. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. IQI7 Manufacture of Fruit Products Continued from page 7. the fruit business done there is carried on by Oregon paclcers. During the past year the loganberry-juice industry has made big strides and there are now thirteen loganberry - juice factories, which manufactured about 500,000 gal- lons of juice and paid the growers about $200,000. Total capital invested in plants, machinery and equipment approximately $250,000. The total crop of loganberries in the state this year was approximately 5000 tons fresh ber- ries, about seventy per cent of which was made into ju
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. IQI7 Manufacture of Fruit Products Continued from page 7. the fruit business done there is carried on by Oregon paclcers. During the past year the loganberry-juice industry has made big strides and there are now thirteen loganberry - juice factories, which manufactured about 500,000 gal- lons of juice and paid the growers about $200,000. Total capital invested in plants, machinery and equipment approximately $250,000. The total crop of loganberries in the state this year was approximately 5000 tons fresh ber- ries, about seventy per cent of which was made into juice. There is at least one unfermented apple-juice factory in the state which put up quite a large quantity of unfermented apple juice. I understand their Olympia, Washington, plant used five or six thousand tons of cull apples this season. There are at least ten vinegar plants in the slate, although there may be a few more with which I am not acquainted. I am not familiar with the details of this busi- ness, so cannot give any information as to output, money distributed or capital invested. BETTER FRUIT Page ij "Use Your Tractor" "Help your neighbors" is the keynote of a special appeal to tractor owners issued today by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carl Vrooman. "Every farmer who owns a tractor," he says, "owes it to his country this spring to do all the custom or exchange work he can do without neglecting his own work. Every hour that his tractor would otherwise be idle it ought to be at work helping a neighbor who is be- hindhand with his plowing or harrow- ing. Make your outfit work from dawn to dark; make it work all night if vou have enough operators to fill the shifts. The acreage to be harvested this fall hangs on the plow. Don't let an acre that might otherwise be planted go un- titled because your tractor is in the shed. Help your neighbors and thus do your part in strengthening the allied lines on the battle fronts of
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