The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-03-18
TO CARE FOR ORCHARD
BY-PRODUCTS
Many Plants to be Established
in Northwest During
Coming Year.

That an unusually large number
of canneries, eyaporators and other
kinds of fruit product plants will be
established in Idaho and other north
western states is evident from the
condition of the fresh fruit market
| The situation is one of importance
and is so viewed by the northwest
| by-product board of the Fruit Pro-
ducts congress, which has issued the
following statement on the situation,
which will be of interest to all fruit
growers.
The fresh fruit situation makes it
inevitable that very great number
of canneries, evaporators and other
kinds of fruit product plants will be
established in the northwest during
the next "a months.
There is great need for many
of these if the districts east of the
mountains are to maintain their fruit
business upon a sound basis.
Unless controlled, most of these
plants will be started wrong. Many
will be badly managed and many will
be organized where there is no need
for them. The result will be fail
ures and much needless loss of money.
While this is going on, the market
will be demoralized because the bad
ly managed plant is usually just as
badly off in its selling. The result
will be serious injury to the business
of the existing plants. All this will
take place unless the situation is
controlled.
The Northwest By-Products board
believes that its function is just as
much to help control the general sit
uation as it is to help communities
start plants that will take care of
their surplus fruit.
In that work we need the help and
cooperation of every existing can
merry, evaporator, dried fruit paker
or other form of plant.
The pesent industry should be as
closely tied together as possible so as
to establish standards of pack, rea-
sonably uniform price and cooper
ative reaching out for new markets.
Once that is done, the industry will
be stabilized and our committee can
work with the fruit products plants
toward helping take care of the sur
plus fruit in the districts where it
is now going to waste.
Many of these districts are prob
ably not ready for plants. They have
not volume enough. With united
strength we can work with the rAl-
roads to get a low express rate for
berries or freight rate for fruit that
will permit the assembling of this
stuff at existing plants until the dis
trict develops an output that justifies
a cannery or evaporator. In those
districts where there is manifest
need for plants at once, the commit
tee can help promote these in such a
way that they will be operated right
and their product can be sold side by
side with that of the existing plants
and the market will not be demoral-
ized. This will help the new plant
and will protect the old ones. Per-
maps the whole situation cannot be
worked out as smoothly as that. A
great deal of difficulty will be expert
enced in getting the existing plants
nto any kind of an agreement. Also
Irresponsible promotions will be start
ID that nobody can control. But the
committee believes that, with an or
yanization of all the existing plants,
t can do great deal toward controll- '
ng the situation. This general prob
EN- was discussed at the recent con-
'erence in Portland. Other small dis
;rict meetings are being held.
In the meantime, we wish to ask I
you to think over the situation and
frankly and fully write US just what ]
you believe ought to be done. The {
nearer we can come to all agreeing s
IN something, the better off we will &
Ill be.