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Dr. Caldwell: Over a period of two 

 years here in the Nortliwest for a 

 monthly average and in an intermit- 

 tent, gapy fashion over a longer period, 

 and for the New York markets over a 

 much longer period, and it is to those 

 markets that we must look rather than 

 to the markets here in the Northwest, 

 for the reason that those are the fel- 

 lows who will determine what we are 

 going to get for our product when we 

 come into competition with them for 

 the foreign markets. That is the estab- 

 lished market and it is the one which 

 will pull down any high prices we are 

 getting here as soon as our products 

 refch it and come in conflict with it. 



Mr. Hanauer: We have grafted over 

 some of our undesirable varieties into 

 Rome Beautys and have gotten from 20 

 to 30 boxes to the tree. 1 wouldn't urge 

 anyone to pull out his trees if he is 

 fortunately located. We wish all our 

 apples were Rome Beautys. 



Question: Does it pay to top graft 

 worthless varieties to profitable ones'? 



Twelve voted in favor of it, eleven 

 against it. 



Mr. Van Holderbeck: R does not 

 pay, at least it will cost more than it is 

 worth. 



Mr. Paulus, Salem Fruit Growers' 

 Association, Salem, Oregon: The by- 

 products plant at Salem is the best situ- 

 ated of any by-products plant in the 

 Northwest, but down in Salem we don't 

 call it a by-products plant but a fruit- 

 products factory. Our association was 

 organized in 1909 with a membership 

 of 100, which has since increased to 

 525. Our volume of business is over 

 one-half million dollars a year and we 

 are handling the products off of 2,500 

 acres of prunes, about 1,000 acres of 

 loganberries and about 3,000 to 4,000 

 acres of other fruits, small fruits, cher- 

 ries, apples, etc. We don't handle many 

 apples and we have not encouraged 

 anybody to put out many. We were, 

 however, the means of getting one of 

 the largest apple-juice factories in the 

 Northwest started, the Northwest Fruit 

 Products Plant at Olympia. When the 

 slate went dry it made it necessary for 

 the State Brewery Association to find 

 another business. I went to the man- 

 ager and board of directors and for 

 about three months worked with them 

 to start a loganberry-juice factory. 

 Before that our board of directors had 

 appropriated $2,500 to make experi- 

 ments with logenberry juice. We had 

 an oversupply of loganberries and un- 

 less we had developed the juice busi- 

 ness wc would have been goners. We 

 made a great many experiments in con- 

 nection with Professor Lewis, who fur- 

 nished us a man who started in during 

 the season making juice and making 

 notes of the different processes. After 

 about three months' work I got the 

 brewery people to consent to go into 

 the loganberry-juice business. I think 

 there are now about fifteen loganberry- 

 juice factories making a total of about 

 one-half million gallons of juice. 



We dry loganberries, cherries, apples, 

 etc. We have not found it profitable to 

 compete with California peaches, which 

 are sun dried. This year we handled 

 about 3,000,000 pounds of prunes, which 



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