Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
IMPROVES DRYING METHODS

Oregon Man lnvents New Process
Which Will Revolutionize Industry.
A feature which created great in
terest not only among growers, but
the general public at large, at the ap-
pie show given under the auspices of
the Oregon State Horticultural society
at Portland, was display of dried
fruits and vegetables made by Pro.
fessor w. H. SWEET, of that city.
Professor SWEET had on display about
one hundred and thirty varieties of
fruits and vegetables which he had
prepared by his method of evaporation.
Unusual interest was attached to
this display, not in the fact that these
products were dried, but in the claim
that by process of evaporation which
Professor SWEET employs, only the wa
ter is eliminated, and that therefore
these products are always the same, as
far as food values and fiavors are con-
cerned, as they were before being
evaporated, only the addition, by alb
sorption, of the percentage of water
extracted being necessary to return
them to their fresh state. Professor
Swett's products and the machine
which he employs has been on display
in Portland at his home for the past
year and is attracting widespread at
tention.
Likfresh Dinner.
In order that these products should
receive practical test, for "the proof
of the pudding is in the eating there
Of" 'six-course dinner composed of
these products, was prepared by Mrs.
Geo. K. Rogers and served to the
judges and officials of the apple show.
The following was the menu:
Soup Clam broth. Fish - Fried
smelts, Goldfish balls with tomato
sauce. Meat-Stewed beef. Vegeta-
bles-Mashed potatoes, green peas,
string beans, corn on cob. Salad
Vegetable salad with French dressing,
salad consisted of beets, apples, beans,
peas, onions and tomatoes. Deserts
Berry jelly, consisting of blackberries,
black raspberries, strawberries, cher
ries and nuts. Strawberry shortcake;
loganberry and apple pies; cherry rails
ins. Coffee.
The entire meal including clam
broth, fish and meat consisted of Ore
gon Likfreshed products, except bread,
butter, nuts and coffee.
Among those present at the dinner
were: Honorable Homer C. Atwell
and Frank W. Power, president and
secretary respectively of the Oregon
State Horticultural society; Professor
H. E. Van Dieman, horticultural ex-
pert from Washington D. c., official
Judge of the apple show; Professor c..
|. Lewis, head of the horticultural de-
partment, Oregon Agricultural college
and Professor W. H. SWEET, the in
ventor of the Likfresh system of food
preservation.
Here was given practical demon
stration of this remarkable invention.
Those who partook of this dinner state
that in no case could they have told
that these foods from the fresh pro-
ducts. What this invention means to
the agricultural and horticural dis
tricts of the country is beyond the
power of the imagination to portray.
The loss that is being sustained by
fruit and vegetable growers because of
their inability to economically care for
their products. and inability to obtain
market during the glutted season,
runs into hundreds of thousands of dol
lars annually on the Pacific Coast alone.
Not only can these losses now be con-
served but an even greater loss can
also be avoided. That which is now
being wasted is a portion of what the
ground produces but there are in every
fruit and vegetable growing district,
vacant tracts, lots and city blocks
which can be thrown into cultivation
and the products therefrom taken care
of by this system. These vacant lands
represent a complete financial loss to
the several communities. The con-
serving of present waste and the bring
ing into use of idle lands will add tre-
mendously to the population of the
fruit and vegetable producing districts
of the country and will in turn have an
enormous influence on land values.
To the residents of arid lands or far
away barren countries; to the armies
and navies and merchant marine and
also for the city resident, this inven-
tion opens up tremendous advantages.
When the products and lands now
wasted are conserved, these consumers
may have, not inferior canned or old