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BETTER FRUIT 



August, 1920 



good, too. The Jonathan apples are most in 

 evidence now. We think the tlavor not quite 

 equal to ours but it may well be that from 

 some other district they may fully equal our 

 best. They have all the pests we have and not 

 as cold winters or as hot summers to help 

 fight them, but the best skill is being used in 

 mastering all their horticultural difficulties." 



According to English apple exporters who 

 have looked the situation over the market for 

 American apples in Great Britain this year 

 should show considerable improvement. Rep- 

 resentatives of several of these firms who have 

 been on the Coast express the opinion that 

 the high prices which are obtained for Ameri- 

 can fruit in England will result in marketing 



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says the Good Judge 



Men are getting away 

 from the big chew idea. 

 They find more satisfac- 

 tion in a little of the Real 

 Tobacco Chew than they 

 ever got from a big chew 

 of the ordinary kind. 

 Costs you less, too — the 

 full, rich tobacco taste 

 lasts so much longer. 

 Any man who uses the 

 Real Tobacco Chew will 

 tell you that. 



Put up in two styles 



RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco 



W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco 



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Gravity and Power Conveyors 



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a greater quantity of better quality fruit there 

 leaving the inferior stuff to be marketed at 

 home. 



Fearing an unprecedented car shortage apple 

 growers in the east are reported to be taking 

 steps to market a good deal of their fruit by 

 motor truck lines. In many of these sections 

 where the hauls are comparatively short it is 

 believed that the ship by truck movement will 

 work out very successfully. 



Cannery Notes 



The Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association 

 recently acquired possession of the cannery 

 and packing plant located at Sutherlin. The 

 plant is a large one and in addition to the 

 cannery is equipped with a prune drying and 

 packing outfit, a juice plant and a lime-sul- 

 phur manufacturing plant. The association is 

 also building driers and packing plants at 

 Carlton, Forest Grove. Riddle, Myrtle Creek 

 and Sheridan. At Eugene where the plant of 

 the Eugene Fruit Growers Association is located 

 which is affilitated with the Oregon Growers' 

 Association, the Eugene establishment has 

 been greatly enlarged and is now one of the 

 most complete in the Northwest. 



The cannery of the Montesano Packing Com- 

 pany was opened recently for the season. The 

 establishment expects to put up 4,000 cases of 

 beans this year. 



A cherry grower living at The Dalles, Oregon 

 is reported to have marketed one motor truck 

 load of cherries at a cannery there this year 

 for which he received $900. 



The Silverton Canning Company, of Silver- 

 ton, Oregon, is ready for operation. The 

 plant of the company is a new one and is 

 equipped to handle all kinds of fruits. 



The Hillsboro Canning Company, of Hills- 

 boro, Oregon, which has put its establishment 

 into running condition at a cost of $150,000 

 now has a plant that covers a space of ground 

 368 by 80 feet. The plant is equipped to 

 handle a very large tonnage and expects to 

 put up 30,000 cases of fruits this year. 



The American Can Company has purchased 

 a large building site in the manufacturing dis- 

 trict of Portland, Oregon, and is preparing to 

 erect a $1,500,000 factory in that city. The 

 building will be 89 feet wide by over 400 

 feet long, three stories high and will be con- 

 structed of reinforced concrete. The erection 

 of the plant in Portland is due to the heavy 

 demand for cans for canning purposes that 

 has developed in the Northwest during the 

 past two years. 



Two new canneries in Skagit County, Wash- 

 ington, began opeiating this month. These are 

 the Burlington Cannery Company, at Burling- 

 ton, and the Skagit Canning Company at Sedro 

 Wooley. A general line of fruits and berries 

 will be canned by both and the cannery at 

 Sedro Wooley expects to utilize both beets and 

 string beans in addition. Both plants have 

 gone to considerable expense to have their 

 equipments modern in every detail. In addi- 

 tion to the above, the W. H. Pride Company, 

 of Bellingham, and the Everett Fruit Products 

 Company, of Everett, Washington, expect to 

 buy considerable fruit in Skagit County and 

 ship to their respective canneries. 



That the inspection work recently started by 

 the National Canners Association will be a 

 great thing, not only for the canning industry 

 in Oregon, but also for the housewives, is the 

 opinion of Ernest H. Weigand, of the horticul- 

 tural products department of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College, who was recently ap- 

 pointed director of the inspection service of 

 the association, in Oregon. A preliminary sur- 

 vey of 10 Oregon canneries has already been 

 made under the direction of Professor Weigand 

 —those of New berg. McMinnville, Spring Brook, 

 Gresham, Falls City, Lebanon, Junction City, 

 Eugene Fruit Growers' Association, Crcswell, 

 and Roseburg. The inspection is entirely vol- 

 untary on the part of the canneries which pay 

 a certain fee per case for all cases packed. 

 These canneries agree to live up to the rules 

 and regulations of the Inspection service, ac- 

 cording to Professor Weigand. Eventually 

 daily inspection will be made, adequate force 

 being emplovcd to handle the work. AH fruit 

 received at the phral will be inspected and 

 the entire process of canning observed by the 

 Inspectors. 



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