Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-24
CANNERIES
Needed to Preserve the Large
Fruit Crops.


Major F. E. Holsinger, one of the promin-
ent horticulturists from Kansas and dele
gate to the American Association, which
convened at Riverside, was interviewed
during the sessions held there by HERALD
representative for the purpose of securing
the opinion, observations, ETC., gathered
during the months sojourn in the State
relative to his views of California in gen
eral. "well." said the Major, smiling, "it
occurs to me that you have given me rather
a broad subject for SO limited an interview.
But first let me ask you question: Why
are you people so solicitous as to the i'm
preston strangers entertain OF your .coun-
try? | do believe you are so intoxicated
with the delightful climate that you wish
an expression from every tourist IN order
to assure yourselves that it is all
reality and not dream. But of
course you wish to know what l think in
particular of your fruit industries. If that
| Is it am free to say they are simply wor-
derful. Our entire party have been exper-
iencing series of surprises ever since it
entered the State. We have constantly
been saying with every possible assurance,
This is the best;' but we have found, YER
lily, the first to be last and the last first, and
presume, no matter where we might have
started in, we would have found 1t just tic
| same. From what we have seen, question
| as to the success of fruit growing in this
State has never for moment been enter
| tanned, but we have constantly been ask
ing ourselves, What will they dc. with their
| fruit?' 1t appears to me, too. that in the
face of the immense possibilities in horti-
culture in this State, and the rapidity with
extensively planted in orchards and vine
yards, that 1t is a question the fruit grower
should be early in considering. l have
heard it said that California was capable of
and / fnd that there is foune
dation for the assertion. 1 find
however, that even now thousands of tons
| OF bothI peaches, prunes. grapes, and espe-
cially figs, are allowed to decay under the
trees. I have noticed that wherever can
| neries and evaporating establishments have
| been erected, they have been successfully
| and profitably operated, and why there are
not more of them am unable to under
stand. certainly think there could be no
| better investment in this country than in
| an establishment of that kind. Tomatoes, /
am told, ripen here from the 1st Of June
until the LIST of january, and yet they are
not extensively grown, for the reason, as l
believe, that there are no canneries, or very
| few. In Kansas we find it profitable to can
| tomatoas, where the months in which they
can be produced are limited to about three.
In Riverside ] notice the ground in the
which could all be utilized at a can
merry and made into the most delicious
and wholesome jellies and marmalades, but
| l am told that nothing is done with this
fruit understand that tons upon tons of
| fruit in deciduOus orchards go to waste in
| the same manner, when with proper facili-
ties it might all be saved while yet pure.
But all this is nothing, from what under
stand, compared with the fruit that is lost
| which is marketable and in every way first
| class. People here generally admit that
| they have outgrown themselves, both in
the cities and country, but I think in
nothing are they so much outgrown as in
the fruit industry. There are millions in it,
but undoubtedly everything should advance
| together. AS it is now, consider the lack
of large canning factories and evaporators
the things that most retards that great
| industry"