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BETTER FRUIT 



EFFICIENCY 



An organization along broad and liberal lines for a 

 nation wide, safe and sane distribution of Tree and 

 Vine Fruits. Our services are available through 

 our associate members to any and all growers and 

 shippers of fruit. 



MEMBERS 



Geo. H. Anderson Newcastle Fruit Co. 



A. Block Fruit Co. Penryn Fruit Co. 



Earl Fruit Co. F. B. McKevitt Co. 



Geo. D. Kellogg & Son Pioneer Fruit Co. 



Producers Fruit Co. 

 Schnabel Bros. Co. 

 Silva & Bergtholdt Co. 

 \'acaville Fruit Co. 



California Fruit Distributors 



CHAS. E. VIRDEN, General Manager 



SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 



\ NEW BERRY RECORD MADE 



From 5 Acres Between Apple Trees 

 in Hood River 51300 lA'Orth Sold. 



Rich ill hig-h grade organic nitrogen 



BEAVER BRAND ANIMAL FERTILIZERS 



"A Fertilizer tor Every Crop" 



Supplies your land with the constituent elements that makes fruit growing 

 profitable. A.M.Gooch's success this year can be duplicated by \ OU next 

 year if you use this PROVEN fertilizer for fruit growers. Booklet tree. 



PREPARED BY 



UNION MEAT COMPANY 



NORTH PORTLAND, OREGON 



HOOD RITER.OREGOE 

 June 23, 1914 



inn on meat compaht 



HORTH PORTLAJJD.CRE. 



GEHTLEMEK:- ^ , . 



Would say I used vour fertilizer on my strawberries 

 I thlni I realized fully fifty percent more terries 

 by its use, (Signed) A.M. Goooh 



September 



before it is sealed over that it bleeds 

 badly, thus losing much of the flavor 

 of the apple and will not have as 

 white nor as nice an appearance when 

 cooked. 



The type of evaporator we like best, 

 and the kind we are using, is con- 

 structed in such a way that the cold 

 air is admitted at the bottom and 

 passes through past the furnace and 

 hot pipes, becoming thoroughly heated 

 and dried, so that nothing but dry air 

 reaches the fruit. The fruit is spread 

 on trays placed in the kiln in a slant- 

 ing position, so as to permit the dry 

 air to pass through between them, both 

 over and under the fruit, thus absorb- 

 ing and carrying off the moisture with- 

 out causing the moisture from one tray 

 to pass through the fruit in the other 

 trays. This causes the slices of apple 

 to seal over quickly and stops the 

 bleeding, thus retaining all of the nat- 

 ural flavor. To pare our apples we use 

 the Rival apple parer, fitted with the 

 slicing attachment. This machine 

 pares, cores and slices the apple and 

 delivers it into an incline shoot, which 

 carries it to the trimmer and spreader, 

 who trims out all bad parts and spreads 

 the apples onto the trays. The tray is 

 then put into the bleacher, after which 

 it is placed into the evaporator and re- 

 mains there until it is fully cured. The 

 disadvantages of this type of evapo- 

 rator are that it requires more labor 

 to operate than the holp-kiln type, and 

 it costs a great deal more to construct. 

 The advantages are: It is a general 

 evaporator, — in it we evaporate every 

 kind of fruit and vegetable, also eggs. 

 The quality of the product is superior 

 to that produced by any other type so 

 far as we have seen. The other two 

 types of apple evaporators are the so- 

 called stack evaporator type and the 

 like-fresh type. Both are good and by 

 some thought best of all, but we prefer 

 the other two types. 



There are a number of large evapo- 

 rators which operate on apples in this 

 state. We have two in Yamhill County, 

 one at Amity and our own at Dayton. 

 Resides these, there are a number of 

 small evaporators in different parts of 

 the county. The output of our evapo- 

 rator this season will be about 120,000 

 pounds of evaporated apples, equal to 

 about 25,000 boxes, or 31 cars of fresh 

 apples. We do not know the capacity 

 of other evaporators nor the amount 

 of the annual production in this state, 

 but New York State produced 2,000 car- 

 loads of evaporated apples in 1912. 

 This was equal to 20.000 cars of fresh 

 apples; as California. Missouri, Ar- 

 kansas, Michigan and Pennsylvania are 

 all large producers of evaporated 

 apples and will not fall far behind 

 New York, we believe it is safe to say 

 that not less than 10,000 cars of evapo- 

 rated apples, equal to 100,000 cars of 

 fresh apples, were produced in the 

 I'nitod States in 1912. As very few 

 apples, other than culls, which would 

 otherwise go to waste, get to the evap- 

 orator, we can readily see what an im- 

 jiortant place in a community is filled 

 by the evaporator. Another feature is 



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