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September, iq?o 



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 packages of fruit securely packed and bound. 



The International Apple Shippers' conven- 

 tion, held in Chicago during the middle of 

 August, was one of the most largely attended 

 in the history of the organization. The new 

 officers of the association are: E. T. Butter- 

 worth, of Philadelphia, president; D. N. 

 Mi nick, Chambersburg, Pa., vice-president; 

 George W. Davidson, New Orleans, treasurer; 

 R. G. Phillips, Rochester, N. Y., secretary. 

 The executive committee are: \V. L. Wagner, 

 Chicago, chairman; Wayne M. French, New 

 York ; J. J. Castellini, Cincinnati ; E. H. 

 Neustadtl, Milwaukee; Edgar W. J. Hearty, 

 Roston. 



An announcement from Consul General Skin- 

 ner at London is to the effect that the British 

 Food Controller has released both domestic 

 and foreign apples from price control in 

 Great Britain from August 1 to November 14, 

 after which the maximum control retail price 

 will be resumed, at 20 cents instead of 18 

 cents per pound. A new schedule of whole- 

 sale prices on fruit is said to be in course of 

 preparation. 



The New York State Evaporators' Associa- 

 tion, which handles one of the largest outputs 

 of dried apples in the country, looks forward 

 to a successful season, according to a state- 

 ment made by The Evaporator. It is not be- 

 lieved, however, that although there is a much 

 larger prospective crop of apples for drying, 

 that prices will rule much lower than last 

 year, when 1 5to 18 cents per pound was paid 

 for the loose product. 



A noted visitors to the Northwest during the 

 month of August, who is interested in the fruit 

 industry, was Emilio Schenk, professor in an 

 agricultural institution in Brazil. Professor 

 Schenk, who visited Southern Oregon, Hood 

 River and other sections, spent his time study- 

 ing apple and pear culture. He investigated 

 the blight resistant pear stocks, which Pro- 

 fessor F. C. Reimer is developing at Talent, 

 Oregon. Professor Schenk made the statement 

 that Brazil has 100 different kinds of pears 

 and apples under cultivation, but that few 

 commercial orchards have been developed so 

 far. The citrus fruit industry is largely en- 

 gaging the attention of fruit growers in that 

 country at the present time, according to Pro- 

 fesso Schenk. 



Cannery Notes 



The Rupert cannery at Lebanon, Oregon, 

 which this year was greatly enlarged, will 

 handle a large tonnage of canning products 

 in that district. The company is stimulating 

 the interest of ranchers there in planting fruits 

 and produce and expects that its intitution at 

 Lebanon will eventually be one of the largest 

 if not the largest in the state. It receives its 

 products from a widespread territory around 

 Lebanon as well as shipments from other sec- 

 tions of the Willamette valley. A large quan- 

 tity of loganberries were put up this year and 

 its output of blackberries is expected to be 

 one of the largest in the state. 



The cannery of the Puyallup and Sumner 

 Fruit Growers' Canning Company at Albany 

 successfully opened its canning season during 

 July. The establishment, which is a large 

 and modern one, employed 200 girls during 

 the height of the season. Before the black- 

 berry season closes it expects to handle 500 

 tons of this fruit. 



About eight tons of loganberries and an 

 equal quantity of cherries was put up daily 

 by the plant of the Brownsville Canning Com- 

 pany at Forest Grove this year, during the 

 season for these fruits. 



The cannery of the Eugene Fruit Growers* 

 Association is reported to have canned a cherry 

 crop of more than 2.000,000 pounds this sea- 

 son. This is said to hi' the largest pack of 

 cherries ever put up by a fruit cannery in 

 Oregon. Eugene growers are reported to have 

 received about $250,000 for their cherries this 



The plant of Libby. McNeil & Libby at Yak- 

 ima, Wash., established a national record for 

 the quantity of cherries canned this season, 

 according to G. R. Kile, superintendent, who 

 says over 739 tons of cherries were handled, 

 as compared with 060 tons in 1018. 



Ten tons of cherries a day is the canning 

 reord this season of the cannery at Coeur 

 d'Alene, Idaho. 



At the price of loganberries this year, grow- 

 ers in the Willamette vallej section of Oregon 

 received large returns from the canneries for 

 their product. It is reported that for one 

 week's delivery of loganberries a grower in 

 "this district received a check for $10,863. 



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