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E. A. FRANZ CO., Hood River, Oregon 



co-operation of all the prune growers 

 of the Northwest in trying to select 

 a new prune. If in your orchards 

 you have certain trees that are better 

 than the rest, if you have certain 

 trees that seem to give you a better 

 product as regards yield, quality, dry- 

 ing characteristics, etc., we would like 

 to come in touch with you and have an 

 opportunity of studying the product 

 from such trees. By all working to- 

 gether we will be able to accomplish 

 a great deal. Already this past year we 

 have found a number of promising 

 prunes in various parts of the state. 

 One question which comes at once to 

 our minds in considering standardiza- 

 tion is, "Wliat standards can we 

 establish?" 



Will it be a field standard? We who 

 have had experience with prunes know 

 that there are certain prunes which 

 drop on the ground, others have to be 

 shaken from the trees, and others even 

 actually have to be pulled from the 

 trees by hand. A very careful study of 

 the condition of these different grades 

 should be made to ascertain whether or 

 not there is any standard that we can 

 make, any grading at this time. Can 

 we make grades established on such a 

 basis as difference of specific gravities? 

 This, while sounding impracticable, 

 may prove to be quite practicable. 

 Can we make a standard similar to that 

 which the grape growers of California 

 have adopted, namely, one of sugar 

 content? They have a rule that certain 

 varieties of grapes must not fall below 

 a certain sugar test, a certain sugar 

 content. Is it possible in any way to 

 do a grading in the dryers before our 

 evaporation starts? Or, if these things 

 are impossible, can we make grades as 

 soon as the fruit has been evaporated 

 and before it has been processed? Can 

 we eliminate the use of lye? At least 

 it would seem we should come to some 

 common understanding on this ques- 

 tion. What are some of the changes 

 the prune passes through in evapora- 

 tion? Are our present methods of 

 processing the best? These are some 

 of the questions that we can well ask 

 ourselves, some of the questions that 

 we need to think about very seriously; 

 and some of these questions will need 

 nuich careful investigation before they 

 can be intelligently answered. I must 

 call your attention to the fact that we 

 are not alone in the investigation of 

 the standardization of the jjrune. The 

 prune growers of Southern .\ustria and 

 Servia have started an investigation of 

 this very question, and if they should 

 beat us in the investigation and be able 

 to standardize their product before we 

 can standardize ours, they will crowd 

 us in certain markets. 



From the study I have been able to 

 make of this problem, it seems to me 

 that a certain delinite program should 

 be laid out and followed. It will be 

 necessary for the experiment station to 

 first conduct a series of investigations 

 before we can answer many of these 

 questions. Second, as fast as the inves- 

 tigations produce results there should 

 be a campaign of education among the 

 l)eople interested in prune production. 



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