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BETTER FRUIT 



July, 1020 



The office of standardization of the Cali- 

 fornia Department of Agriculture recently 

 caused the arrest of 32 strawberry growers 

 who failed to pack their fruit according to the 

 state's regulations. The court imposed fines 

 varying from $35 to $50 on the offending 

 growers. 



Strawberry growers in Alameda County are 

 very much concerned over the appearance 

 there of the strawberry root weevil. This pest 

 has become so serious there that the California 

 Department of Agriculture has assigned sev- 

 eral of the department's experts to stamp it 

 out. It is claimed by California experts that 

 the infestation was brought into that state by 

 strawberry plants imported from the North- 

 west several years ago. 



California will be one of the few states that 

 will have a bumper peach crop this year. Esti- 

 mates at the present time place it as being 

 fully as large as it was last year when 2,773 

 cars were shipped. Optimists estimate the 

 yield at a still higher figure and sav that they 

 expect to see 3,000 cars shipped to eastern 

 markets. 



Shortage of cans and the high price of sugar 

 it is claimed will result in a short pack of 

 fruit being put up in California this year. Ac- 

 cording to the statements of canners a pack 

 that will not exceed 75 per cent of the normal 

 output will be put out. Prices for canning 

 fruit are also considerably higher than last 

 year, a condition that canners say will have 

 its influence in limiting the pack. Growers it 

 is reported are asking $65 to $100 a ton for 

 pears; $110 a ton for peaches and $100 a ton 

 for apricots. 



Cannery Notes 



Having leased the building formerly occu- 

 pied by the Albany Fruit Juice Company at 

 Albany, Oregon, R. V. Foreman and C. E. 

 Pratt will engage in the manufacture of vine- 

 gar. 



A cannery plant which will be ready for 

 operation August 1 is being constructed at Oro- 

 ville, Washington. The new plant which is 

 located in the center of a large fruit growing 

 district is largely financed by the business men 

 of Oroville. F. W. Fraser, formerly of Canada, 

 has accepted the position of manager. The 

 main product that will be handled by the 

 cannery this season will be tomatoes, the out- 

 put of 200 acres having been contracted for 

 with local growers. 



The new cannery and drying plant of the 

 F. A. Kurtz company which has been com- 

 pleted at Salem, Oregon, expects to handle a 

 large tonnage of prunes and other fruits this 

 season. The new establishment is a complete 

 two line cannery with a drying room that is 

 said to have one of the largest capacities in 

 the state. 



Notwithstanding the light crop of cherries 

 the Libby, McNeil & Libby cannery at Yakima, 

 Washington, expects to can in the neighbor- 

 hood of 400 tons of cherries this year. The 

 company estimates that to do this it will need 

 150,000 pounds of sugar and has purchased 

 this amount for its season's run. It is reported 

 that the amount that the company has invested 

 in sugar for its Yakima plant is $37,000. 



The cannery of the Oregon Packing Com- 

 pany at Lewiston, Idaho, the largest in that 

 section was overhauled early in the season 

 and is now engaged in putting up its cherry 

 pack. Although the cherry crop is consider- 

 ably below normal in the Lewiston district the 

 company has prepared for a busy season in 

 canning cherries and other fruits. 



The A. Rupert Company, Inc., which started 

 the erection of a cannery at McMinnville, Ore- 

 gon, this year, announces that the establish- 

 ment will be ready for operation when the 

 canning season opens. A feature that the Ru- 

 pert Company has adopted in connection with 

 its canning business at McMinnville is that it 

 is furnishing seed to growers of canning prod- 

 ucts at cost. 



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