Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-03
WHAT A COMMUNITY
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to year, there must be steady employ
ment for them for the larger portion of
the year. A Gamer could not afford to
hire three or four men for year and
lay out a years wages for only one
on two month Is work. A cannery, to be
made profitable, must be able to run
from May or June until the first Of
January, and unless the output during
that period is enormous, a longer run
is to be desired. AS with expensive but
efficient machinery, their use is adj
vantageous only for a very large out
Iut, and is most economical for the
largest output.
To give you an idea to what extent
cannery will sometimes go in PRO-
viding year around work for their ex-
perienced help / will cite few Of the
the operations of the cannery be-
tlcDging to the Eugene Fruit Growers
Association, which is managed by mr.
| j. o. Holt, who is rapidly becoming
| the "'Heinz of the North west" Ibis
factory begins on gooseberries in May,
Strawberries in June, cherries, logan
berries, raspberries, peas, beans and
cther midsummer vegetables in July
and August, tomatoes corn, beets, Iuash-
ed potatoes, turnlps, pumpkins, 81 lash,
green prunes, plums and apples in Sep
uember, October, November and Decem
Eer. and during the months of January
to May the experienced help is put
| tc running the box factory in connec-
| tion with the association, cutting and
making up boxes during the quiet
months for the coming rush season.
Some Of the men are also put to oper-
a;ing the spray plant in connection with
the association. The Eugene Pruit Grow
ers association has in the one associa-
ton o smaller duplicate of what Salem,
the largest fruit and vegetable pro-
duets district in the northwest, has in
its fourteen to sixteen privately own
ed plants. In addition to operating a
eannery, spray plant and box factory,
they also run a Loganberry juice plant
a 80 tunnel evaporator, a cider and
vinegar plant, bottling plant, and
dried fruit packing plant. They also
can loganberry juice and unfermented
apple juice. TO successfully operate
plant OF this kind requires highly skill
ed manager, "jack of all trades, in
other words, in charge of the operat-
ing department, and also highly de-
veloped sales department, and in these
very departments lie the greatest weak
nesses of cooperative canneries. This
can be easily proven by anyone inter
ested enough in the subject to look
into it. OF all the cooperative Gamer
les in the northwest there are only two
,,+b;ob bo1a raoebn1 anv oiva on5 mazda
any success of their venture. [ refer
to the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Grow
ers association of your state, and the
Eugene Fruit Growers association of
Eugene, Oregon. 1t is noticeable that
the managing heads Of both these as
sociations have been with them for
many years and have grown with the
business. A change of management in a
cooperative eannery often results dis
astrously, as highly trained specialists
in this line are almost impossible to get,
and manager without previous expcr-
ienee in that line is likely to make ths
same mistakes ON a larger and more dis.
pstrous scale as the former manager did
when the business was young. OF all the
canning business done in the United
S. ates only about $500, 100000 worth of
business is done by cooperative can
neries, according to bulletin put out
by the United States bureau Of com
merce, and about half of that businS SIS
is done by one association, the Puyal-
Inn & Sumner Fruit Growers associa
zion.
The nueleas for by-produets center
is usually a canning plant and a vine
gsr plant. After the establishment Of
a canning plant and vinegar plant #
tn, community grows, other plants of
various kinds will spring up as thay
are needed. A commercial club, or al
fruit growers association, which isl
81 metimes farmers commercial slab,
can be of great assistance in bringing
outside capital into community tul
build plant. Our association, the Sa
len Fruit Union has been the cause of
tie location Of over balf of the eaor-
nous fruit and vegetable products m
euatries in Salem, Oregon.
First survey should be made This
survey should include a number II
things, and 1 will take them up in the
order Of their Importance.
AVAILABLE RAW PRODECsS "A
list should be made showing practically
all of the fruit at present in b'trihg
which would be available fer loag time
contracts. Any plant which w0ald
come into community would hardly do I
50 on the prospects Of one year s run.
They must have assurance of a steady |
supply of materials year after year for
a period Of years. Any factory located
in community on a basis of one year 5
business viii either exact extortionate