The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-21

provement. The refrigerator COM
panies themselves, he says. and they
are the railroads. are among the most
alert in adopting results proven by
the government. Two railroads in
California are this year expending a
million dollars in cold storage plants
or rather plants for proceeding fruit.
Better cars are being constructed. The
new refrigerators have insulation
from so to 100 per cent greater than
the old cars.
Problems of This State.
Mr.. Powell pointed out that pears.
wrapped, and placed in an iced car
would travel half way across the con-
tinent before they were cooled out
and during that time ripening or de-
cay was in progress. He outlined the
government experiment systems and
told of a portable proceeding plant
capable of sending 10000 cubic feet
of air at a temperature 10 degrees
above zero through a car each min
ute of time. This plant is installed in
an ordinary refrigerator car and can
be used to pre-cool cars alongside.
The great Washington problems as
he sees them, are those o- caring for
the soft fruits under transportation
so as to extend the distance to which
they can be shipped and delivered in
good condition. and other other prob
lem of putting the apples and such
fruits properly into storage. with
these are allied problems which
would be worked out with them.
Distribution Must BE Perfected.
Distribution is one of the things to
be worked to a greater degree of per-
lection in the fruit business. Length
ening the time in which fruits may be
marketed, improving the condition in
which they can be marketed, reduc-
ing the loss and improving the net
this distribution. Blame for fruit
losses which were previously placed
on the storage man are no longer
placed there, Mr.. Powell said. 1t rs
recognized now that the losses in
storage or in transit are largely, if not
wholly, due to conditions arising from
handling and antedating the time
when the fruit was turned over either
to the storage man or the rransporta-
ton company. Cooperation, in Cali
fornia, has taken the handling of
fruit out of the hands of the growers
and placed it into the hands of the
associations. These now pick anc
pack the fruit. cool it and ship it ana
the result is that the Orange business,
as an example, is on a paying basis,
where formerly it was not. Mr. Stu
benrauch has determines mat the
tine which ia blp ora nos can he mar
keted can be extended from 40 and
60 to so and 1870 days.
Many Interesting Details.
Mr.. Powell told a moss of interest
ing matters He told of men who are
going away back on the hills, above
the high line bitches and pumping
water 300 feet above the bitches tn
irrigate their tracts. They can do this
at $50 per acre. He told of a visit to
California of AZ orange growers from
Florida who for 10 days were the
guests of the California growers and
who We're told everything it was pos
sible to tell about orange production
and handling because it is recognized
that poor Florida oranges in the mar.
kets derange the California profit
and upset the trade for the whole
country.
For himself and his associate ana
for the secretary of agriculture Mr..
Powell expressed the deepest interest
in the Washington situation. He him.
self is an apple grower and the son
of an apple grower and Mr.. Wilson.
he said is the biggest agricultural
patriot in America"