. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 4 any business enterprise that is not prof- itable will soon perish. With this idea in view, if we can organize a big, strong canning and preserving company and have a management with a heart, we can not only stimulate the industry and de- velop it in an orderly way, but we can at the same time refrain from trying to purchase frotn the producer below the cost of production, and at the same time keep orderly control of the industry so that the jobber and retailer will not ex- act too much spread between the pro- ducer and the consumer. With the right kind of
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 4 any business enterprise that is not prof- itable will soon perish. With this idea in view, if we can organize a big, strong canning and preserving company and have a management with a heart, we can not only stimulate the industry and de- velop it in an orderly way, but we can at the same time refrain from trying to purchase frotn the producer below the cost of production, and at the same time keep orderly control of the industry so that the jobber and retailer will not ex- act too much spread between the pro- ducer and the consumer. With the right kind of business men in control of an enterprise of this kind, it should become a wonderful asset for the Pacific Northwest, and I am hopeful that the canning company that we have in mind mav prove to be that kind of an organization. BETTER FRUIT pany, Tacoma; Henry Rhodes, presi- dent of Rhodes Company, Tacoma, and W. H. Paulhamus, president of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers' Can- ning Company. The new corporation, which proposes putting the fruit and berry canning in- dustry on a stable basis, backed by sound financial and business leadership. May, 1921 was organized at a series of meetings at Seattle and Portland last month. The organization committee includes bank- ers, financiers and businessmen promi- nent in affairs of Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. The board of directors in its permanent form, will consist of sixteen men, with eight from Washington and eight from Oregon. Methods of Training Bush Fruits By J. L. Stahl, Horticulturist, Weitern Washington Experiment Station greens are allowed to overlap 3 or 1 feet on the trellis, but beyond that they are usually cut back. Raspberries STRAWBERRIES need no training except to control runners. If the hill system is used all of the runners except just around the hill will be kept off. Where the narrow matted row system is followed a strip of 15 or 18 inches the length of the row will be allowed to fill with runner plants and a
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