The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-07-13
CONSERVATION OF
go. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES -.
BY EVAPORATION
General Application

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Science is nothing until it becomes
applied science. Evaporating the
moisture from fruits and vegetables,
leaving the original flavor and tex
ture, is applied science so far as it
is possible for the inventor to apply
it; but the real application is in the
hands of the producer of the raw
product: and by offering a channel
by which he can save much of his
produce, it opens an avenue of es-
cape from low prices for his product
which is of shipping quality, there
by placing him in position to say
what this produce is worth.
Complicated machinery, excessive
cost, lack of expert knowledge of OPP
Grafton and possible markets, are fac
tors that have been in the way of
the growers making use Of systems
designated to relieve the great waste,
but these factors have all been re-
moved and there is now no reason
for the growers not building and OPP
Grating their own evaporators with
the same degree of success that the
big companies do. One of the draw
backs was financing, as so many had
not the cash to put into business;
but this, too, has been eliminted and
there is new way to finance these
worthy projects and sufficient time
lis given to meet their obligations.
I An evaporation in community is
home builder as it opens a market
for the small-acreage man to raise
a crop of vegetables and receive
price for this produce that will pay
for the land in comparatively short
time. 1t will enable him to buy ad-
ditional land as we'll as increase the
earning value of every acre of land
adjacent to it. 1t would also increase
the number Of small holdings and de-
crease the number of large holdings.
The evaporation is the best mort
gage payer in existence, and money
lenders would be as ready to advance
money to the owners of land close
ito an evaporation as they are now
willing to advance money to the
wheat grower is able to cultivate
large areas of land because he knows
that his market is waiting for him.
His product is an exaporated article
-evaporated by nature~-and some
thing that will not spoil on his
hands.
The fruit grower is in a position
to handle his product in exactly the
same manner. If one individual is
not able to erect an evaporation, two
or more can do so, and thereby be-
come independent of the people they
are now beholden to for any price
these buyers may be pleased to offer.
Again, intensified farming is being
urged as the one remedy against loss
to the farmer depending wholly on
one product. Here again the evap-
orator acts as an aid, for both fruits
and vegetables are used, and as some
crops can be rotated, earnings can
be had from each acre more than
once in a season; if some OF the
crops fail, the grower still has mar
ket for all the rest.
There are many girls and boys in
every community that would be glad
to get work during the vacation time
and the wages earned would help
many on their way thru school.
Many of this younger class OF labor
would be growers in small way,
and by selling their produce to the
evaporator company they would be
receiving double returns for their
labor.
It is urged that the growers form
mutual cooperative companies and
this handle their own produce. Cap
able men will be obtained as man
ayers for these evaporators. The
market is ready and the war has
created a demand that will always
exist as it is educating our own peo-
pie to the fact that there is such an
article as evaporated vegetables and
fruits that still retain their original
flavor and nutritive qualities, which
can be had at reasonable cost. ;
For any further information on /
this subject, write to State Depart
ment Of Farm Markets. |
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