The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-05-11
BY.PRODUCTS COM.
MITTEE REPORT OUT

"a public statement by the North.
west By Products Board.)
The enduring prosperity of the north
west apple industry depends upon the
systematic development of all avenues
of marketing. This includes every
thing from making cider and vinegar
out Of culls to marketing the highest
classes of apples in fancy pack ages.
One large necessity of the situation is
that we follow the lead of the apple
growers Of New York and California,
who have made distinct success of
marketing a large part Of their tree
fruits in evaporated form. We must
develop an evaporated apple business
to provide for better grades of the
culls, and for many of the apples now
sold in the G grade. No industry can
make money where each year it fails
to sell large percentage of its prod
ucts. Quantities of the G grade apples
must be evaporated in order that the
pressure on the market in heavy crop
years may not demoralize prices for
the fancy and extra fancy grades.
The immense new acreage coming
into bearing, and the consequent pres.
sure on the market will awaken grow
ers to the Importance of the evaporat-
ing industry, and the next three or four
years will certainly see the building of
great numbers of plants.
This wholesale going into a new in
dustry is likely to result in building
many unsuitable plants and much waste
of money. There is also grave danger
that the industry itself will receive
serious setback by reason Of the large
amount Of poor quality. poorly graded
fruit put on the market and the indis-
criminate competition between plants
new to the business.
To help the fruit growers Of the
northwest intelligently to meet this
situation the By-Products Board, which
consists Of W. II. Paulhamus, chairman,
Puyallup, WASH; Truman Butler. Hood
River. Ore. M. J. Higley, Payette.
Idaho; J. A. Westerlund. Medford,
Ore.; J. L. Hughes, North Yakima,
WASH; Frank Reeves, Wenatchee,
Wash. H. M. Sloan, Florence, Mont.
D. A. Snyder, Dayton, Ore. Paul H.
Weyrauch, Walla WalIa. WASH. Cor.
don c. Corbalay, secretary, Spokane,
has been giving this matter careful at
tention.
1t has been the desire of the BY.
Products committee to protect the
growers from investing in impractical
evaporating plants, or too expensive
evsporating plants. The apple industry
could not be greatly assisted il it was
necessary to sell at cents pound
kaA koA ~kr
to produce.
Your Board recommends that no in
dividual evaporating plants be con-
structed by individual fruit growers
along the stack" plan in such general
use in California. Experience has
shown that these plants generally pro-
duce poor quality of fruit at high
cost of operation. The grower has no
dependable market for his fruit. and
will seldom receive as good return for
his apples as il he had sold them to an
evaporator or put them through CO.
operative plant.
Evaporating plants in the northwest
states should be built by growers hav.
ing large quantities of fruit, by fruit
growers associations. by neighborhood
groups of growers or by individuals to
serve neighboors. No plant should be
undertaken that does not plan its build
ings and equipment with the idea of an
ultimate daily capacity of not less than
600 bushels of apples. Experience has
shown that plants with total capac-
ity smaller than this size are not truly
economical, although all plants should
be arranged In units to permit parts OF
the capacity to be operated.