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The First Sure Profit to the Producer. 



THE COMMERCIAL (unit system) FRUIT EVAPORATOR 



NONE Just Like It. NONE "Just As Good." 



By demoustratiuu we prove its economical efficiency. This system will bamlle your second- 

 grade (not \\\> to standard) apples, etc., at a good profit. Plants installed in one or two units 

 — .5 and 10-ton capacity — for private use, or enlarged by additional units for commercial nse, 

 limited only by capacity of boiler. Will produce at Low Temperature a superior article of 

 dried fruits at a low cost never before thought possible. It costs less to operate, Saves 

 Time, Labor and Fuel, and is practically "fool proof." For information, address 



Commercial Evaporator Company, 



p. O. Box 222, Portland, Oregon 



Bank and Commercial References. 



What They Say 



"The Commercial 'Unit System' 

 Evaporator installed for our com- 

 pany at Salem produces a superior 

 article of dried fruits, and I con- 

 sider this system the most efficient 

 and practical evaporator now upon 

 the market." 



(Signed) FRANK W. WATERS, 

 President Salem Fruit Evaporating 

 Co., Salem, Oregon. 



"I have no hesitancy in saying 

 that the dried fruits produced by 

 the Commercial 'Unit System' Evap- 

 orator at West Salem are far supe- 

 rior to any I have ever examined, 

 and the method employed is the 

 most practical and sanitary one yet 

 devised." 



(Signed) W. H. GRABENHORST, 



Salem, Oregon. 



the labor employed. As it takes fifteen 

 people six wcelvs to evaporate a car of 

 apples, it would lequire at least 150,000 

 persons to put up tlie 10,000 cars. 



In addition to the evaporated apples, 

 there are the by-products of the evapo- 

 rator fo talce into account. Some evap- 

 orators evaporate the peelings and 

 cores which are used by large packers 

 to make jellies, while others press the 

 juice from them for vinegar purposes. 

 At our evaporator we have made about 

 25,000 gallons of juice for vinegar this 

 season, being about one gallon from 

 the waste of each box of fresh apples 

 evaporated. This reduces the cost of 

 evaporated apples materially. The 

 market for evaporated apples is lim- 

 ited. Of the 2,000 cars produced in 

 New York in 1912, 600 cars were still 

 on the market a short time ago. A 

 large part of the evaporated apples put 

 up in this country are consumed in 

 Europe, the remainder is consumed 

 mostly in our own large cities; in 

 the Prairie States; in sheep, cattle, 



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mining and logging camps; in the fish- 

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The consumption of evaporated apples 

 is curtailed to a great extent by dis- 

 honest packing. Men running camps 

 tell us that it is a common occurrence 

 when buying a box of evaporated 

 apples to find the top, bottom and sides 

 of the box lined with nice white slices 

 and the inside filled up with burned, 

 unpeeled and wormy stuff, unfit for 

 food. For this reason they prefer to 

 use prunes and peaches or canned 

 apples; while they cost more, they can 

 eat them when they get them to the 

 camp. Others use too much water in 

 packing, thinking to gain a few pounds 

 weight, and causing the whole box to 

 ferment and spoil. We evaporators 

 should see to it that our fruit is 

 packed honestly and put on the market 

 in proper shape. Then it might be well 

 to try educating the public taste to con- 

 sume it. Few people really know the 

 value of evaporated apples as a food, 

 or for that matter how to cook them. 

 If properly cooked it is hard to discern 

 the difference between stewed fresh 

 apples and stewed evaporated apples. 

 .\nd if properly evaporated and baked, 

 we defy anyone to discern the differ- 

 ence between a fresh or evaporated 

 apple pie. A short time ago we shipped 

 one hundred and fifty fifty-pound boxes 

 of evaporated apples to a large pie 

 baker. These will all be used in mak- 

 ing pies and they will undoubtedly be 

 sold as fresh-apple pies. 



We hear a great deal of talk about 

 the high cost of living, and feel it our- 

 selves as well as others, but this could 

 be lessened a great deal if people would 

 only use the right judgment in what 

 tlie\' eat. We stood in a grocery store 

 in one of the Coast cities of Washing- 

 ton, one day in May, when a lady en- 

 tered and i)inchased two dozen small, 

 shriveled held-ovcr apples, paying fifty 

 cents for them. The grocer told me 

 she was the wife of a sawmill employe. 

 This set us to thinking and wondering 

 what she could do in the way of fur- 

 nishing her table with food with those 

 ap|)les. We concluded that she might 

 make two, possibly three pies, and have 

 an apple each for the family to cat for 

 dessert. She could have purchased 



from the same grocer our own pack 

 of evaporated apples, for the same 

 money (fifty cents), enough evaporated 

 apples to equal a whole box of good, 

 fresh apples, which would have fur- 

 nished her family with pies, puddings 

 and apple sauce, all they could eat for 

 weeks. 



A great many people are asking the 

 question, what are we going to do with 

 our apples when the new orchards all 

 come into bearing? Don't smile; it is 

 not a foolish question, and more people 

 are worried over this question than are 

 willing to admit it. In times past at- 

 tempts have been made to have laws 

 passed which, if rigorously enforced, 

 would freeze out the small orchards, 

 hoping by that means to curtail the 

 supply on the market. Other places re- 

 sort to the expediency of having in- 

 spectors condemn everything coming to 

 their market from neighboring states, 

 and passing freely the home grown. 

 Shame on such expedients. Retribu- 

 tion is in store for them. If the price 



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