The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25
.RUlT WASTED
IN CALIFORNIA

francisco, Cal, Oct. 16.-Mil-
'' - mounds of the choicest kinds
pop ss,,it-food that might feed our
O - Ian Allies as well as our own
'u ns-are going to waste in the
It'ts Of california today. Such is
'~ tote of affairs as disclosed by !.
% : - If the states industrial con-
49, : now nearly completed ~ the
g GAM Industry league of California.
ps @Tsos of thousands of dollars
..b Of the choicest tomatoes are
WV WV rotting on the ground of the
we .sos in this neighborhood toGay,"
sample of one report out oe six
irod bv the league through It's
,roes of the industrial situation of
=, tate. The report came from a
..,I board of trade. The report
\ ..Indes: local people have SUBJ
'.sbsd $500 for stock in any COM
\ ,,,y which will come to the neigh
t,,sood and start vegetable cam
.r 10 take care of the thousands
y thousands Of dollars worth of to-
~.tops and other vegetables which
n t,l.v are useless to the growers for
Il, If a cannery or transportation |
facilities"
Among the kinds of fruits and
vscptables which the census shows to
|. roing to waste on the ranches are
|& ,sacbes apples berries, olives, nuts.
,snges lemons, figs and dates.
MARI of the communities in which
Asp foods are going to waste state
hat "there is plenty of good labor
,silsble if we only had a local pack
No house, or cannery."
IN a large number of the commu-
rjtg heard from there is no orga-
,ud board of trade or other COM
nrcal clearinghouse of that nature,
I'M the information has been received
|per the signatures of the editors of
na newspapers.
Numbers of the replies make lively
BVpes for government aid" in the
Immediate establishment of factories,
nnenes or other establishment for
b making of apple butter, cider
htded), vinegar, sugar from beets,
gay from grapes, tomato canneries,
aeup bOttlers, olive bottlers, peach
hi pear canneries, cherry preserves,
fHi fruit and vegetable plants, nut
q RcEers, candied fruit works, MARINA
be factories, lemon extract bottlers,
nge and grape juice bottlers.
Other sections report that farming
elements cannot be bought any,
here in suffirient quantities to take
p Of the bumper crops, while in
la sections the existing fruit and \
saaOle canneries are compelled to
ht their possible outputs by the in
putty to secure baskets and boxes to
care Of the output. Fully a
a communities deplore the lack
box and basket factories, while
Places report the need for factor
% manufacture small implements
taming.
iA1e are today in California a.
1se lsh Gamers. Each is pack
upwards Of so tons, yet while each
A'nng to its capacity, thousands \
sns Of the fish go daily to the
ilzeH.
'iu Iced 50 high that milk and
sfe gong up in prices, many
1aAueS report that if only the
rallent or private capitalists will
r analfa meal" mills they
y De doing the whole country a
iaVor, as well as make money n
W Investments. From several n
''s come apeals for more cot B
.aS 10 take care of the crops
Bong to waste.
1as everyone of the communf-
!" cry for canneries and
pants report themselves as
& !, ' back new enterprises with II
N'c Inducements AMI to sub
w large blocks of stock in the
Companies. NA - '''e
n SuS Of the Home Industry III
: sflll in progress and when
:. ! will be placed at the dis 81
1'e state council of defense 81
s available free to the pub +!