October, 1921 



opportunity for working out more thoroughly 

 numerous details tending to increase the success 

 of the affair. Numerous state and other meeting! 

 will he held between now and the date of the 

 annual meeting and a strong national-wide cam- 

 paign reaching consumers of canned foods in 

 every section of the country is planned. 



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'T'HE cannery at Estacada, Oregon, which was 

 incorporated August 20, has authorized an issue 

 of 5000 shares. The shares will be sold only to 

 berry growers and only stockholders' fruit will 

 be put up. The cannery, which has been in opera- 

 tion only a few weeks, has completed a pack of 

 1200 cases of berries that has been largely sold 

 in Chicago. From the sales that have been made 

 it is stated that growers will receive 5 cents a 

 pound for loganberries and 9 and 10 cents for 

 raspberries. During the evergreen blackberry sea- 

 son the man.ngcmcnt of the cannery stated that it 

 was prepared to receive 100 torn of blackberries. 



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'T'HE Newberg, Oregon, cannery made a heavy 

 run on pears this season. Three hundred 

 persons were employed and more than two cars of 

 pears shipped out daily In addition to considerable 

 other fruit. The quantity of canned goods sent ont 

 weekly w.is about four cars and this amount, it is 

 stated, could have been greatly increased if addi- 

 tional help could have been secured. 



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'T'HE Lebanon, Oregon, cannery closed down 

 September 13 for the season, with the under- 

 standing that it would stay closed unless it be- 

 came necessary for it to run part of the time to 

 close up a few of the Lite crops. The season for 

 the Lebanon institution has been a light one and 

 it has not operated to its capacity at any time, 

 notwithstanding the fact that it handled 100 tons 

 of blackberries this year. The cannery is able of 

 handling 20 tons of these berries a day, but the 

 largest run this year was 17 tons. The season for 

 these berries is usually from three to four weeks. 



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'T'HE Oregon Packing Company which opened its 

 pear and blackberry canning season at Salem, 

 Oregon, the latter part of August expects a 40- 

 day run on these fruits. During the peak of the 

 season 250 workers will eb employed with a pay- 

 roll of approximately $1,000 per day. As the de- 

 mand for canned blackberries is heavy the com- 

 pany announces that it will receive as much ton- 

 nage of this fruit as it can obtain. The opening 

 price to growers was 4 cents a pound. 



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TfMPLOYlNG 200 persons and distributing a 

 large sum of money to employes and growers 

 between now and January 1 will be the result of 

 the re-opening of the Libby, McNeil & Libby 

 cannery at Yakima, Wash., which was closed dur- 

 ing the cherry season. Officials of the cannery 

 announce that they have closed negotiations for 

 2,000 tons of pears and will take 3,000 tons of 

 cull apples if they can be obtained at reasonable 

 prices. The company is reported to have paid $40 

 a ton for pears and will pay $10 a ton for cull 

 apples. 



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BETTER FRUIT 



Prune and Apricot Growers, Inc., according to an- 

 nouncement given out by H. G. Coykendall, gen- 

 eral manager of the association. The advance 

 carried out predictions made less than two weeks 

 ago by association officials in naming the first 

 formal prices for 1921 pack prunes, that any 

 change from the prices quoted at that time would 

 be to a higher level. The new prices named by the 

 association for 1921 pack are: Sunsweet quality, 

 30-40's, 9^c bulk basis; 40-50's, 8!4c bulk basis; 

 50-60's, (,yj,c bulk basis; 60-70's, 6J4<: bulk basis. 

 Though no prices have been announced on 20-30 

 prunes by the association, prices being quoted in 

 the trade at 25c a pound flat, packed in 25-pound 

 boxes, f. 0. b. California common shipping points. 

 Prices for Growers' Brand prunes were also boost- 

 ed by the association one-quarter of a cent a pound 

 on all sizes, 30-40's to 60-70's, inclusive. Prices 

 on all sizes of Growers' Brand prunes are one- 

 quarter of a cent less than prices quoted for Sun- 

 sweet quality. Association officials announced that 

 they had made a very satisfactory booking of 

 orders for 1921 pack prunes and that they had on 

 hand sufficient orders to practically clean up the 

 heavy stocks of 1920 holdover now stored in 

 their packing houses throughout the state. Packing 



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'W/'ASHINGTON state shipped 31 carloads of 

 apples on September 16, being exceeded only 

 by California and New York, according to the 

 daily report of the federal bureau of markets, 

 Spokane. California shipped 45 carloads and New 

 York shipped 81 carloads. The total movement in 

 the United States on September 16 was 265 car- 

 loads. F. o. b. prices at Wenatchec on the 16th 

 instant were; Jonathans, extra fancy, $1.85; 

 fancy, $1.50 to $1.65. Delicious, extra fancy, $3; 

 fancy, $2.25 to $2.50. 



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T)RIC£S on all sizes of 1921 pack prunes from 



30-40's to 60-70's, inclusive, were advanced 



recently one-quarter of a cent by the California 



and shipping of these holdover stocks is now being 

 speeded as fast as possible and all stocks of 1920 

 crop prunes will probably have been shipped out 

 of the state by the middle of October. 



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A PPLE buyers are paying $12.50 a ton for cull 

 ■^ apples at Clarkston, Wash., which is said to 

 be a record price for this grade. A number of 

 contracts have been made for orchard run apples 

 delivered at the packing house at $1.10 a packed 

 box. The apple crop is the heaviest in years and 

 the quality is good. 



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A PPLE harvest in the Walla Walla valley start- 

 ed September 12, with the picking of Jona- 

 thans. Prices will run from $2.25 for extra fancy 

 to $1.75 for C grades. The largest single pack in 

 the valley will be at the Baker-Langdon orchard, 

 which is expected to yield about 250,000 boxes. 



Orders on file at local packing houses call for 

 carload shipments to points as far east as Buffalo 

 and as far south as New Orleans. 



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TVTEW YORK, and Chicago both report the first 

 arrivals of Winter Bananas, selling for $4.50 



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