White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-07-11
cANNERY

CANNERY
Present trends indicate that the development Of
small community industries which will provide
part time employment for local worknen and util-
ize the surplus farm products is essential to the
prosperity of the farmer.
Changes in the agricultural markets, at home
and abroad, make it essential that markets be
found for surplus produce so that it will not COM
pete with the fresh produce markets, thus keep
ing the prices at high level while allowing moth
ing to go to waste.
Destruction of farm produce is, perhaps, essen
tial at times, and it will have steadying inhu-
on low market prices, but at best it is tenn
porary and emergency expedient. New markets,
such available through the canning of sur
plus produce are the only permanent remedy.
This valley is able to produce many crops of SUI
perior quality to those grown in other regions The
long growing season provides us with advan-
tage that few other sections can boast
Under the present system of marketing, these
advantages cannot be utilized to their full extent
AS soon as other produce comes on the market
the price drops to a point where the transporta
ton cost is prohbitive, and the grower must allow
his produce to rot, or take a loss on every box.
A local cannery is the obvious solution to this
problem Starting with asparagus early in the
spring, such plant could be kept busy all season,
processing such produce as sour and semi-sweet
cherries berries, tomatoes, peaches and apricots
and other fruits and vegetables.
During the past, several efforts have been made
to secure cannery, but financing and other prob
LENS have proved too large barrier Under the
federal relief program, it is now possible for
group OF producers to form cooperative group,
primarily for the purpose OF providing canned
goods for their winters use, although all surplus
goods be sold the open market. Such
group is able to borrow sufficient money from the
4n.
If such loan can be secured here it will do
great deal of good for the entire valley, and for
every individual, whether directly interested in
the cannery or not. 1t is an opportunity which may
mean great deal to the future of the valley and
the men who have spent the past month in organ
lzlng cooperative group to build cannery
should receive the whole hearted support of every
one.
The set-up is unusually beneficial. Primarily
relief movement growing out of the canning cen
ters which we're operated last year to which wo-
men could bring their fruits and vegetables and
preserve them in pressure cookers under the SUI
pervsion of skilled home economists, the basis of
this later development is still intended as an aid
to the needy. But it goes far beyond merely put
ting up home garden SURPRISES for winter use
It is community enterprise the potentialities
of which can only, at this time and if the project
goes through contemplated, be guessed. The
Spokesman has long expounded the principal that
of the roads to prosperity for this valley runs
from truck gardens crowded with the green veg
etables which reach their luscious maturity so
early here, to cannery which will preserve the
SURPRISES after the first profitable bloom has been
taken off the early market
In the future, with cannery right here in this
valley it is possible that soft fruits and vegetables
may return the growers safe margin Of profit,
year in and year out.