The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-25
FORTUNES IN EVAPORATION

AS the apple takes the lead in
quantity grown in Idaho, we will use
this fruit as a basis for estimating
the loss to this state, and to the
growers by the absence of evapora-
tors to care for the fruit that can
not be shipped for different reasons,
none of which makes them unsal-
able at the evaporation.
The estimated number of cars that
will be shipped this year is 5000;
this represents 70 per cent of the
apples grown which leaves loss
of about 1000 cars, equivalent to
10000 tons; for which the evaporation
would pay $40 per ton, and the
growers would get 100000 for what
is now waste and always will be un-
til evaporators are established. and
there will come day when orchards
will be pulled up as sure as the exist
ing conditions continue.
At the evaporating plant the APP
Piles are pared, cored, and sliced,
then spread no trays and put into
the evaporation, and when finished
they are sulphured to brighten them
and then they are ready for market
either in sacks or packed in boxes.
They should be graded so that the
larger can be packed as a choice
grade and the smaller ones sold as
a lower grade. If the owner of the
evaporation cares to stay in the bust
ness, he will be careful Ito so mark
the boxes that people will know they
are buying an apple of the same
quality but of smaller size; the
buyer must not be led to think that
he is getting from one packer for
less money the same grade an an
other packer asks more for.
The estimated prune crop will be
1000 cars, and one of the best post
ed prune men in the state says that
SO per cent should be evaporated and
in some localities will be, but in
many it will be lost, a complete
waste. The loss can be computed in
dollars and cents in the same manner
as with apples, only add SIS and even
$40 to the price per ton. This will
add another 100000 year to the
loss to growers, and when peaches,
pears. cherries, apricots and all the
small fruits are added, it is not a
stretch of the imagination to say that
the growers are losing $1,000,00O
annually.
Prof. Caldwell of the Washington
Agricultural college was detailed to
investigate and report on the best
method for the growers to adopt to
care for their fruits. After year,
he reported that there was a way
and that way was evaporation, as the
canning business required large capt.
tai and experts to handle it, while
any grower could establish an evapo-
rator and run it himself, and that
capital required was small, very
small, when the saving was consider
ed He recommended strongly that
where one man had not enough to
warrant building, two or more should
combine and do their own evaporat-
ing, then there could be no doubt |
as to the paying out.
Herein lies another advantage the |
producer of evaporated products has,
a big advantage over the shipper of !
fresh fruits: The latter pays the |
freight and the former does not. All
evaporated products are quoted (.
o. b. shipping point, so the producer
Is not worried on that score. Again,
he knows that his product will get
to the buyer in the same condition
It started in, and there will be no
discount for waste at destination
Capital is usually ready to invest
n anything that is good, and well
comes any manufacturing business
hat will help a community and in
,identally themselves, but as the
evaporation is comparatively new,
hey hold back, and the people that
ire the backbone Of the state are
Flowed to suffer enormous waste 1t
9 therefore urged on the growers
hat they combine and form their