January, 1921 



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which was established by the Pacific Mail 

 Steamship Company. 



The S. S. "Creole State" sailed for San 

 Francisco from Baltimore on December 27th. 

 Arriving at San Francisco on January 15th, 

 she will load cargo, and on .January 26th will 

 be dispatched on the Pacific Mail's direct ex- 

 press communication with the Philippines and 

 India. The S. S. "Wolverine State" will sail 

 from San Francisco on February 25th. Direct 

 express communication to Manila will be made 

 by the new liners in 22 davs. The time from 

 Calcutta will be 34 days, "the "Creole State" 

 and "Wolverine State" making the fastest time 

 in history of Pacific trade with the Far East. 

 Leaving San Francisco the ships will reach 

 Honolulu on the afternoon of the sixth day; 

 the Philippines in 22 calendar days, and arrive 

 at San Francisco from Manila in 20 calendar 

 days; Singapore will be reached in 28 calendar 

 days from California; Colombo in 34 days; 

 Calcutta in 39 days; and will make San Fran- 

 cisco, homebound, in 34 days, from India. 

 Sailings will be maintained every 30 days 

 from San Francisco, excepting when Sunday 

 interferes when sailings will be on the Satur- 

 day preceding. 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruit Growing 



Cheering words were recently brought to 

 Northwestern apple growers by A. B. Hull of 

 Gasport, N. Y., production manager of the 

 Friend Sprayer Company, who visited F. A. 

 Olmstead and A. B. Bennett who are the Ore- 

 gon and Southern Washington distributors for 

 this company. According to the Hood River 

 Glacier, orchardists of the Northwest, he says, 

 should not be depressed over the situation 

 that now applies in the apple market. 



"It must be remembered," says Mr. Hull, 

 "that the big eastern commercial orcharding 

 districts this year produced a record breaking 

 apple crop. As a result all eastern points of 

 distribution have been glutted as never before 

 in history. Naturally, the apple market has 

 dropped. It is a wonder that it has held to 

 the point maintained. Even as I was leaving 

 the East, however, this heavy glut of barrel 

 stock and bulk apples was being cleaned up 

 and the outlook was much brighter for the 

 high class box product of the Northwest. It 

 has been the experience of the past that big 

 crops have never repeated, and we may expect 

 a smaller or moderate crop of apples in the 

 East next season, whereas the West is due for 

 a bumper yield. I find that most of the rep- 

 resentative Northwestern growers are viewing 

 the orcharding situation from a general angle, 

 and are not allowing the present condition to 

 alarm them. Growers are going right ahead 

 in laying out appropriations for better equip- 

 ment, and care of fruit tracts will not decline. 

 We are looking forward to a much increased 

 business. 



Losses from freezing of Northwestern apples 

 were extremely heavy last winter. During De- 

 cember and January, 1919-20, claims of £3,000,- 

 000 were presented to railroads by apple ship- 

 pers of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Pre- 

 vention of loss by freezing in transit seems to 

 depend largely on improved methods of heat- 

 ing cars. Serious losses occur also in ship- 

 ments of potatoes. Information and advice on 

 lining, heating, loading box cars for potatoes 

 in winter have been supplied by the U. S. Bu- 

 reau of Markets to shippers and producers and 

 the methods recommended have been extensive- 

 ly adopted. A heating system suitable for in- 

 stallation in ventilator and refrigerator cars 

 has been designed by investigators of the U. 

 S. Bureau of Markets, and has been approved 

 by various railroads as a standard for the 

 equipment of refrigerator cars under condi- 

 tions which warrant the building and opera- 

 tion of these cars. The experimental care 

 equipped with this system of heating will be 

 used in comparison with cars equipped with 

 portable heaters. 



The big stride that the fruit industry in Ore- 

 gon has made was called attention to recently 

 by W. s. Brown, chief in horticulture at the 

 Oregon Agricultural College, in an address re- 

 cently before the Western Society of Natural- 

 ists which met at the college at Corvallis. 



"From 1850 to 1870 fruit was so scarce in 

 Oregon." said Professor Brown, "that fabulous 

 prices were received, one box of apples hav- 

 ing been sold for as high as $75, while in 1855, 

 0000 bushels of apples sold for prices ranging 

 from S20 to $30 a bushel. In 1909 there were 

 -1.000,423 bushels of fruit in the state, valued 

 at $3,340,000, while in 1919 there was pro- 

 duced, according to the best information ob- 

 tainable some 9.oon,ooo bushels of orchard 

 fruit, with a valuation of approximately ?1G,- 

 000,1100. The total fruit crop of the state for 



1920 will run not far from $25,000,000 to $30,- 

 000,000. There are many vexing problems 

 ahead of the industry, and there always will 

 be, but taking everything into consideration, 

 the outlook seems very fair." 



The use of cider in the home by its manu- 

 facturer, even after it has become intoxicating 

 is lawful and without the bounds of the pro- 

 hibition enforcement act, according to an opin- 

 ion submitted by Attorney General Palmer 

 and recently made public. The opinion is in 

 conflict with the regulations of the bureau of 

 internal revenue which states home made cider 

 must be "non-intoxicating in fact," although 

 not necessarily containing less than one-half 

 of one per cent of alcohol. The Anti-Saloon 

 League, it is reported, has asked the attorney 

 general to reconsider his ruling on cider, de- 

 claring that the eighteenth amendment pro- 

 hibits the manufacturing of intoxicating liquors 

 for beverage purposes in the home or else- 

 where and that Congress fixed the alcoholic 

 content of fruit juices for home use at one- 

 half of one per cent. 



Cannery Notes 



Additions of two new departments, jam and 

 preservers and vegetable canning, to the A. Ru- 

 pert Company, incorporated, of North Puyal- 

 lup, was announced recently at Puyallup, 



Wash., at a banquet when 125 representative 

 business men and berry growers from the 

 valley were guests of the company. Repre- 

 sentatives of the Puyallup Valley Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Union and the Pacific Berry Growers' As- 

 sociation were also present. W. A. Frost, 

 president of the A. Rupert Company, to meet 

 whom the banquet was arranged, made the an- 

 nouncement offering for sale to the berry 

 growers and business men stock in the en- 

 larged corporation. This is the first depart- 

 ure of the Rupert company into the jam and 

 preserve business. 



The Altoona Packing Company has plans 

 well under way and construction started on 

 a large modern cold storage plant, which it 

 is building at Astoria. 



There will be many important topics of dis- 

 cussion at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of 

 the National Canners Association to be held 

 at Atlantic City, Jan. 17-21. The Canning Ma- 

 chinery & Supplies Association, and the Na- 

 tional Canned Foods and Dried Fruit Brokers' 

 Association will assemble at the same time. 

 A new feature to be introduced at the 1921 

 convention, and of particular interest to the 

 consumer, will be a canned foods demonstra- 

 tion. Because of the unsurpassed facilities 

 afforded by the great pier space the exhibit of 

 machinery used in canning, a display made 



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