The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-03-02
new GOODS
ON MARKET
SPRAY COMPANY ADDS PRODUCTS
DiSinfeCtant Already on Market, Cream
Whip Will Follow Spray Material
Outlook This Year Good

A new concern, The Western Lab
oratories Corporation, has been organ
4 lied here as subsidiary of the Hood
! River Spray Co. to manufacture house
| hold pharmaeeuticals and food products.
! The company has already launched on
/ the markets a disinfectant, known as
Chloricide, which is sold in small bot
ties for household use and in larger
containers for hospitals.
A second product, pink fluid, which
| it is declared will enable the house
wife to whip successfully ordinary
cream, is being prepared for sale.
This product, placed in convenient size
bottles will be distributed in display
cartons, enabling the grower or phar-
macist to place the whipping fluid on a
counter here it will attract the shop
per. The chemistry department of the
spray plant is now working on harm
less bleaching preparation.
At present the new corporation is
owned entirely by the spray company,
although eventually it may be ex-
ownership may prevail.
F. A. Olmsted and A. B. Bennett,
chief owners of the spray concern,
state that they hope by adding the
new department to keep an all-year
payroll in the city. The manufactur-
ing of spray is part-year task. and
yet it requires highly skilled labor.
The company has just added to its
force j. Brevet, chemist of Holland,
who will spend his time on laboratory
research work and as general plant
foreman. The laboratory provided for
the spray plant will be utilized in de-
veloping products for the new depart
ment.
The spray company reports that the
volume of their spray business will
be materially increased this season.
Lime-sulphur and miscible oil spray
will be manufactured for distribution
in other orchard sections as we'll as in
Hood River. The efficiency of the
local miscible oil, known as Dormoil,
which in experiments in various north |
western sections has been found far
ahead of other similar products, will |
result, it is said, in its fairly general |
use this spring.
The local mscible oil, in a test in |
Montana last year, where six other oil, |
were used, gave far superior results. |
Two micsible oil sprays are applied by
growers each season. On the first the |
Hood River spray was 1873 per cent
efficient and TIA on the second. The
highest record of the other sprays was
63 per cent, and one ran as low as Is
per cent. The average efficiency of
the other sprays reached but 45.5. In
the Spokane district, the local oil gave |
an efficiency of SO per cent, according |
to experiment station reports.
The spray company last year shipped
IL carloads of oil spray. A total of l8
,ars of lime-sulphur was shipped to
)ther districts. Local growers last
year used 800 barrels of the oil. The
is now manufacturing casein.
tie, material mixed with spray to
ecure better spreading.
The spray concern, which has the
agency for the Friend
Sprayer Company, states that the gen
raj demand in all orchard districts
that growers in every section
will make heavy investments in spray
quipment. 0rchardists, it is said,
ave learned that much of their efforts
) wasted with sprayers of low power,
nd this season, acting on the advice
{ experiment stations, they are in
esting in up to date machinery.