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BETTER FRUIT 



May, 1^20 



DOW 



DEPENDABLE 



Spray Materials 



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 Dow Powdered Magnesium Arsenate 

 Dow Powdered Lime Sulphur 

 Dow Paste Arsenate of Lead 

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MIDLAND, MICHIGAN 



DAYTON LITE 



Type HLM direct connected plant will give 50 lights 

 from the generator with which you can get an ideal dis- 

 tribution of brilliant light in your PACKING HOUSE 

 making your packing day as long as desired, the packers 

 satished, the work easier, quicker and more accurate. 

 Will give current for the many electrically operated ap- 

 pliances about the ranch. THE GRADER, water systern 

 etc , etc. 



Also has a 3 HP engine which can be used for 

 mechanical power, using no more kerosene or gasoline 

 than smaller plants. 



Also a small direct connected lighting plant, belted 

 systems and pressure water system. 



Write for Bulletins. 



CHAS. W. RAYMOND 



521 Oregon Building Portland, Oregon 



LIVE DEALERS— We have some good territory still 

 open in Oregon and Washington. Write today. 



The strawberry season was started in llie 

 Sacramento Valley April 15th. There is a 25 

 per cent increase in acreage over last year. 

 Most of the crop has been contracted for at 

 14 cents per pound. 



The new oITlccrs of the South Bend Canning 

 Company who were recently elected are: Ben 

 Armstrong, vice-president; A. P. Pederson, 

 vice-president; E. Pederson, secretary; Theo- 

 dore Myers and F. A. Hazeltine, trustees. 



In order to do business on a much larger 

 scale than heretofore the Rogue River Valley 

 Canning Company, at Medford, is Installing 

 more equipment and providing for increased 

 space. Having purchased additional land, 

 the company is now building a new warehouse 

 and cold storage plant 50x75 feet. The com- 

 pany has also purchased an additional half 

 block near its new warehouse for a new- 

 cannery site. 



The Brownsville Cannery Company, one of 

 the oldest and most successful in Oregon, is 

 reported to have been purchased by the Graves 

 Cannery Company at Sheridan. The Browns- 

 ville Company has two branches, one at Forest 

 Grove and one at Corvallis and both establish- 

 ments have been a financial success. 



Indications are now that Canby, Oregon, 

 will have a cannery this year to take care of 

 the berry crop in that section. At a recent 

 meeting there growers were urged to plant 

 additional acreage. The meeting was ad- 

 dressed by W. R. Scott of Albany, connected 

 with the Puyallup and .Sumner Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Canning Company who stated that if suf- 

 ficient tonnage was secured a cannery would 

 be erected at that point. 



The largest and most modern lemon process- 

 ing and packing plant in California has just 

 been completed at Maxwell, Colusa County. It 

 will handle the product from the greater por- 

 tion of the Sacramento Valley, particularly the 

 Mills Orchard Company's property, which has 

 700 acres of lemon trees. 



The seven largest asparagus canneries in the 

 world, located in Sacramento County's delta 

 section, started operations for the season April 

 15. The 1920 pack will be in excess of 750,000 

 boxes. The price of unsorted asparagus to the 

 owners ranges from six to eight cents a pound 

 — the highest ever paid in the history of the 

 industry. 



Wine grapes in this section are being con- 

 tracted for at as high as $40 a ton for the 

 1920 crop. But none will be used in wine 

 making. The greater part will go toward man- 

 ufacturing the beverage that Bill Bryan made 

 famous, while thousands of pounds will be 

 dried. 



According to the American consul at Tient- 

 sin, China, a considerable trade is being built 

 up in that district for American canned goods. 

 The American goods are sold in competition 

 with the British, French, Australian and Jap- 

 anese products. The American fruits that are 

 imported are apricots, apples, cherries, grapes, 

 plums, peaches and pears, but more peaches 

 and pears are sold than fruits of any other 

 kind. Dried prunes, apricots, apples and 

 peaches are imported for the use of foreigners. 

 The French and British goods are put up in the 

 same sized tins as the American goods, namely, 

 two and one-half pound tins which hold about 

 one quart and are packed two dozen cans in a 

 case. As to quality, American canned goods 

 are quite equal to those from other countries 

 on sale in this city. The packing and labeling 

 of American goods is quite as attractive as 

 that used in connection with the goods of any 

 other country. About 60 per cent of the canned 

 fruit sold in North China is what is known 

 as second quality; that is, the syrup is of 

 light and inferior grade and the fruit is not of 

 selected quality. The British jams, jellies, and 

 marmalades are by far the most extensively 

 sold of any brands on this market, not only 

 to foreigners, but the Chinese also buy in 

 fairly large quantities. In addition. French 

 .jams and preserved fruits have a good sale. 

 The latter are put up in one-pound glass jars, 

 while the former are in one-pound tins. The 

 French jams are put up in a more attractive 

 manner and sell at a slightly higher price than 

 the British. Crystallized fruits in glass bottles 

 have also a limited sale. 



The Oregon Growers' Cooperative Associa- 

 tion which is rapidly getting into shape to 

 handle the large tonnage of fruit placed under 

 its management announces that it has taken 

 over packing houses at Medford and Roseburg. 

 The price paid for the Medford property was 

 $50,000. 



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