Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1916-10-13


It care whether it was
snnnysack or a box,
Been handled in a san
neither it had just been
Is d container full of dirt
r. you liked prunes you
fhein and if you didn't
li6 " YOU didn' It eat them. May
~ RaB they were put up for you
\ y xI5sery store had something to
\ Hin the fact you didn't eat them
uss most Of you today consider
apnane a very delectable and ap-
aine fruit. The many ways of
culinary department of your home
eeparing this fruit may be partly
I6nsible Yor your liking it now.
svosr can eet away from the fact
Tile way Tho prune is put up for
1T tie present, that is the sani-
1, way ID which it is packed and
ped. has d whole lot to do with
N eating II. Like Uneeda biscuits
Qreen olives and baked beans, the
.Ie today il better than "the kind
her used to make"
81 the past ten or twelve years
II men have been studying the
u Of American people, and they
found that americans want the
Of foods, md want them put up
lean, sanitary, tasteful packages.
\ here II Where the prune man
u into d y own. He decided that
people 6idn't want to eat prunes
Muse th4y were packed into any
kind of container, and when the
lsr cola them over his counter, he
bis CUSTOMER sticky, dirty mess
,somethine that didn't look good
axh % ut. And the prune man
-sediately set to work to devise the
of getting prunes to the ultimate
hurner in such a way that they
lid appeal to his appetite and ere
4 demand for a product that was
rug On the market.
lnd Be succeeded. The packing
III turning out a clean, dry fruit,
touqh1y sterilized and free from
Examination of any sort, put up in
tandard package, neatly labeled,
the work for him, and today the
ne finds favor over all the civilized
our years ago, through the activi'
oR the Dallas Commercial club, the
K Armsby packing company was
uoed to put in plant at Dallas
faHe care Of the county's fast in
asinf crop Of prunes. This plant
S4p Pronounced success. 1t
p1Ed s1veral hundred thousands
dollars td prune raisers in Polk
lnty for their fruit, and has made
/ raising of prunes in this section
most important industry. 1t has
"a thousands of dollars to labor II
plant nd has given the city q
,ufation that great deal of money
ut for a1vertising could not have
lned for Il
rho puruose of the packing plan
" nlord the grower place tt
ndi1y 1ispose of his product and t'
3vi1o6 means of getting the fruu
the oonsumer in a clean. sanitar,
adIti1n. In this respect the Dalla
.1t r>n1ns among the foremost Of it
Ia oh the coast. When the drie'
unes come into the plant from tn
N orUhards in 100 pound sacks
h ~ first weighed and test mad
eoch eth sack, to see how tn
ait i 3rading. The grade of tn
lit, that Is the variation in size
the ba1ts Cor paying the grower
ON the 6aales the fruit goes int
Bvafors ai1d is carried to the thir
or where Il goes through a grade
,ich sorts out the various size
Ms machine sorts in sizes from a
erage Of 80 prunes to the pounC
un to 120's. Eight different size
q handled and the fruit is automati
NY dropped INTO its respective bin'
le italian prunes (the most commo
numerical variety raised in Pol
nnty) this year run from 3O's
s, about SO per cent of which al
From the grading bins the fruit
ken in carts to another scale wheI
4 again weighed, and a recor
sie Of eoch class. This record
bpt 70 cbsck up an estimate which
~ by he company early in II
IN when tie fruit is still green. I'll
utony'r sales are based on tins e
nofo After the second weighir
4 p1unes are dumped into bins o
11.on6 6oor where they renal
~ <&sy are wanted for packing.
~ most important operation
y r|@nt 5 the processing, for whic
u<rro to professors are used. II