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with the final result that tliis spring 

 we still had a debt of $29,000, and we 

 were going into the next season. If we 

 could not move those berries we were 

 doomed. Necessarily we did some tall 

 plugging. Bv the first of June I had 

 that S29,000 all back and within three 

 months I had sold the balance of those 

 crops and the 1916 crop, making the 

 total sale for this year one-half million 

 pounds. 



I want to commend Dr. Caldwell on 

 his fearlessness. He has made several 

 statements in regard to by-products 

 that are absolutely the truth. If you 

 will go down into Oregon into almost 

 any town you will find the wreck of a 

 cannery which was either promoted by 

 some manufacturer or by some mis- 

 guided person who had the interest of 

 the community at heart but lacked the 

 judgment necessary to put that kind of 

 a plant through. In the dried-fruit 

 business there are not so very many 

 associations; there are four in Oregon. 

 We have in Salem two fruit-juice fac- 

 tories, three dried-fruit packing plants, 

 two large canneries and three vinegar 

 plants. There is one thing that we have 

 our evaporators for. We are troubled 

 during the ripening period of cherries 

 with rain, which in some seasons 

 causes 40 to 50 per cent of the cherries 

 to crack on the trees. We dry those 

 cherries and we have found by a great 

 deal of pushing we can get a market 

 for those cherries. The same is true 

 of our other dried fruits; we have prac- 

 tically had to create a market. We are 

 getting good prices this year for our 

 prunes in spite of the war on account 

 of the short crop in California. We are 

 not encouraging anybody to put out 

 loganberries now until we see how the 

 juice takes. If it takes well there will 

 be great possibilities and extension in 

 the loganberry field. 



J. B. Felts, Opportunity, Washington.: 

 Theie are two sides to this co-operative 

 proposition. This gentleman has the 

 statistics down from the manager's side, 

 but is the grower making a living — 

 what amount does he get per acre? 



Mr. Paulus: Down in Salem we make 

 a living ofi' our land. We figure our 

 orchards are worth from .$200 to $350 

 an acre. If you keep the price of the 

 land down you can make a living. We 

 have had a couple of failures in 'the 

 prune business. Up to three years ago 

 we had had only one failure, but we 

 have had three bad years out of five. 



Question: If you were in a strictly 

 apple district what would you propose? 



Mr. Paulus: I would hate to tackle 

 any by-product, especially evaporating, 

 on one product alone. You have got 

 to have a variety of stuff to handle to 

 enable you to go on the market. It 

 might be i)ossible to specialize on apples 

 if you could get great enough tonnage 

 and put up an especially fine pack. 



Question: In your district you raise 

 blackberries and other small fruits as 

 well as loganberries? 



Mr. Paulus: The canners pay so 

 much for these fruits that we can't 

 afford to create a market for them. If 

 the loganberry juice pans out 1 think 

 we can pay three cents a pound for 

 the loganberries. 



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