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petition of the California sun-dried 

 product. The evaporator may use 

 peaches to lengthen his working sea- 

 son, but could not do so at a price in 

 excess of $8.00 per ton. This practi- 

 cally eliminates the drying of peaches 

 from consideration except in years of 

 maximum overproduction and complete 

 disorganization of the market or in dis- 

 tricts which are out of reach of the 

 canneries. 



LOGANBERRIES 

 The prices which the grower may 

 expect to obtain for loganberries are 

 of course determined by the yield of 

 dry product and the cost of drying, 

 and I shall therefore analyze these 

 items. From 2,000 pounds of fresh 

 loganberries the evaporating plant will 

 make approximately 360 pounds of dry 

 fruit, or one pound from each 5Va 

 pounds of berries. At the beginning of 

 the season or in years of excessive rain- 

 fall the yield will fall somewhat below 

 this figure, while toward the close of 

 the season or in years or drought it will 

 rise somewhat above it, but 360 pounds 

 is probably a very accurate average for 

 a plant operating through the season. 

 It may be worth while to call atten- 

 tion to the fact that the first berries 

 which ripen, and which consequently 

 bring the highest prices in the fresh- 

 fruit market, are least valuable for 

 evaporating purposes by reason of their 

 high water content, while those ripen- 

 ing later in the season when the 

 fresh-fruit market has usually declined 

 should bear a premium at the evapo- 

 rator, as they will usually yield 10 to 

 1.T per cent more dry stock than the 

 earlier portion of the crop. 



The actual cost of fuel and labor, in- 

 cluding packing, per ton of dry logan- 

 berries will of course vary consider- 

 ably with the type and capacity of the 

 plant, but will approximate .$35.00 per 

 ton, or l-'i cents per pound of dry 

 product, with not more than 10 per 

 cent variation cither way. That por- 

 tion of the cost of the work which is 

 made up of the items of interest on cost 

 of building, insurance, depreciation of 

 building and equipment, and superin- 

 tendence of the work will of course 

 vary quite widely accordingly as the 

 plant may be one which operates only 

 upon berries and prunes and for a sea- 

 son of 00 to 70 days or one which has 

 a sufficient variety of fruits to be kept 

 busy for twice that time, but $15.00 per 

 ton, or three-quarters cent per dry 

 pound, is a fairly close estimate of the 

 cost of those items. This gives a total 

 manufacturing cost of .$50.00 per ton, 

 or iy-i cents per dry pound, for logan- 

 berries packed in 50-i)ound boxes ready 

 for shipment. In some of the larger 

 establishments with a long working 

 season, this cost is reduced to 2 or 2','s 

 cents, while in some of the smaller 



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