February, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 33 



Houssels, San Francisco, Cal. ; Fred Kendall, 

 Portland, Oregon; Luscius E. Hires, Salem, N. 

 J.; Russell B. Kingman, Orange, N. J. 



ONE OF THE RESOLUTIONS. 



Whereas the canning industry, by reason of 

 its seasonal character has need of large credit 

 accommodation in the normal production and 

 marketing of its products, and 



Whereas in case the purchase of canned 

 foods in 1921 by future contracts is greatly re- 

 duced, the canners will need unusual credit 

 accommodations, if canned foods are to be 

 produced and carried by the canner until 

 they are needed by the consumers, and 



Whereas, this economic essential was ad- 

 mirably stated by the Lever food act, when, in 

 formulating the principles of food conserva- 

 tion, it urged the development of surplus 

 products in the season of natural maximum 

 production, to be carried over into the season 

 of scant or no production, therefore be it 



Resolved, that the peculiar condition of the 

 canning industry be fully presented to the 

 federal reserve banks and every possible ef- 

 fort be made to secure their cooperation in 

 extending to the canning industry the full 

 measure of credit to which it is entitled. 



The National Canners' Association assembled 

 in its annual convention, representing as it 

 does an industry with an output of an ap- 

 proximate valuation of .$800,000,000 annually, 

 employing approximately 250,000 people, here- 

 by resolves that it be the sense of this con- 

 vention that the ways and means committee 

 of the House of Representatives be requested 

 to give due consideration to the depressed 

 condition of the industry and to the needs of 

 its various branches. Under the present low 

 import duties, canned foods are coming into 

 this country in increasing quantities from 

 countries where their industries operate upon 

 a lower scale of wages not compatible with the 

 standards of living enjoyed in this country. 



We earnestly recommend a duty placed upon 

 all imported canned foods sufficient to offset 

 the difference in the cost of production. This 

 recommendation is made not merely as a 

 means of protection to the industry and as a 

 source of revenue to our government, but as 

 a means for the negotiation for more reason- 

 able tariffs in most foreign countries which 

 now levy prohibitive tariffs upon the products 

 of our industry. 



It is believed that ill the framing of our new 

 tariff laws due consideration should be given 

 to the necessity for devising reciprocal fea- 

 tures which will enable some competent 

 agency of the government to meet promptly the 

 rapidly changing conditions abroad whereby 

 countries now enjoying a ready market in 

 this country may be required to lower un- 

 reasonable and prohibitive tariffs now levied 



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in many foreign countries against canned 

 foods and many other products requiring an 

 export market. 



Plans are under way for the erection in 

 Yuba City, California, of a new cannery. Sut- 

 ter County is the largest canning peach dis- 

 trict of the state and annually ships out 2,000 

 cars of canning peaches, in addition to those 

 canned by local plants. 



0. A. C. Horticultural Notes 



COST OF EFFECTIVE SPRAYING. 

 The cost of a season's effective spraying in 

 Hood River orchards 13 to 14 years old from 

 1916 to 1919 was about $45 an acre. Growers 

 employing the average usage of spray per tree 

 each application obtained uniformly good re- 

 sults. — Experiment Station, O. A. C. 



Spreaders for improving the covering and 

 sticking power of spray solutions are casein- 

 ate, glue, gelatine, soap bark and oil emulsions, 

 named in order of their efficiency and cost of 

 preparation. Directions for preparation and use 

 are found in the bulletin, "Insecticide Investiga- 

 tions," for free distribution. — Entomology De- 

 partment, O. A. C. 



The total estimated annual millage levies 

 will amount to $5,752,370.47 of which O. A. C.'s 

 share will be $1,427,430.41. 



Many rainfall farmers of western Oregon 

 have gone back to the intermountain regions 

 of Montana and Idaho looking for new land, 

 forgetting the marshes and tidelands in their 

 own back yard, which, if drained, become the 

 most profitable lands in the state for such 

 crops as garden truck and vegetables, and 

 small fruit and berries. Drainage specialists 

 will help them find out when and how the 

 lands may be reclaimed. — Experiment Station, 

 O. A. C. 



The physical value of products turned out 

 by Oregon boys and girls in club work in 

 1920 was .$111,581.60, more than half of which 

 are clear profit. The profit balance was $55,- 

 912.90, as shown by the reports of H. C. Sey- 

 mour, state club leader. 



A. G. Bouquet, professor of vegetable garden- 

 ing, spoke to the horticultural seminar on 

 "Horticulture in England." He brought out 

 the fact that there is a close connection be- 

 tween Great Britain and the United States in 

 horticultural lines due to our exports. Sixty 

 per cent of the apples exported are sent to 

 Great Britain. The English growers are striv- 

 ing by means of the box pack, not before used 

 to any extent in England, to obtain better rec- 

 ognition of their own fruit. Gooseberries and 

 plums are used as dessert fruits by most 

 Englishmen, according to Professor Bouquet. 



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