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A T a recent meeting of Coeur d'Alcnc valley 

 ■^ apple growers, 35 miles east of Spokane, R. 

 L. Michael, apple buyer from Chicago, offered to 

 buy the entire crop of every member of the asso- 

 ciation, pay 25 cents a boi in advance and fur- 

 nish boxes, the remainder to be paid when the 

 apples are loaded on cars. He quoted the follow- 

 ing prices; Jonathans, $1.50; Wagners, $1.3(1; 

 Rome Beauties, $1.10, and Delicious, $1.75 to 

 $2.25. 



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/^ROWERS in the state of California will here- 

 ^^ after can their fresh figs themselves. Starting 

 this season a large tonnage of fruit in the form of 

 canned figs, preserved figs and fig jam will be 

 placed on the market by the California Peach and 

 Fig Growers, a co-operative marketing association 

 of over 8,000 members. 



The move marks the cutting away from the in- 

 dependent canning interests and the growers' or- 

 ganization will not only pack their products, but 

 will market th^m as well. 



In order to handle the growing tonnage of figs 

 In California, a large proportion each year will 

 be diverted to canned products and the balance 

 dried as has been the case heretofore. 



The association has erected two of the most 

 modern canning plants on the Pacific Coast, as 

 finely equipped as any In the country and the 

 operations have already been started. 



The California Peach & Fig Growers is the 

 first of the big growers* organizations on the 

 Pacific Coast to erect and operate canneries for 

 their members on a large scale. The departure 

 represents an Investment of over $100,000 and 

 the two plants now In operation are located at 

 strategic points in the California fig belt, so that 

 the cost of deliveries is so equalized that every 

 section of the belt is adequately served. 



The operation is being watched with interest 

 by various associations and if successful will prob- 

 ably sound the knell of big Independent canneries 

 depending on grower organizations for their fruit. 



The association plans to put out the largest 

 variety of fig products ever offered and an ry- 

 perlmental department has been working to per- 

 fect a number of by-products from the fig industry. 

 By doing their own canning, the association 

 believes that violent fluctuations in price that 

 have characterized the fresh fig sales and the 

 scarcity of a growing demand in the United 

 States for high class fig products will be eliminated. 



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'T^HE California Prune and Apricot Growers' 

 Association, the reorganized California Prune 

 and Apricot Growers, Inc., which represents more 

 than 82 per cent of the prune acreage and 75 

 per cent of the apricot acreage of the state, of- 

 ficially came into existence Wednesday when the 

 first meeting of its voting board was held here. 



The thirty-nine members of the voting board, 

 chosen by popular election last June, elected four- 

 teen directors for the new association and directed 

 them to proceed with the incorporation of the 

 association. 



The new directors are W. A. Yerxa, Princeton; 

 Lloyd H. Wilbur, Yuba City; Henry Wheatley, 

 Napa; Mark L. MacDonald, Santa Rosa; Geo. C. 

 Alexander, Healdsburg; H. G. Coykendall, Cupcr- 

 tinoi T. S. Montgomery, San Jose; A. Kammerer, 

 San Josci J. O. Hayes, San Josej C. D. Cavallaro, 

 San Josej W. R. Kingston, Ventura; C. G. Ham- 

 ilton, Hemet; Arthur Swall, Tulare; H. C. Dun- 

 lap, at large. 



The voting board also approved the nomination 

 of W. G. Alexander of San Jose as the represen- 

 tative of Governor William D. Stephens on the 

 board of directors of the new association. 



The voting board chose Irwin E. Pumeroy of 

 Santa Clara as permanent chairman of the new 

 board and made Martin J. Madison of Hayward, 



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permanent secretary. Both of these men occupy 

 similar positions on the board of trustees of the 

 present association. Sheridan W. Baker of Santa 

 Rosa was elected permanent vice chairman of the 

 new voting board. 



The old association will continue in existence 

 until the 1921 prune and apricot crop has been 

 completely cleaned up. The first crops which will 

 be sold under the terms of the new contracts 

 held by the reorganized association will be the 

 prune and apricot crops produced in the fall of 

 1922. 



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HPHE marvelous increase in fruit and melon 

 shipments and in wealth in Imperial county 

 reads like a romance, but cold figures furnished 

 the California State Department of Agriculture by 

 F. W. White, horticultural commissioner in that 

 district, soon dispel any such idea. According to 

 these figures, in 1915 Imperial county shipped 

 $375,000 worth of tree fruits and $400,000 

 worth of cantaloupes. In 1921 it shipped $600,- 

 000 worth of tree fruits and $13,000,000 worth 

 of cantaloupes — an actual net valuation of $8,- 

 000,000 out of a section where but a few years 

 ago the fertility of the soil was questioned, the 

 transportation limited and the market so distant 

 that those who engaged In fruit raising in Im- 

 perial county were looked upon as having en- 

 gaged in a gamble. The factors that carried tlie 

 day, according to Mr. White, were water, capital 

 and perseverance. 



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T^STIMATES of California's deciduous fruit 

 production this season are: Apples, 4,802,400 

 bushels; peaches, 244,955 tons; pears, 63,000 

 tons; prunes, 62,450 tons; apricots, 51,750 tons; 

 cherries, 9,900 tons; plums, 21,700 tons. 



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IVTEW walnut acreage in California that came 

 into bearing this year was expected early in 

 the season to bring the state's production up to the 

 60,000,000-pound mark. Late frosts, however, 

 caused a large loss and cut down the yield in many 

 sections. The crop Is now estimated to be between 

 36,000,000 and 40,000,000 pounds. 



October, 1921 



Cannery Notes \ 



/^ANNED Foods Week will be held March 1 to 

 8, 1922, Instead of the first week InNovember 

 as originally announced. This decision was reached 

 following a conference of the National Canners' 

 Association held recently. The date was changed, 

 It is said, due to the fact that the later date would 

 give the members of the association an increased 



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