. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. It is the MOST EFFICIENT EUAPORATOR It dries "Fancy" Dried Fruit of all kinds in record time, which brings "Fancy" prices, with low^ production cost. Mone "iust Uke ; Mone "lust as ; It makes Apples at 8c dry pound worth $15 per green ton. mquire PERFECT CONTROL OF TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY AND CIRCULATION. 1005 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PORTLAND, OREGON- The Outlook for Prunes THE subject of this article is not in any sense new, and in approacli- ing it one naturally wonders what new thing can be said. Perhaps a look behind
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. It is the MOST EFFICIENT EUAPORATOR It dries "Fancy" Dried Fruit of all kinds in record time, which brings "Fancy" prices, with low^ production cost. Mone "iust Uke ; Mone "lust as ; It makes Apples at 8c dry pound worth $15 per green ton. mquire PERFECT CONTROL OF TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY AND CIRCULATION. 1005 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PORTLAND, OREGON- The Outlook for Prunes THE subject of this article is not in any sense new, and in approacli- ing it one naturally wonders what new thing can be said. Perhaps a look behind may give us some suggestion as to the possibilities of the future. Ore- gon prunes, like many other products possessing much merit, have passed through their i)erio(l of storm and the producers have had their times of trial and tribulation. Their dark days, how- ever, were not of long duration and niav be said to have begun and ended between the years 1902 and 1904. The cause may be attributed to over-pro- motion in the sale of lands and planted young orchards at the very inception of the prune-growing idea in the North- west, or perhaps to be more correct, we should say undei'-developnient of the markets in anticipation of the com- ing new product. It was not a small task to introduce, or rather to force upon the markel, a competitor of the California French ]3runes, which at that lime had just about reached the height of its popularity. The Oregon prune was not wanted by the wholesale merchants of this coun- try and there was good business rea- soning in their objection to placing in Iheir stock another variety of prune en- tirely different, unknown, and accord- ing to their argument of doubtful qual- ity. The result was that for a time when the majority of i)rune orchards had reached the stage of full bearing that there was overproduction, meas- ured by the demand. In fact there was no demand. The demand had yet to be created. It would be a long and not uninteresting story
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