June, 1930 



is illustrated in a comprehensive way and can 

 be obtained by applying to agents of the 

 company. 



A new volume entitled "Productive Small 

 Fruit Culture," the work of Fred Coleman 

 Sears, Professor of Pomology Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, and published by the 

 Lippincott Company, has recently come from 

 the press. Without being technical the work 

 covers the subject from a highly intelligent 

 point of view. Numerous illustrations show 

 the many phases of growing, cultivating and 

 packing small fruits and in many respects the 

 volume will fill a demand in the fruit growing 

 world as a ready reference book on the suc- 

 cessful growing of small fruits. 



Proposed increases in freight and express 

 rates will increase the shipping bills of fruit 

 growers in Washington and Oregon this year 

 more than ?10,000,000, according to figures 

 submitted at a meeting in Spokane of the exe- 

 cutive committee of the North Pacific Fruit 

 League. Walla Walla, Yakima, Wenatchee, 

 Hood River and Spokane districts were repre- 

 sented. The league will wage a vigorous fight 

 against all increases proposed. The 1919 

 apple crop of the four Northwestern states, it 

 was pointed out, was 30,000 cars and of all 

 fruits about 40,000 cars. There is every indi- 

 cation now that the 1920 crop will be as large. 

 .T, G. Wilson, of Portland, counsel for the 

 league, has compiled figures showing that the 

 1919 freight bill of Washington and Oregon 

 alone was approximately $19,000,000 on apples, 

 peaches and pears. 



Fruit growers of the Wenatchee district, 

 comprising Chelan, Okanogan, Douglas and 

 Grant Counties, it is reported will have to pay 

 nearly .?2, 000, 000 more for boxes, paper and 

 nails used in the packing of this year*s fruit 

 crop than was expended by them in 1919. 

 Within the last few days several big contracts 

 have been signed up at prices ranging from 28 

 to 30 cents. Spruce boxes will sell to the 

 grower at 28 cents under these contracts and 

 pine boxes at 30 cents for the heavy dimen- 

 sion shooks. Some sales have been made at 

 slightly less than the above figures, and hem- 

 lock boxes are now offered at about one cent 

 below- the price quoted for spruce. These 

 prices are double what were prevailing one 

 year ago today. If the total fruit crop of the 

 Wenatchee district holds up to last year's fig- 

 ure with the natural increase resulting from 

 the increasing bearing capacity of the trees, 

 there should be 10,000,000 boxes of fruit 

 packed out this year. That would mean a 

 total cost to the grower of about .$3,000,000 

 for boxes. This compares w-ith about $1,500,- 

 000 last year. Wrapping paper presents a 

 still more serious problem for the growers 

 than does the box question. Wholesale 

 houses and mills that formerly bid for this 

 business are absolutely refusing to take or- 

 ders for more than a portion of the amounts 

 they usually sell. One large dealer was in- 

 formed by the firm which has always supplied 

 all its paper that only 60 per cent of the local 

 dealers' requirements could be shipped this 

 year. 



Cannery Notes 



The operations of the Bitter Root Canning 

 Company in the Bitter Root Valley, Montana, 

 are being extended this year by the purchase 

 by J. W. McKinnon, Jr., manager of the can- 

 nery of I.tO acres of productive land which 

 will be planted to green peas. The company 

 expects this year to put up 2,000 cases of peas 

 or double the pack of last year. 



The Oregon Growers' Cooperative Associa- 

 tion recently closed a deal at Dallas, Oregon, 

 with .1. C. Shultz for a plot of ground along 

 the Southern Pacific Railroad on which it will 

 erect a packing plant to take care of the prune 

 and other fruit crops which the organization 

 will handle in that vicinity. It is planned to 

 have a cold storage plant in connection with 

 the new packing plant. 



The Drager Fruit Handling Company, which 

 operates in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, has 

 commenced the erection of one of the largest 

 fruit packing plants in the state at Roseburg. 

 The new plant will be IOOx.tO feet with an 

 annex. The main Imiiding will be three stor- 

 ies high and will cost, with improved equip- 

 ment thai will be added, $2.S,000. V. T. Jack- 

 son, the local manager of the plant says that 

 it is expected to have it entirely completed by 

 September. 



