Juhj, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



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i^OVERNOR WILLIAM D. STEPHENS rc- 

 ^^ cently telegraphed President Harding that 

 thousands of acres of food in California, espe- 

 cially potatoes, will not be harvested unless some 

 relief is forthcoming in the matter of freight re- 

 ductions. Governor Stephens stated in his telegr.im 

 that the state's vegetable industry is "slowly but 

 furely being strangled to de:ith by what seems to 

 the producers to be prohibitive rates." 



Cannery Notes 



W/" E. ST. JOHN in charge nf the big plant of 

 " • the Oregon Growers' Co-operative .A.ssocin- 

 tion at Sutherlin, Oregon, announces that canning 

 machinery is being installed in the main building, 

 and everything made ready to handle the big 

 loganberry crop in the valley and vicinity. 



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/California, the greatest of all our states in 

 the matter of the canning of fruits, canned In 

 1920, fruit of approximately $1 10,000,000 in 

 value, while the little island of Hawaii put up a 

 pack of pineapples alone to the value of $31,- 

 000,000. 



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TT F. DAVIDSON, president of the recently 

 formed Oregon Canning Company, operating 

 five canneries, in speaking of the cannery situation 

 says: "Marketing conditions this year do not war- 

 rant a capacity pack. For this reason we will be 

 unable to take all the fruit offered, but will handle 

 all we can with safety, and will pay the growers 

 as much as we can afford under the existing con- 

 ditions." 



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T^HE Hood River cannery has been running 

 strawberries and will handle cherries, pears 

 and peaches as they come along. 



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''pHE Idaho Canneries, Inc., at Payette, canned 

 16,700 cases of fruits and vegetables in 1920. 

 The management reports a production plan for 

 77,000 cases this year, warranted they say, by the 

 ready demand for their pack last season. 



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A S a result of an agreement between creditors 

 "^^ of the A. Rupert Company and the recently 

 organized Oregon Canning Company, at least two 

 of the big Rupert Company plants in the Wil- 

 lamette valley will be operated this season. There 

 is a possibility of more than two of the plants 

 being operated. This means that a much larger 

 proportion of Oregon's fruit crop will find a mar- 

 ket this year. The amount handled by the plants 

 will depend largely upon the growers. The two 

 plants which will definitely begin operations arc 

 located at New berg and Leban/m. They have a 

 combined packing capacity of about 400,000 cases 

 of fruit and vegetables and are the largest of the 

 Rupert canneries. Negotiations are also under way 

 for the operating of the McMinnville and Rose- 

 burg plants and tor suble.ising the plant at Spring- 

 brook. The Oregon Canning Company controls all 

 five of the plants. In addition the company has 

 acquired the Rupert brands and has taken over the 

 Rupert office, plant staffs and Its nation-wide 

 distributing organization. H. F. Davidson of Hood 

 River Is president of the company. 



Oregon Grov^ers' 



Association Notes 



At a meeting i.f the Oregon Growers' Co-opera- 

 tive Associ.ilinn members last month, a price 

 of one cent a pound for cherry picking this season 

 was unanimously agreed upon. This price was voted 

 for loganberry picking also, but no definite deci- 

 sion was arrived at as to offering a bonus to 

 pickers who stayed through the entire season. Last 

 year many school children were able to make as 

 high as $6.00 a day, with a picking price up to 

 4 cents a pound, more than the berries are bring- 

 ing this year. 



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f^ E. RAMP, manager for the Oreg-on growers 

 at Dallas, reports that many prune orchards 

 in the district south of Independence, will produce 

 heavy crops of large-sized fruit. Earlier reports 

 from most of the prune districts were to the effect 

 that there was a universally short crop in all dis- 

 tricts, so that Mr. Ramp's findings are encour- 

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