CALIFORNIAN CANNED AND DRIED FRUIT INDUSTRY. 247 

A distinctive feature of the live stock census of the United 
Bar Horses States, wale was Ren in June of cals 
_in the year, is that in addition to enumerating 
teed Stuites: as on former occasions the live stock on 
farms, provision has been made on this occasion for the 
collection of statistics of live stock in the country generally. 
A special schedule has been provided in which all cattle, 
sheep, swine, horses, and mules in all cities and villages in 
transit or otherwise will be taken into account. This will 
include all horses and mules used by railway, tramway, 
omnibus and other companies, and private persons. 

The British Acting Consul-General at San Francisco 
States that in June, 1899, 26 of the 30 fruit 
Canned and Dried canning establishments in California 
Fruit Industry ' : 
of California. formed a combination under the name of 
: the California Fruit Canners’ Associa- 
tion. The joint capacity of these establishments is 2,110,000 
Bases cq uial to about 52,750 tons of fruit. Im order to effect 
a Saving in the working expenses, it is probable that only 14 
of the canneries will be employed, the other 12 remaining 
idle, instead of running part of the time, as was frequently the | 
Case on account ot lack of material. Certain fruits will be 
packed in special factories, whilst in order to decrease the 
cost of transportation the canneries located in the interior will 
be employed on the varieties of fruit growing in their respec- 
tive neighbourhoods. Articles of agreement, it is stated, have 
been signed, binding the members of the association to pay 
certain definite prices for the purchase of fruit from the 
growers, and fixing the selling price, which up to the present 
has not been advanced. 
In the dried fruit industry also growers have been consider- 
ing methods of co-operation in the disposal of their produce, 
and an organisation called the Californian Cured Fruit Asso- 
ciation has been formed to control and dispose of the produce. 
While it nominally includes all the dried fruit interests, it is 
