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February, 1921 



or plum is wrapped in tissue paper, and then 

 bedded in a nest of excelsior. The receivers 

 state that prices will be ?10@12 per box for 

 either peaches or plums. The fruit is mostly 

 the same varieties grown in the United States, 

 especially in California, the peaches being all 

 Alexanders, while the plums are of the large 

 red and purple varieties so well known in 

 this country, the bulk of this shipment being 

 Santa Rosas. Later, it is said, Wickson, Kel- 

 sey and other familiar varieties of plums will 

 be coming. Although the shipment had been 

 on the way for fully 30 days, the fruit showed 

 excellent condition. 



The rally in sterling exchange will benefit 

 Northwest apple growers, according to Walter 

 R. Woolpert, of the Dan Wuille Co. at Hood 

 River. With exchange at ?3.73, according to 

 Mr. Woolpert, growers here will net $1.88 per 

 box for all apples sold at the control price of 

 23 shillings, 6 pence. 



"We have received no notification," says Mr. 

 Woolpert, "that the British government will 

 lift price restrictions on March 31, as an- 

 nounced from other sources. That would be 

 too late to be of any benefit to us. Indeed, I 

 cannot see how the lifting of control would 

 benefit us any at present, for it is found diffi- 

 cult to keep apples at the control maximum 



because of such quantities going on the auc- 

 tion. Practically all Hood River Newtowns, 

 however, have to date, brought the maximum. 

 As for the arrival of Australian apples, I do 

 not see any cause for alarm. The Hood River 

 crop will be well sold before they reach Eng- 

 land." 



Cannery Notes 



There are 32 canning establishments in 

 Czechoslovakia, very few of which, if any, 

 having canning machinery such as is used in 

 the United States, is the information contained 

 in a report from Trade Commissioner Gerin- 

 ger, of Prague. It is believed that a potential 

 market exists there for canning machinery, 

 and Mr. Geringer believes it would be well for 

 American interests to send their catalogs and 

 price lists to his office, w : here they may be 

 shown to interested parties. Material addressed 

 to Mr. Vladimir A. Geringer, in care of the 

 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 

 Washington, D. C, will be forwarded to that 

 office. 



The Northwestern Transportation Company 

 whose boats ply between The Dalles and Port- 

 land on the Columbia River, reports that from 



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Hood River alone approximately 60,000 boxes 

 of apples were moved to Portland and Van- 

 couver, Washington, the past season by river 

 steamers. A big proportion of the tonnage 

 was consigned to canneries, one plant in Van- 

 couver handling 25,000 boxes of canning grade 

 apples. 



DEHYDRATING PLANT CLOSES. 

 The Dalles Kings Food Products plant has 

 closed its plant for the season. According to 

 C. C. Ross, manager, the plant has enjoyed the 

 biggest year of its history, having handled 

 2,250 tons of apples alone. The Libby, McNeil 

 & Libby canning plant will close as soon as 

 the Maraschino cherry run is over. Both will 

 open as soon as the harvest of spring vege- 

 tables begins. 



ECHOS FROM THE ANNUAL CONVENTION 

 OF NATIONAL CANNERS. 



The fourteenth annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Canners' Association, meeting simul- 

 taneously with the Canning Machinery and 

 Supplies Association and the National Canned 

 Foods and Dried Fruit Brokers' Association at 

 Atlantic City was one of the best in the history 

 of these organizations. The registration was 

 about 3,000. 



The newly elected officers are as follows: 

 Harry P. Strasbaugh of Aberdeen, Md., was 

 elected president of the National Canners' As- 

 sociation; James Moore of Rochester, N. Y., 

 was elected first vice-president, and Frank E. 

 Gorrell, Washington, D. C, secretary-treas- 

 urer. The office of second vice-president was 

 created and it will later be filled. The follow- 

 ing new directors were elected: W. E. El- 

 well, Portland, Me.; Albert Horner, Honolulu, 

 Hawaii; L. E. Jastremski, Houma, La.; James 

 Moore, Rochester, N. Y. ; G. A. Eastwood, Chi- 

 cago, III.; Richard Stringham, Woods Cross, 

 Utah; Ralph Polk, Mound City, 111.; John M. 

 Swing, Ridgely, Md.; B. F. Moomaw, Roanoke, 

 Va. ; E. F. Trego, Hoopeston, 111.; Bismark 



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