The Graves Canning Company, which recent- 

 ly purchased the siring of canneries owned and 

 operated by the Brownsville Canning CompEuiy 

 announces through its head, Roy Graves, that 



BETTER FRUIT 



it is the intention of the company to p.iy more 

 than the contract price for fruits to growers 

 in case prices advance during the coming 

 season. The company is now endeavoring to 

 make contracts with growers for a term of 

 five to eight years. Fifty additional acres are 

 being put into berries in the Brownsville dis- 

 trict this year and it is expected that 300 

 acres will be planted next year. 



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A trade interest of note is the fact that the 



British Board of Trade recently removed the 



export embargo on canned cherries. At the 



present time other canned fruits may be ex- 

 ported only under license. 



The A. Rupert Company, Incorporated, 

 which operates the largest number of canner- 

 ies in Oregon, recently announced the election 

 of Walter A. Frost, of Chicago to the presi- 

 dency of that institution. H. F. Davidson, 

 one of the largest fruit growers in the Hood 

 River Valley was elected first vice-president 

 .ind secretary, and D. C. Minor was appointed 

 assistant to the president. Mr. Frost is the 

 head of the Walter A. Frost Company of Chi- 

 cago, one of the largest canned food and brok- 

 erage concerns in the middle west. He will 

 make Portland his headquarters and follow- 

 ing his election stated that the policy of ex- 

 pansion and cooperation with growers in the 

 development of the fruit industry, adopted by 

 the late A. Rupert would be continued. The 

 program for expenditures for plant better- 

 ments and improvements this year calls for 

 an expenditure of $150,000 and the company 

 expects to do a .$2,000,000 business in buying 

 fruits in Oregon and Washington this year, 

 provided fruit and sugar prices do not soar 

 to a prohibitive figure. 



Arrangements are being made for the in- 

 stallation of a by-products plant at Wapato, 

 Washington, by the Sunset Fruit & Produce 

 Company. The stockholders of the company 

 recently agreed to an increase in the capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $200,000 for improve- 

 ments, the purchase of machinery and other 

 equipment needed. The by-products plant will 

 be housed in an added story to the large brick 

 warehouse and packing plant which the com- 

 pany already owns at Wapato. The company 

 proposes to manufacture all of the by-prod- 

 ucts of the apple, to make catsup, mince meat 

 and other table foods and to install a mill 

 for the manufacture of starch from cull po- 

 tatoes. 



The Idaho Canneries Company, Incorporated, 

 which has taken over the cannery at Payette, 

 Idaho, is making arrangements to enlarge the 

 building and re-equip the establishment with 

 modern machinery that will permit the com- 

 pany to pack a complete line of fruits and 

 vegetables. It has been actively engaged for 

 several weeks in securing all the available 

 fruit and vegetable tonnage for the cannery 

 and will start the plant at the opening of the 

 canning season. The new men interested in 

 the cannery are F. M. Lane, Rochester, N. Y., 

 and 0. S. Pratt of Salt Lake. W. A. Cougha- 

 nour and F. .M. Ross, formerly with the old 

 company are on the board of directors. 



According to J. K. Armsby, president of the 

 California Packing Corporation, the rising 

 price of sugar will very materially increase 



the price of California canned fruits this year 

 and cut down the output. Mr. Armsby denies 

 the statement that California canners had con- 

 tracts for sugar covering a period of several 

 years at prices less than are now prevailing 

 and says that they have had to buy in the 

 open market. 



Sacramento canneries will turn out between 

 $14,000,000 and $15,000,000 in canned goods this 

 year, according to estimates. Libby, McNeill 

 & Libby's Sacramento County plants have al- 

 ready put up 175,000 cases of spinach and 

 300,000 cases of asparagus. The canneries will 

 pay approximately $6,500,000 to growers and 

 labor this year. 



Fruit as FirstrAid^to 

 Convalescence 



"Two Tons of Oranges— the Gift of 

 the Alhambra-San Gabriel Red Cross 

 Chapter, to the Sick and Disabled 

 Soldiers at Letterman Hospital, San 

 Francisco. Your Turn Next!" 



This legend in bold letters on the side 

 of a two-ton auto truck advertised the 

 merits of fruit as a first aid to conval- 

 escence over a circuit of five hundred 

 miles, as the golden cargo made its way 

 along the valley from the Southern 

 California town on to the Pacific Coast. 

 Newspapers all along the route gave a 

 still wider publicity to the generosity 

 of the fruit growers of the Sunset state 

 for in addition to the oranges there 

 were quantities of lemons and grape- 

 fruit, while at Los Angeles the local 

 Red Cross Chapter added a contribu- 

 tion of seventy-five pounds of candy. 



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