The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-10-15
SAMPLES OF
CANNED BERRIES
Strawberries from Different
CannerieS are Compared.
Oregon Ideal Surpasses an Others shown IN
Color. Flavor and Firmness Of Fruit.
A Word Beafer.

Saturday afternoon a number OF MEM
bers OF the Salem chamber Of commerce,
businessmen and newspaper men left
their avocations at the busiest time Of
the week and went to the Willamette
hotel TO witness a test OF canned straw
berries as a commercial product. There
we're opened FIVE kinds Of canned straw
berries in the presence Of the gentlemen
invited and they were poured out in
large glass fruit dishes such as are used
at the Willamette hotel to serve canned
fruit on the tables. Landlord Conuer al
so kindly furnished small fruit dishes to
sample the product.
Among those present were Secretary
Thielsen Of the Chamber of Commerce,
Lord Reynolds Of the State Board,
President Fletcher and Secretary Davey
Of the Salem Press club, A. Bush Of the
banking house Of Ladd K Bush, repres-
entatiyes Of thePortland andSalem dali.
les, Mr.. Walker the Rurseryman, Mr..
Weaver strawberry grower, and about
dozen other gentlemen. The canned
berries opened we're one can from Sa-
lem store, such as are generally sold by
retailers, one can Of the fret and second
grade Of berries put up this year at the
Allen Canning Co. plant at Salem, one
can OF the famous Hood River straw
berries, and a canof a new variety that
has been tested at Salem for several
years called the Oregon Ideal.
The large glass dishes showed the color
Of the canned product. Ordinarily can
ned strawberries have a mushy appear
ance when emptied out Of the can, and
are bleached out in color. The fruit 10
shapeless mess and has only little Of
the strawberry flavor left. The first can
opened had stood on the shelves a mum.
ber Of years and had all these qualities
in the highest degree. No one would
want to eat them as a relish or made in-
TO pies on their appearance and II is no
wonder people don't buy such an unin-
viting article.
The next one tasted by those present
we're the first and second grade Wilson
berries put up by the Salem cannery
under Mr.. Allen. They we're solder,
and had fine flavor, and for color, and
flavor are far superior to any canned
strawberries that are generally sold.
They are superior to any California can.
ned strawberries ever shown i'm this
market. A California canneryman told
Mr.. Allen recently that in quality these
berries easily surpassed anything put up
in California, because they had to pro-
duce their berries by irrigation and
could not come up to the Oregon berry
in color or flavor and in solidity.
The fourth can tasted was the justly
famous Hood River strawberry. This
surpassed the two cans put up by Mr..
Allen in size and color but Mr.. Aliens
berries surpassed the Hood River berry
in firmness Of texture and flavor-having
more fruit and acid quality than the
Hood River berry. This may be due to
the fact that the Salem berries were a
very fine crop this year, and again, are
produced without irrigation. All pro-
nounced the Hood River berry very fine
and indeed it takes the top market price,
81 900 cases having been shipped from
there east this year. IL has been made
great industry at that place.
The last berry to be tasted by the
committee was new berry that has
been grown for three years at Salem in
small way TO test it and produce II pos
sible the ideal berry Tor commercial can
ming. All present sampled it and agreed