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(iperative by-products plant in tlic 

 Northwest. Truman Butler is vice- 

 vice-president and manager of the But- 

 ler Banking Company of Hood River, 

 Oregon. IX A. Snyder is a banker and 

 the pro])rietor of a successful private 

 evaporating plant and cannery at Day- 

 ton, Oregon. J. H. Holt is manager of 

 the Eugene Co-operative Cannery at 

 Eugene. Oregon. M. J. Higley is man- 

 ager of the Southern Idaho sub-central 

 'if the North Pacifle Fruit Distributors. 



The by-products meeting brought out 

 the largest attendance of any of the 

 fruit congresses, close to 500 promient 

 growers, by-products men and scien- 

 tific experts being present. A feature 

 was the number of women and several 

 (if these participated in the discussions. 

 The papers on topics relating to home 

 canning, read while the committee was 

 deliberating, proved of special interest 

 and the speakers were called upon to 

 answer many questions. 



Professor C. C. Vincent of the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho, Moscow, told of ex- 

 periences with a home-canning plant 

 for three years. The investigations 

 show that eight persons can handle 370 

 cans of peas in a day, while five per- 

 sons can handle 330 cans of tomatoes. 

 .\ day's work for one person with a 

 home-canning plant is as follows: 

 I'eas, 120 pounds; beans, 80 pounds; 

 tomatoes, 370 pounds; peaches, 340 

 pounds; apricots, 220 pounds; pie cher- 

 ries, 20 gallons; flesh-colored cherries, 

 4,50 pounds; raspberries, 60 crates; 

 strawberries, 10 crates. The cost of 

 producing canned stuff is as follows 

 per case: Peas, $1.89; beans, *1.57; to- 

 matoes, .¥1.73; corn, $1.91; peaches, 

 $1.86; apricots, $2.21; raspberries, $1.64; 

 dewberries, $1.61; loganberries, $1.66, 

 and Royal Ann cherries, $2.12. The 

 total average cost was $1.73 a case, 

 while the wholesale price was $2.20. 

 The average profit was $114 per acre. 



J. R. Shinn, agriculturist for Spokane 

 County, spoke on the value of apple 

 pomace as a food for dairy cows. He 

 submitted tables showing that its food 

 value was practically the same as corn 

 silage when fed fresh. It can be kept 

 fresh in ordinary silos. 



T. J. Newbill of the Department of 

 .\griculture submitted a number of 

 working specimens of home-canning 

 plants used in boys and girls' club 

 work, and told what some chil- 

 dren were accomplishing with similar 

 plants. He lauded the work of the Spo- 

 kane County Agriculturist in starting 

 boys' apple clubs and gave the state 

 credit for having started the first club 

 for children in the United States. 



.1. H. Morton of Portland read a tech- 

 nical paper on the construction and op- 

 eration of an evaporating plant. He 

 showed drawings of a model two-tun- 

 nel drier. His paper brought out many 

 questions. 



H. C. Gore of the Fruit and Vegetable 

 Utilization Laboratory of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture spoke on the new 

 apple by-products, condensed cider and 

 I'ider syrup. Samples were shown and 

 the method of making explained. For 

 condensed cider a tank of cider is fro- 

 zen solid, the chunk of cider ice broken 



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