Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-12
FRUIT IS,
GOING WASTE
IN CALIFORNIA
More Packing Houses Need
ed in Southern States
Labor is Plentiful.

i San Francisco. Oct. 12.-Millions
Of pounds of the choicest kinds of
fruit-food that might feed our Eu-
ropean Allies as we'll as our own
troops-are going to waste in the
state Of California today. Such is the
of affairs as disclosed by a CEN
sus Of the states industrial condi-
tons now nearly completed by the
Home Industry league of California.
Tens of thousands Of dollars
worth of the choicest tomatoes are ly-
ing rotting on the ground Of the
ranches in this neighborhood today"
is a sample of one report out Of six
received by the league through its
canvass of the industrial situation of
local board of trade. The report
concludes: Local people have sub
scribed $500 for stock in any COM
pany which will come to the neigh
,borhood and start a vegetable can
merry to take car of the thousands
and thousands of dollars worth Of to-
matoes and other vegetables which
today are useless to the growers for
lack of a cannery or transportation
facilities"
Among the kinds of fruits and veg
etables which the census shows to be
going to waste on the ranches are
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oranges, lemons, figs and dates.
II Many of the communities in which
these foods are going to waste state
that there Is plenty of good-labor
available-if we only had a local
packing house, or cannery."
In a large number of the commu
mites heard from there is no organ
lied board Of trade or other CONNER
cial clearinghouse Of that nature,
and the information has been receiv-
ed over the signatures of the editors
of local newspapers.
: Numbers OF the replies make live
ly appeal for government aid" in
the immediate establishment of fac
tories, canneries or other establish
ment for the making of apple butter,
cider (bottled), vinegar, sugar from
beets, sugar from grapes, tomato
canneries, catsup bottlers, olive bot
tiers, peach and pear canneries, cher
ny preserves, dried fruit and vegetable
plants, u packers. dandied fruit
works, marmalade, factories, le1pon
juice bottlers.
Other sections report that farming
implements cannot be bought any
where in sufficient quantities to take
care Of the bumper crops, while in
other sections the existing fruit and
vegetable canneries are compelled to
limit their possible outputs by the
inability to cur baskets and boxes
to take IRE Of the output. Fully a
dozen communities deplore the lack
of box and basket factories, while
six places report the need for factor
les to manufacture small Implements
Of farming. .-a .
There are today in California a.
separate fish Gamers. Each is pack
ing upwards of SO tons, yet While
each is packing to its capacity, thou
sands of IONS of the fish go daily to
the fertilizers.
With feed so high that milk and
meat are going up in prices, many
communities report that If only the
government or private capitalists will
establish alfalfa "meal" mills they
would be doing the whole country a
great favor. as well. as make money
on their investments. From ,several
sections come appeals for more cot
ton mills to take care of the crops
now goingsto waste.
Nearly every one Of the communf.
ties who cry for canneries and pack
ing plants report themselves as ready
to back new enterprises with special
civic inducements and to- subscribe
for. large blocks of stock in the new
companies.
The census Of the Home Industry
league is still in progress and when
completed it will be placed at the dis.
posal OF the state counciE OF defense
to be made available free to the pub
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