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Fruit .—Most of the canned fruit sold in Colorado comes from 
California, some of it from states east. There is a great opportunity 
for the fruit growers of western Colorado not only to supply the de¬ 
mand for canned fruit in Colorado, but the demand for the best quality 
in many other states. 
Colorado canned fruit, when properly prepared, is as much sup¬ 
erior in flavor to canned fruit from other sections as Colorado fresh 
apples and peaches surpass those from other states. Only a small 
proportion of the fruit trees in the fruit sections of Colorado have 
reached the age of bearing, and in a few years the fruit output of 
the State will be increased many fold. 
As fruit production increases, the canning industry can be grad¬ 
ually established, and the knowledge and skill acquired to produce a 
canned product uniform and equal in quality to that of our fresh 
fruits. 
Corn .—The best grade of canned sweet corn comes from Maine. 
The bulk of this product shipped into Colorado comes from Iowa, 
Missouri and other states in the corn belt. 
A few thousand cans were put up at Fort Lupton, Colorado, in 
1909. In most of the tillable sections of Colorado the nights in sum¬ 
mer are too cool for the best growth of sweet corn. The Arkansas 
Valley and the warmer sections of the Western Slope have conditions 
well adapted to the growing of sweet corn for canning, except the 
damage from boll worms in the ear. In some seasons the worm 
damages almost every ear, and in other seasons the damage is very 
slight, but the uncertainty prevents the growth of the sweet corn in¬ 
dustry. 
7 'omatocs .—Experts estimate that 7,200,000 cans of tomatoes 
were eaten in Colorado in 1909, one-half of which were shipped into 
the State. Most of the tomatoes shipped into the State came from 
the corn belt, though large shipments were mad'e from California, and 
from as far east as New York. 
Fifty thousand cases of tomatoes were shipped into Colorado 
from Utah. These tomatoes were grown under conditions almost 
identical with those found in the fruit sections of western Colorado. 
Tomatoes do well in several sections of Northeastern Colorado 
and the soil and climate of a large proportion of the Arkansas Valley 
and of the Western Slope fruit sections are suitable for growing large 
yields of tomatoes of good quality. 
The industry should grow until most of the canned tomatoes 
used in the State are a home product, and the quality that can be 
produced in Colorado will find a good market in m^ny other states. 
The objection made by retail grocers and by consumers to toma¬ 
toes canned in Colorado is that they are not uniform in quality. Sev¬ 
eral cases may be as uniform in character and of as good quality as 
the best or the most expensive brands of eastern canned tomatoes, 
while in the same shipment, from the same factory, will be other 
cases that contain cans whose contents are watery, often to a serious 
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