best in cellars makes llltlc 

 difference just now, according to Mr. Wilson. 

 The point is that a poor cellar is almost as bad 

 as none at all, and in some cases it is worse. 

 In order to get the proper temperature around 

 the cluster, 57 degrees or a little above, the bee 

 cellar should be kept at a constant temperature 

 of aI>out 50 degrees. Any temperature below 

 40 degrees is too low and if the cellar is cold 

 enough to permit frost on the walls the winter 

 loss is greatly increased. Ventilation in the 

 bee cellai- is important only as it regulates the 

 temperature, says Mr. Wilson. When bees 

 come out of the hive and fly around it is likely 

 to be due to either light or dysentery, cer- 

 tainly not to need of air. In fact, bees winter 

 best in cellars where ventilation is provided 

 only when the temperature rises above 55 de- 

 grees. 



According to bee experts, bees, buckwheat 

 and berries, \\'ith clover and cows on the side, 

 are the three best bets for the fruit grower or 

 farmer on light, sandy soils. Strawberries, 

 raspberries, blackberries, clover blossoms and 

 buckwheat are advocated for the bees and the 

 market. The clover hay can be fed to the 

 cows, while the clover seed and buckwheat 

 can also be marketed. 



Boys' and girls' bee clubs under the direction 

 of a beekeeper as teacher are now being advo- 

 cated in the public schools. The first club of 

 this kind was organized recently in Wiscon- 

 sin. The club now has eleven members, each 

 of whom has frona one to five colonies of bees. 

 A prize will be offered for the best produc- 

 tion of honey and care of the bees. 



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One hundred and thirty-flve colonies of bees 

 with an average production of 185 pounds of 

 honey to the colony was the record reported 

 by John Heilman of Oak Point, Washington, 

 from his apiary last year. Other yields re- 

 ported by beekeepers in Washington were 90 

 pounds per colony. The total amount of 

 honey produced by Mr. Heilman's colonics was 

 25,000 pounds. 



Cannery Notes 



ITie canned fruit pack of California exceeded 

 that of 191S by 4,753,676 cases. The number 

 of cases of fruit put up in the state in 1919 

 were: Apricots, 4,395,204; pears, 1,071,687; 

 freestone peaches, 1,962,700; clingstone peaches 

 5,096,249; other fruits, 1,170,563. Total, ?13,- 

 696,403 cases. 



At a meeting recently held at Toppenish. 

 Washington, attended by representatives of 

 the Libtiy, McNeil & Libby canning plant and 

 fifty farmers, the canning company discussed 

 a proposal to increase the growing of cucum- 

 bers and spinach on the reservation. The 

 company promised that if the farmers would 

 increase the planting of these vegetables 75 to 

 100 acres that it would install a salting plant 

 on the reservation. 



A report from Chehalis, Washington, says 

 that the Chehalis cannery of the Lewis County 

 Canning Association will continue to be oper- 

 ated as an independent organization as origin- 

 ally planned, according to action recently 

 taken. Dan W. Bush, who has been at the 

 head of the local organization since it was 

 founded in 1915, has worked out a plan where- 

 by a number of the leading business men of. 

 the city have associated themselves with him 

 in the project, and additional capital will be 

 provided to give it ample financial backing. 

 C. L. Brown. Dr. J. T. Coleman, M. S. Burnett, 

 A. C. St. John, H. C. Coffman, L. H. Sticklin, 

 T. R. Behreud, H. L. Petit, J. M. Sleicher, A. E. 

 PoUom and Hans Johnson, in addition to Mr. 

 Bush and Carl V. Huber, will be heavily in- 

 terested in the new plans, it is stated. 



The gross sales of the canneries operated by 

 the Eugene Fruitgrowers* Association at Rose- 

 burg, Oregon, in 1919, amounted to S889,556.24, 

 and the total number of cases of canned goods 

 put up was 80,576. Fresh fruit totalling 32,944 

 boxes was sold; 266,465 boxes were manu- 

 factured by the box factory and 25,000 gallons 

 of vinegar made by the vinegar plant. The 

 total amount of fruit and vegetables canned 

 and dried by the association was 6,507,391 

 pounds. 



Although the canning and processing plant 

 erected at Sutherlin, Oregon, last year was be- 

 lieved to be large enough to handle the out- 

 put of that district for some time, Frank J. 

 Norton, manage!" of the Sutherlin Fruit Prod- 

 ucts Company, announces that it is too small 

 for the developing business. The result is 

 that the directors of the company have just 

 authorized the building of an additional struc- 

 ture that will be 60x100 feet, which will pro- 

 vide more space for the cannery and also ad- 

 ditional room for another drier. 



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 Salvia Hybrids, white, 

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And our Big Catalog, all for 20 cts. 

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